Copy of the slides for the Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) 2012 Editorial Board Meeting.

1. Agenda
 Announcements & Introductions
 Journal Operations
 Awards
Editorial Board Meeting  Vision & Strategic Initiatives
2012  Party (seriously)
Meeting Logistics
 Sign in and verify your information
 Want to volunteer? Note your interest or
contact the chairs:
Four (Small) Tasks for You
– Best paper 2012 (Alison Konrad, Chair)
– Social media strategies (Chris Carter, Chair)
Announcements Social Media: Facebook
AMLE
 Special issues (Lawrence, Eisenberg, you?)
 10th Anniversary Celebration
immediately following this meeting
 Social media (Chris Carter, U Nottingham)
AOM-wide
 New Academy website
 AMD is a go!
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2. Social Media: Twitter Social Media: Don’t just “like” us
 Tweet (and retweet) management-
related topics with us: @amle_editors
 Comment on and repost our Facebook
posts: AMLE.Editors
 Goal: All active members connect and
post something!
Announcements
AMLE Board
member
Siri Terjesen
had twin
Hoosiers!
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Announcements Introductions
AMLE Board  Leadership team
member  New board members
Amelia Clark
– Oana Branzei, University of Western Ontario
lost a staring
– Cynthia S. Cycyota, US Air Force Academy
contest to
– Edwin Hartman, retired
her new son
– Linda Treviño, Penn State University
Finn!
– Vijay Kanna, Utah State University, new editor
of the journal DSJIE
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3. Journal Operations New Submissions
(1 July 2011 – 1 July 2012)
 Submissions Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews 52
 Time under review Research & Reviews 212
Special Issues (partial/combined) 69
 Acceptance rate
 Impact Factor Total 333
Time Under Review Acceptance Rate
 Mean time to first decision: 49 days
 Official 2011 acceptance rate: 11%
 Goal: Reduce by 10 days
 Fate of RES and EDI submissions:
– Faster desk rejects (EIC, Guests)
– Desk reject 33%
– Faster invitation to reviewers (EIC, Guests)
– Desk edit 16%
– Faster responses to requests (EB) – Reject 31%
– Revise 16%
 Goal: Respond to all review requests – Accept 4%
within 72 hours!
Acceptance Rate Impact Factor Trend
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4.80
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 Official 2011 acceptance rate: 11%
 Fate of RES and EDI submissions: 4
– Desk reject 33% 2.89
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– Desk edit 16%
– Reject 31% 2
2.23 2.53
– Revise 16%
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– Accept 4%
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2008 2009 2010 2011
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4. Impact Factor Awards
 Self-citations too high (32%) compared to:  Outstanding Reviewers
– 1stin Management: AMR – 2% – Presented by the AE team
– 2nd in Management: AMJ – 2%
– 2nd in Education: Learning & Instr – 13%  Service Award
– 2nd in Education: Review of Ed Research – 1% – Presented by Ken Brown
 Goal: Authors, reviewers, and editors help  Best Paper
– Presented by Alison Konrad
us reduce self-citations to 20%!
Outstanding Reviewers Service Award
Jon Billsberry Jacobo Ramirez
Nancy DiTomaso Angsar Richter
Tom Hawk
Robert Giacalone Linda Sama
Frostburg State University
Stefan Meisiek Siri Terjesen
Dirk Moosmayer Jon Werner
Chris Quinn-Trank
Best Paper Committee Best Paper Finalists
 Stephen Cummings & Todd Bridgman
Chair: Jon Werner
The relevant past: Why the history of
management should be critical to our future
Members: Alison Konrad, Neng Liang,  Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Denfeld Wood &
and Yehuda Baruch Jennifer Louise Petriglieri
Up close and personal: Building foundations for
leaders’ development through the
personalization of management learning
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5. Best Paper Finalists Best Paper Award Winner
 Robert S. Rubin & Erich C. Dierdorff Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Denfeld Wood &
On the road to Abilene: Time to manage
Jennifer Louise Petriglieri
agreement about MBA curricular relevant Up close and personal: Building foundations for
leaders’ development through the
 Long Wang, Deepak Malhotra & J. Keith
personalization of management learning
Murnighan
Economics education and greed
AMLE Vision (2012-2015) Strategic Initiatives
AMLE seeks to be the international journal  International: Special issue; international visits,
of choice for research about MLE. workshop, & conferences (Australia & China)
 Rigorous: Increased standards for theory,
We will publish scholarship that is rigorous
method, and data reporting; desk decisions
and relevant, and collaborate with other
 Relevant: Pushing for practical implications;
Academy and MLE journals to help those
connecting to current management challenges in
who study, teach, and manage editorials, website, and social media
management-related learning.  Helpful: Ethics focus, BRR “clusters”
A Focus on Ethics Book & Resource Review
Upcoming “Clusters”
 Honig & Bedi (2012) results  Non-management journals
 New ethics policies approved (e.g., Adult Education Quarterly, Journal of Educational
 Plagiarism detection (iThenticate) active Psychology, Educational Psychology Review)
 Teaching & learning conferences
 Goal: Send us ideas for the scholarship we (e.g., The Teaching Professor Conference, American
Association for Adult and Continuing Education
should be doing. Consider writing! Conference (AAACE), American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD), AACSB Assessment Conference)
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6. Summary of Four Tasks
 Tweet/FB AMLE-related content
 Reply to review requests promptly
 Help us increase citations to other journals,
reduce unnecessary AMLE cites
 Consider writing about ethics, or send ideas
 Now, come celebrate next door!
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