A checklist for prospective authors of Asia Pacific Journal of Management

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In several recent editorial articles in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (Ahlstrom, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c), I noted that we receive numerous submissions to APJM that are potentially of interest, but often have improperly organized and undersold arguments, or simply lie outside of the aims and scope of this journal (Ahlstrom, 2011). These problems hurt otherwise interesting papers as it can be difficult to see their specific value and contribution. Those articles also provided several recommendations to prospective authors in terms of crafting their papers, avoiding desk rejections, and responding to reviewers. Interested authors should look carefully at those APJM articles as well as this journal’s aims and scope, which can be found on APJM’s website along with other instructions and helpful information on writing for scholarly publication (Ahlstrom, 2010a, b, c, 2011; Huff, 1999, 2008; Machi & McEvoy, 2008; Sutton & Staw, 1995). …