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Use when you need to understand how Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) evaluates a manuscript — triage by the joint Editors-in-Chief, double-anonymized review by interdisciplinary referees, the meaning of each decision type, and how to read the editor's letter. Explains the process; it does not draft the revision response (aos-rebuttal).

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# Review Process (aos-review-process)

## When to trigger

- Calibrating expectations before or just after submitting to AOS
- A decision letter arrived and its signals need decoding
- You want to anticipate the reviewer mix an interdisciplinary journal will assemble
- You are deciding whether a rejected paper should be reworked for AOS or rerouted

## How AOS handles a submission

- **Triage by the joint EiCs.** Three Editors-in-Chief share the desk (verified 2026-07-16: Marcia Annisette, Martin Messner, Hun-Tong Tan), with profiles spanning the journal's traditions — critical/interpretive, management accounting/qualitative, and experimental/JDM. Your paper will be read first by an editor fluent in its tradition; scope misfits are desk-rejected quickly, and the capital-markets-without-theory genre is the most frequent casualty.
- **Double-anonymized refereeing.** Reviewers are chosen for the paper's tradition *and* its theory: a field study using institutional theory may draw one accounting-field-study specialist and one reader closer to organization theory; an experiment draws JDM expertise. Expect referees who know the imported theory's primary sources.
- **Decision types.** Desk reject (scope/quality triage); reject after review; revise-and-resubmit in major or minor form; conditional accept. As across elite journals, acceptance is normally reached through one or more substantive revision rounds.
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