Faculty
Professor Keld Laursen, Copenhagen Business School and Professor Peter Maskell, Copenhagen Business School

Course Coordinator
Professor Peter Maskell, Copenhagen Busienss School

Continuous publishing in academic journals has increasingly become not only a criterion for initial employment, subsequent tenure, and possible promotion, but also a necessity for most academics employed by universities and business schools. This course is aimed at helping PhD students getting a better grip on the process of publishing in the learned journals and will address questions such as: How to choose a journal? What constitutes a valuable contribution? In what style should it be written? How do I address an editor? What do the reviewers look for? At the end of the workshop, students will be familiar with the requirements for publishing articles in various types of outlets in management and related fields.

Day 1:
• What is a good scientific contribution?: Some criteria and examples
• How to write an introduction and to position a paper
• How to deal with reviews and reviewers
• Publishing strategies
• A young scholars’ first publication experience (with an invited guest)
• The pros and cons of publishing in edited volumes contra in journals

Day 2:
• A theory-testing or a theory-testing contribution?
• Web tools: Assessing journals and authors using ISI Web of Knowledge (in a Computer room).
• Editors' Round-Table (with two invited guests)
• Co-authorship, acknowledgements, credit-management

Lectures, group work and individual exercises. We expect that students have read the literature on the list of references and also we expect students to pose questions and relate the lectures and material to their own research and research fields. Active student participation is encouraged.

Course certificates will be granted based on attendance.

Journal of Management Studies Guidelines for Authors

Industrial and Corporate Change Guidelines for Authors

Regional Studies Guidelines for Authors

Huff, A.S. (1999): Writing for Scholarly Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage [this is the most important item on the reading list]

Floyd, S.W., Schroeder, D.M., Finn, D.M. (1994): "Only if I'm first author: Conflict over credit in management scholarship", Academy of Management Journal, 37(3): 734-747

Starbuck, William H (2003): “Turning lemons into lemonade: Where is the value in peer reviews?” Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(4): 344-351

Whetten, D.A. (1989): "What constitutes a theoretical contribution?", Academy of Management Review, 14(4): 490-495.

Applications should be sent as e-mail to:
Tuyala Bernardo Rasmussen
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics E-mail:tbr.ino@cbs.dk

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