Innovation

The Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice journal was relaunched as Innovation: Organization & Management from 1st January 2017.

The Journal has an entirely new Editorial Board, a refocused aims and scope statement, new article types and a fast turnaround policy. The Editors-in-Chief are Llewellyn D.W. Thomas (IESE Business School, Spain) and Nelson Phillips (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) and the new Associate Editors are Oliver Alexy, Janet Bercovitz, Lars Frederiksen, Lucy Gilson, Michael Lounsbury and Paul Tracey. The Social Media Editor is Stefano Magistretti.

Former Editor-in Chief Markus Perkmann and former Social Media Editor Christine Moser.

We welcome proposals for special issues.

Aims & Scope

Innovation: Organization & Management ( IOM) publishes outstanding research on innovation within and across organizations. The Journal addresses scholars in management, strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, organizational theory and organizational behaviour, and welcomes manuscripts grounded in diverse disciplinary, theoretical and methodological traditions. The Journal publishes both empirical and theoretical contributions that are highly relevant and methodologically robust. The Editors-in-Chief particularly encourage manuscripts that break new ground theoretically - even if they are methodologically risky - or use non-mainstream and innovative approaches.

The implied meaning of innovation is broad, ranging from technological innovation to organizational innovation to business and social innovation, both in the context of business organizations and not-for-profit organizations. IOM covers innovation processes, structures, outcomes, antecedents, discourses and behaviours in both large and small organizations, including entrepreneurial organization. The level of analysis considered ranges from individual innovative and creative behaviour, innovation within teams, groups and networks, organization-level innovation to innovation across organizational networks and fields.

Themes invited include (but are not limited to):

• Innovation management
• Innovation strategies, including open innovation
• Technology strategy
• Markets for technology
• Field-wide innovation, adoption, diffusion
• Organizational behaviour and innovation
• Creativity, improvisation and individual innovation
• Innovation, teams and groups
• Institutional and social innovation
• Discursive aspects of innovation
• Entrepreneurial innovation
• Social entrepreneurship
• Positive and negative consequences of innovation
• Critical approaches to innovation
• Social organization of innovation (open-source, academia)
• Innovation, alliances and networks
• Science business and science entrepreneurship
• Business models, managerial cognition

Innovation: Organization & Management publishes the following types of articles:

• Standard articles: Full-length original articles of around 8,000 words including references. Standard articles can be theoretical or empirical.
• Concise articles: Articles presenting a concise answer to a specific research question, with shorter literature reviews and shorter discussions. We would expect these articles to be a maximum of 5,000 words although shorter articles are welcome provided they answer an interesting question. Concise articles would generally be empirical.
• Essays: Scholarly commentaries on disputed theoretical issues, interesting or contested phenomena, or directions for future research. Essays should be written in the first person and should focus on carefully crafted arguments for a position. Essays should be in the range of 4,000 to 6,000 words.
• Theory validation articles: Articles will report empirical studies that test existing theoretical claims in new settings and theoretically elaborate boundary conditions or generalizability. These studies should not be pure replication but should extend existing theory.

Each standard and concise article needs to (a) address a clear and important problem or puzzle, (b) speak to an identifiable conversation in the literature, (c) use appropriate analytical techniques (for empirical papers), and (d) advance the literature by making a theoretical contribution (rather than merely presenting new empirical evidence).

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Peer Review Statement

Innovation: Organization & Management is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.