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Business Policy and Strategy
Submission Instructions
Specific Domain: the roles and problems of general managers and those who manage multi-business firms or multi-functional business units; the performance of firms and other organizational forms that interface with a market environment, such as business units, alliances, and clusters of organizations. Major topics include: strategy formulation and implementation; strategic planning and decision processes; strategic control and reward systems; resource allocation; diversification and portfolio strategies; competitive strategy; cooperative strategies, selection and behavior of general managers; and the composition and processes of top management teams.
Special Instructions:
Division Awards: The BPS division gives out a variety of awards each year:
- Glueck Best Paper Award: the best paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program and is supported by friends and former students of Bill Glueck;
- Distinguished Paper Awards: recognize the top 1% of scholarly paper submissions to the Business Policy and Strategy division;
- Robert J. Litschert Award: the best paper authored by doctoral students. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the paper must be authored by students only. It cannot be co-authored by a non-student;
- Distinguished Student Paper Award: recognizes finalists for the Litschert award;
- Blackwell Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy;
- Dissertation Award Finalist: recognizes finalists for the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award;
- Sumantra Goshal Research and Practice Award: the paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program that makes the greatest combined contribution to research and practice;
- Richard D. Irwin Outstanding Educator Award: supported by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. and granted every other year;
- Best Reviewers of the BPS conference: awarded to top 5% of reviewers for the Business Policy and Strategy division.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines. The two part submission process begins by entering the basic information (authors, title, abstract, keywords, etc.) at http://submissions.aomonline.org/. Once the data are entered, the submission is assigned a 5 digit ID number. This number is used when naming and uploading the file in the 2nd part of the process. The following checklist is a summary of the format guidelines for submissions:
Submission Format Checklist
- ___Your submission is in Word XP format or an earlier version.
- ___Your submission has been named to reflect your unique Academy-assigned electronic submission identification number (#####.doc).
- ___Your entire submission (text, figures, graphs, tables, and references) is contained in a single document (i.e., no separate files for references or graphs). Copy and paste tables/ graphs from other programs into your Word document.
- ___Your AOM assigned submission number is recorded as a header on all pages.
- ___The page number is included as a footer on all pages.
- ___Your submission paginates and prints correctly (check especially to be sure imported figures print as you want them to).
- ___Your submission is virus-free.
- ___Your submission uses Times New Roman l2-pitch font, double-line spacing, with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides.
- ___Papers' references and format (except for the abstract length) should follow the Style Guide for the Academy of Management Journal, which can be found in the journal.
Online Submission checklist
- ___Create login for submission website.
- ___Paper title, abstract, and author(s) were properly entered.
- ___Submission was finalized
Guidelines Specific to Paper Submissions
- ___Include a separate abstract page that states the title and an abstract (no more than 250 words). This abstract should be identical to the one submitted to the AOM website.
- ___To facilitate blind-review of paper submissions, you have not included any author identifying information in the text, nor have you included acknowledgements to other contributors to your submission.
- ___The identifying properties stored in the document have been removed from your final version. To remove identifying properties, in Word's "Tools" menu, click "Options", then click the "User Information" tab. Remove all identifying information.
Guidelines Specific to Symposium Submissions
- ___A title page that includes: a) the title of the symposium, b) the complete formal name and contact information for the chair as well as all participants and discussants, c) an abstract of the symposium in no more than 250 words, and d) the divisions and/or interests groups to which the symposium is being submitted.
- ___Three (3) keywords identifying the major subject of the symposium.
- ___A 3-5 page overview of the symposium.
- ___An explanation of why the symposium should be of interest to each of the specified division interest groups.
- ___A description of the session's format (presenter vs. panel and how it will be conducted).
- ___A 2-5 page synopsis of each presentation.
- ___A statement from the symposium organizer within the symposium proposal declaring: "I have received signed statements or emails from all intended participants formally agreeing to participate in the symposium."
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