The author offers readers of the “Academy of Management Review” journal the top ten reasons why their papers might not be sent out for review. Reasons include reviewing literature and introductions rather than offering distinctive contributions and analysis, papers geared towards practitioners, which isn't the primary audience of the journal, papers that lack organizational relevance and are targeted at another discipline, and replicas of already published works. Additional reasons include uninvited resubmissions, empirical research, guideline violations, and no theory.
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