Publishing with Non-US Data in Top Tier Management Journals

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1 Publishing with Non-US Data in Top Tier Management Journals Yan Anthea Zhang Jones Graduate School of Business Rice University Presented at University of Sydney May

2 Anthea Zhang s Publications: An Overview Strategic Leadership Emerging Markets Strategic Leadership in Emerging Markets

3 Stream 1: Strategic Leadership (CEO Succession/Dismissal) Firm and industry origins of newly appointed CEOs (Zhang and Rajagopalan, AMJ, 2003) Relay CEO successions (Zhang and Rajagopalan, AMJ, 2004) CEO-COO/president rivalry and CEO dismissal (Zhang, SMJ, 2006) Dismissal of newly appointed CEOs (Zhang, SMJ, 2008) CEO leadership dynamism: strategic change and the performance consequence (Zhang and Rajagopalan, SMJ, 2010) Stock market reaction to CEO certification and the signaling role of CEO backgrounds (Zhang and Wiersema, SMJ, 2009) Investment analyst ratings and CEO dismissal (Wiersema and Zhang, SMJ, in press) Executive turnover in the stock option backdating scandal wave (Wiersema and Zhang, SMJ 2 nd review)

4 Stream 2: Emerging Market Strategy -Foreign Direct Investment Control and performance in international joint ventures (Zhang and Li, International Business Review, 2001) Inter-partner credible threat and control in international joint ventures (Zhang and Rajagopalan, JIBS, 2002) Innovation appropriation hazard and the performance consequence of MNC s R&D investment in China (Zhang, Li, Hitt, and Cui, JIBS, 2007) FDI spillovers and the role of FDI country origins (Zhang, Li, Li, and Zhou, SMJ, 2010)

5 Stream 2: Emerging Market Strategy -Technology Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Chinese technology firms (Li, Zhang, and Chen, Journal of High Technology Management Research, 2005) Managers political networking and functional experiences in Chinese new ventures (Li and Zhang, SMJ, 2007) Inter-cluster relationship and the growth of technology clusters (Zhang, Li, and Schoonhoven, SMJ, 2009) Innovation search of new ventures: the role of service intermediaries (Zhang and Li, SMJ, 2010) The role of returnees in the growth of technology ventures in China (Li, Zhang, Zhou, and Zhang).

6 Publishing with non-us data: Questions you hate but would need to address: Why Australia (China, or any other non-us country)? Can the theories, which have been developed in the US context, be applied to this country context? What are your theoretical contributions to the literature?

7 FDI Spillovers in an Emerging Market: The Role of Foreign Firms Country Origin Diversity and Domestic Firms Absorptive Capacity Zhang, Li, Li, and Zhou SMJ, 2010:

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10 Research question: How may the diversity of foreign firms country origins affect FDI spillovers in an emerging market?

11 Phenomena Idea Data CNBS Data: ,462 domestic firm-year obs 81,054 foreign firm-year obs Theory Political leverage Knowledge search

12 Framework: Diversity of foreign firms country origins Domestic firm productivity Domestic firm attributes - Firm size - Technology gap with foreign firms

13 How to theorize the relationships? Political leverage argument What is the assumption of this argument? Can we justify this assumption? What would be the arguments for the moderating effects? Knowledge search and learning argument What is the assumption of this argument? Can we justify this assumption? What would be the arguments for the moderating effects?

14 Other issues raised in the review process: Spillover effect versus joint venture effect Calculation of FDI country origin diversity (based upon sales or number of firms from different counties) The confounding effect of the number of foreign firms Technology gap: industry level versus firm level The form of the moderating effect of technology gap Endogeneity check The role of geographic proximity (analyses at the national level vs. at the regional level)

15 How does this study contribute to the literature? Contribute to which literature? Go beyond FDI presence in an industry The role of FDI country origins Heterogeneity among FDIs in an industry The role of domestic firms as the recipients of FDI spillovers

16 Phenomena Data Idea Theory

17 Let s go to the Academy of Management Journal

18 Some AMJ Statistics One of four journals published by the Academy of Management Now in its 53rd year Receives over 1000 submissions per year Averages a 55-day turnaround for fully-reviewed submissions Second highest impact factor among Management journals (behind Academy of Management Review)

19 The Editorial Team Micro Macro Quantitative Joyce Bono, Univ. of Minnesota Jason Colquitt, Univ. of Florida Adam Grant, Univ. of Pennsylvania Jason Shaw, Univ. of Minnesota Ray Sparrowe, Washington Univ. Ben Tepper, Georgia State Univ. Marta Geletkanycz, Boston College Gerry George, Imperial College Kyle Mayer, Univ. of Southern Cal Gerry McNamara, Michigan State Tim Pollock, Pennsylvania State Anthea Zhang, Rice Univ. Qualitative Kevin Corley, Arizona State Univ. Tima Bansal, Univ. of Western Ontario

20 The Editorial Team What happens when a manuscript is submitted to AMJ? First stop: Mike Malgrande, Managing Editor Second stop: Jason Colquitt, Editor-in-Chief Reads submissions to determine desk decisions and action editor assignment Handles desk decisions for micro papers, delegates desk decisions for macro papers Third stop: Action Editor Chooses five reviewers in an effort to sign up three Makes final decision on manuscript

21 Improving Your Chances at AMJ Four most common themes for rejections: Theoretical Contribution Novelty Scope Technical Adequacy/Rigor

22 Theoretical Contribution Improving Your Chances at AMJ Excerpt from a decision letter The degree to which an article makes a theoretical contribution is an important point of emphasis for AMJ. Articles can make a theoretical contribution by either building theory or testing theory. What s important is that they change, challenge, or fundamentally advance our knowledge of the concepts, relationships, models, or theories embedded in the relevant literatures. In this way, they cause us to think about some organizational phenomenon in a way that would not normally be anticipated from extrapolations of existing work, thereby advancing future work in an important and useful way.

23 Improving Your Chances at AMJ Theoretical contributions may be developed in a variety of ways: Falsification of conventional understanding Theory building through inductive or qualitative research First empirical testing of a theory Meta-analysis with theoretical implications Constructive replication that clarifies the boundaries or range of a theory -Information for Contributors (AMJ website)

24 Improving Your Chances at AMJ Novelty Excerpt from a decision letter AMJ places a strong emphasis on the novelty of a manuscript s contribution when judging a submission. The journal s mission statement stresses that authors should strive to produce novel, innovative, interesting, and theoretically bold research. My sense is that the contribution of your article was more incremental than it needed to be, and that it lacked some of the boldness that the journal strives for in its pages.

25 Improving Your Chances at AMJ Scope Excerpt from a decision letter AMJ places a strong emphasis on the incremental contribution made by an article when judging a submission. The literature impacted by your study is a fairly narrow one. Moreover, although you note that your study fills some gaps in that literature, it must be noted that not all gaps are created equal. Some gaps are very nuanced or incremental, or have little impact on the state of knowledge in a given literature. Other gaps are more fundamental, such that the filling of the gap changes the state of knowledge in some important way.

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27 Improving Your Chances at AMJ Get friendly reviews from colleagues who publish in, and review for, AMJ, at each of these stages: Topic choice Study design Writing

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29 Reviewing for AMJ When authors submit a manuscript to AMJ using the Manuscript Central system, they are asked to sign up to serve as an ad hoc reviewer (if they are not already in the system) Contact an editor if you want to review for AMJ Ad hoc reviewers are asked to do 2-3 reviews per year

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34 Reviewing for AMJ Earning an Invitation to the Editorial Review Board Scholarly productivity Reviewing quality Reviewing conscientiousness Turnaround time Percentage of invitations accepted Board members contribute 8-10 reviews per year, for the duration of the Editor s term. Board membership then resets when the next Editor takes over.

35 Takeaways Identifying interesting and novel research questions from phenomena Theorizing as conversations Who is your audience? Which conversation do you try to join in? To publish in top ties management journals requires novelty, contribution and scope Pay careful attention to structuring and house style Takeaways Structuring conversations using tables and logic of idea flow

36 Thank You!