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Strategies for revising and resubmitting papers to refereed journals

Strategies for revising and resubmitting papers to refereed journals
Strategies for revising and resubmitting papers to refereed journals
We explored what authors allegedly do and why, when invited to revise and resubmit manuscripts to refereed journals. Based on responses from 249 business and management scholars from the UK and USA, we found that authors preferred to resubmit to the original journal, whether the required revision was minor or major, and that under certain circumstances other options would be considered: submitting to alternative journals, sometimes without revising at all; discarding the paper; or challenging the editor. Experience in publishing was found to be an important moderator. As to ‘why’ they purport to do so, a classification of qualitative responses yielded a matrix of four optional strategies, grouped along two axes: rationale (instrumental reasoning versus ethical reasoning) and agency (individually centred reasoning versus community-centred reasoning). Most responses were located in the instrumental/self-centred quadrant.
1045-3172
89-101
Altman, Yochanan
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Altman, Yochanan
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Altman, Yochanan and Baruch, Yehuda (2008) Strategies for revising and resubmitting papers to refereed journals. British Journal of Management, 19 (1), 89-101. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2007.00542.x).

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We explored what authors allegedly do and why, when invited to revise and resubmit manuscripts to refereed journals. Based on responses from 249 business and management scholars from the UK and USA, we found that authors preferred to resubmit to the original journal, whether the required revision was minor or major, and that under certain circumstances other options would be considered: submitting to alternative journals, sometimes without revising at all; discarding the paper; or challenging the editor. Experience in publishing was found to be an important moderator. As to ‘why’ they purport to do so, a classification of qualitative responses yielded a matrix of four optional strategies, grouped along two axes: rationale (instrumental reasoning versus ethical reasoning) and agency (individually centred reasoning versus community-centred reasoning). Most responses were located in the instrumental/self-centred quadrant.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 11 September 2007
Published date: March 2008
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 356599
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/356599
ISSN: 1045-3172
PURE UUID: 4c48fb50-bf2c-4fa0-b878-7fd60edcefe9
ORCID for Yehuda Baruch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0678-6273

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Date deposited: 10 Sep 2013 11:29
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:47

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Author: Yochanan Altman
Author: Yehuda Baruch ORCID iD

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