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jms-topic-selection
Use when scoping or stress-testing whether a research question fits the Journal of Management Studies (JMS) — a phenomenon-grounded management-theory question, quantitative or qualitative. Decides fit and framing direction; it does not build the theory (jms-theory-development) or position the literature (jms-literature-positioning).
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# Topic Selection (jms-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have a dataset, a field site, or a phenomenon but not yet a question JMS would call a *contribution*
- The idea feels like "an interesting finding" rather than "a problem in a management conversation"
- You are unsure whether the paper belongs at JMS versus AMJ, Organization Studies, JoM, or SMJ
- A practitioner-relevant phenomenon is in hand but the management-theory angle is missing
- The question could be answered better with qualitative depth than with the quantitative design you defaulted to (or vice versa)
## The JMS topic bar
JMS publishes work that **engages an organizational or management phenomenon and moves a theoretical conversation** about it. Two features distinguish a JMS-fit topic. First, it is **phenomenon-rooted**: there is a real-world organizational puzzle (a strategic shift, an entrepreneurial process, an institutional tension, a managerial practice) that the paper takes seriously, not just a gap-in-the-literature. Second, it is **pluralism-friendly**: JMS will reward the question whether you answer it with a structural equation model on survey data, an inductive multi-case study, a longitudinal process narrative, or a critical/interpretive reading — so choose the method the *question* demands, not the one your sub-field defaults to. The journal's identity is internationally oriented and European-rooted, so context-sensitivity (institutions, national settings, comparative variation) is a strength, not a liability.
