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amj-review-process
Use when you need to understand or set expectations for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) editorial and peer-review process — desk review, the developmental multi-round R&R culture, and reading a decision letter. Explains the process and how to read decisions; it does not draft the response letter (amj-rebuttal).
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# Understanding the Review Process (amj-review-process)
## When to trigger
- Before submitting, to calibrate expectations about timeline and decision types
- A decision letter arrived and you need to interpret it (R&R vs. reject; major vs. minor)
- You are unsure how much weight reviewers vs. the action editor carry
- You want to plan a revision strategy before drafting the response (then go to `amj-rebuttal`)
> Editorial structure, named editors, and exact timelines change. Verify the current editorial team, policies, and turnaround on the official AMJ site; the norms below are durable. As of 2026-05-30: AMJ uses **blind review**, targets constructive **developmental feedback to authors within ~60 days**, and the incoming Editor-in-Chief is **Gary A. Ballinger (University of Virginia)**, whose team began receiving submissions on 1 July 2025.
## How AMJ review works (durable norms)
1. **Submission & routing.** The editor (or an associate/action editor) screens the manuscript and routes it to an action editor in the relevant division. Submission is via ScholarOne (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/AMJ) with all author identifiers removed for blind review.