Organization & Environment
Organization & Environment publishes rigorous and impactful research on organizing and management for sustainability. In service of this mission, it searches for contributions to academic debates that are grounded in sound social science and that have managerial implications, and beyond (policy, research, social, etc. implications). Manuscripts from business disciplines are welcome, including papers adopting and developing theories in social science fields such as economics, political science, sociology, psychology, history, and law, as well as the interdisciplinary field of sustainability science. We encourage management research addressing multi-level sustainability impacts of organizations within and beyond their organizational boundaries. Published articles typically engage with, and contribute back to, the relevant literature in central management journals. O&E publishes articles focusing on organizing and management for environmental sustainability, as well as those that address the combination of environmental and social and economic sustainability in the context of business and organizing. OE does not publish papers addressing only social sustainability questions.
O&E encourages submissions that explore novel concepts, advance theory, experiment with new methodologies and designs, and empirically validate theoretical insights. The journal has a keen interest in the study of new phenomena that are not completely explainable with the current knowledge, and the consequent launch of novel theoretical and empirical lines of inquiry. From time to time, O&E uses special issues to spotlight a compelling topic area, bringing together a resonant group of high-quality articles that promote focused knowledge.
Organization & Environment publishes rigorous and impactful research on organizing and management for sustainability. In service of this mission, it searches for contributions to academic debates that are grounded in sound social science and that have managerial implications, and beyond (policy, research, social, etc. implications). Manuscripts from business disciplines are welcome, including papers adopting and developing theories in social science fields such as economics, political science, sociology, psychology, history, and law, as well as the interdisciplinary field of sustainability science. We encourage management research addressing multi-level sustainability impacts of organizations within and beyond their organizational boundaries. Published articles typically engage with, and contribute back to, the relevant literature in central management journals. O&E publishes articles focusing on organizing and management for environmental sustainability, as well as those that address the combination of environmental and social and economic sustainability in the context of business and organizing. OE does not publish papers addressing only social sustainability questions.
O&E encourages submissions that explore novel concepts, advance theory, experiment with new methodologies and designs, and empirically validate theoretical insights. The journal has a keen interest in the study of new phenomena that are not completely explainable with the current knowledge, and the consequent launch of novel theoretical and empirical lines of inquiry. From time to time, O&E uses special issues to spotlight a compelling topic area, bringing together a resonant group of high-quality articles that promote focused knowledge.
Epistemology
In addition to the standard theory development and theory testing endeavors, O&E welcomes studies focused on new phenomena, not completely explainable with extant knowledge, and the consequent launch of novel theoretical and empirical lines of inquiry. Critical to the assessment of these phenomenon-driven contributions is their capacity to expose the failure of existing theories to explain the empirical evidence and the potential capacity of the proposed inquiry to do so.
Methods
O&E is open to all research methodologies, as long as they are applied in line with the highest quality standards. This includes quantitative and qualitative research designs, as well as qualitative comparative analysis and experiments and beyond. The journal commits to publish the results of well executed studies regardless of the scientific outcome.
| Minna Halme | Aalto University, Finland |
| Stefan Schaltegger | Leuphana University, Germany |
| Luca Berchicci | Erasmus University, the Netherlands |
| Flore Bridoux | Erasmus University, the Netherlands |
| Timo Busch | University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Magali Delmas | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Tulin Dzhengiz | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| Tobias Hahn | ESADE, Spain |
| Erik Hansen (Debates) | Johannes Kepler University, Austria |
| Irene Henriques | York University, Canada |
| Bryan Husted | Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico |
| Brooke Lahneman | Montana State University, USA |
| Florian Lüdeke-Freund | ESCP Business School, Germany |
| Thomas Lyon | University of Michigan, USA |
| Lucrezia Nava (Debates) | University of Exeter, UK |
| Eva Niesten (Viewpoints) | SKEMA Business School, University of Cote d’Azur, France |
| Collins Ntim | University of Southampton, UK |
| Mario Pansera | University of Vigo, Spain & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Samuli Patala | Aalto University, Finland |
| Jonatan Pinkse | King’s College London, UK |
| Natalie Slawinski (Viewpoints) | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Sara Soderstrom | University of Michigan, USA |
| Diego Vazquez-Brust | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Marcus Wagner | University of Augsburg, Germany |
| Ramon Aldag | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Toshi Arimura | Waseda University, Japan |
| Grace Augustine | University of Bath, UK |
| Emma Avetisyan | Audencia Business School, France |
| Emanuele Bettinazzi | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Christiane Bode | Imperial College, UK |
| Steffen Boehm | University of Exeter, UK |
| Frances Bowen | University of Essex, UK |
| Maoliang Bu | Nanjing University, China |
| Simone Carmine | IESEG, France |
| Kealy Carter | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Francesca Ciulli | University of Tilburg, the Netherlands |
| Breeda Comyns | KEDGE Business School, France |
| James Cordiero | SUNY - Brockport, USA |
| Frederik Dahlmann | University of Warwick, UK |
| Frank de Bakker | Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands |
| Valentina De Marchi | ESADE, Spain |
| Javier Delgado-Ceballos | University of Granada, Spain |
| Domenico Dentoni | Montpellier Business School, France |
| Mark DesJardine | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Claudia Doblinger | Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Carolyn Egri | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Limin Fu | Monash University, Australia |
| Panikos Georgallis | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Jennifer Goodman | Audencia Business School, France |
| Jake Grandy | University of Arkansas, USA |
| Sylvia Grewatsch | Brock University, Canada |
| Rüdiger Hahn | Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany |
| Ralph Hamann | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Katrin Heucher | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
| Joern Hoppmann | University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| Anne Jacqueminet | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Jouni Juntunen | University of Vaasa, Finland |
| George Kassinis | University of Cyprus, Cyprus |
| Steve Kennedy | Erasmus University, the Netherlands |
| Eun-Hee Kim | Fordham University, USA |
| Arno Kourula | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Nancy Landrum | Munich Business School, Germany |
| David Levy | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Martina Linnenluecke | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Celine Louche | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Rajiv Maher | EGADE Business School, Mexico |
| Joel Malen | Waseda University, Japan |
| Alfred Marcus | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Javier Martinez del Rio | Universidad de Almería, Spain |
| Daniel Matisoff | Georgia Tech University, USA |
| Johannes Meuer | Kühne Logistics University, Germany |
| Maria Montes-Sancho | Universidad Carlos III, Spain |
| Kerstin Neumann | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Daniel Nyberg | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Pascal Paille | NEOMA Business School, France |
| Rajat Panwar | Oregon State University, USA |
| Sangchan Park | Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea |
| Antoaneta Petkova | San Francisco State University, USA |
| Mellie Pullman | University of Sussex, UK |
| Paavo Ritala | LUT University, Finland |
| Jorge Rivera | George Washington University, USA |
| Francesco Rosati | Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark |
| Joe Sarkis | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
| Simon Schillebeeckx | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Cory Searcy | Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada |
| Garima Sharma | American University, USA |
| Sanjay Sharma | University of Vermont, USA |
| Birthe Soppe | University of Innsbrook, Austria |
| Pete Tashman | University of Massachusetts - Lowell, USA |
| Antonio Tencati | University of Brescia, Italy |
| Francesco Testa | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy |
| Suzanne Tilleman | University of Montana, USA |
| Sid Vedula | Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Leticia Canal Vieira | Università di Bologna, Italy |
| Sandra Waddock | Boston College, USA |
| Judith Walls | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Gail Whiteman | University of Exeter, UK |
| Marleen Wierenga | Norwegian University of Technology, Norway |
| Amanda Williams | IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Tyler Wry | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Haitao Yu | University of Macau, Macau, China |
| Maurizio Zollo | Imperial College, UK |
| Iqra Khan | Aalto University, Finland |
| J. Alberto Aragon Correa | Universidad de Granada, Spain |
| Pratima Bansal | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| R. Edward Freeman | University of Virginia, USA |
| Jennifer Howard-Grenville | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Michael Russo | University of Oregon, USA |
| Mark Starik | Walden University, Madison, WI, USA |
| John M. Jermier | University of South Florida, USA |
| Paul Shrivastava | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
1. General Orientation
2. Review Process
3. Submissions Guidelines
4. English Edition
Organization & Environment (O&E), recognized as a leading international journal unique in its emphasis on the connection between management of organizations and environment, publishes quarterly peer-reviewed research that sets new and relevant standards for rigorous thinking about the complex and relevant dimensions of the sustainability – including an appropriate balance between and among social, natural, and economic challenges. This research provides a crucial resource for the development of more effective environment-related organizational policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
This O&E mission is achieved through a variety of regular features, including the following:
** Academic Research Articles and Essays (empirical, theoretical, or conceptual): research that develops, tests, or extends environment-related management or sustainability theory and contributes to organizational practice. All empirical methods -including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and combination methods- are welcome. To be published in O&E, a manuscript must make strong conceptual, empirical, or theoretical contributions and must highlight the significance of those contributions to the management field. O&E is not tied to any particular discipline, level of analysis, or national context. O&E encourages relevant research rooted in multiple scientific disciplines.
** Research Reviews: the purpose of a research review is to succinctly review recent progress on a particular organization and environment topic, summarizing the current state of knowledge of the topic. It creates an understanding of the topic for the reader by discussing the findings presented in recent research papers.
** Resource Reviews: reviews that examine and assess organization and environment books, websites, databases, software, video programs, simulations, and other scholarly resources for the purpose of making recommendations on how these can help advance organization and environment scholarship.
2. REVIEW PROCESS
A) Desk decisions. When a manuscript is first received, the editor completes a preliminary screening of a manuscript to assess the degree to which it (1) fits the criteria described in O&E's Mission and (2) possesses at least a minimal likelihood of being favorably evaluated by O&E's reviewers. Submissions that fail to satisfy one or both of those criteria may be returned to the authors as a desk decision, sometimes in the form of a desk reject and sometimes in the form of a desk edit.
O&E is committed to providing quick reviews to submitters, which means that desk rejection will be used as one way to speed the process for all submissions by guaranteeing that every paper accepted for review possesses the potential to be published in the journal. In this context, a desk rejection does not necessarily mean a poor quality submission, but rather that it has a low likelihood of being published in O&E. O&E strives to provide constructive and developmental feedback to authors within approximately two months of initial submission.
B) Review process. For each manuscript that passes the initial editor (desk) review stage, the editor assigns an action editor (either him- or herself or an associate editor or guest editor) and two reviewers (including members of the O&E’s editorial board or other qualified reviewers). The manuscript's action editor makes publication decisions about the manuscript in conjunction with the recommendations provided by the reviewers. All submissions will be double-blind reviewed, so, manuscripts need to have been prepared in a way that guarantees double-blind review. Submission of a manuscript to the Journal also carries the implicit quid pro quo of submitters being willing to review future O&E manuscripts, if called upon to do so.
3. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter including the nature of your contribution and the connection between your contribution and the journal aims, an abstract of no more than 150 words, and a biographical paragraph of 75 words or less for each author. Contributors may also include an appendix in the cover letter with three suggested reviewers, whom they believe are especially well-qualified to review their submission with a brief justification for their recommendations.
The list of suggested reviewers is optional. It is inappropriate to list as preferred reviewers researchers from the same institution as any of the authors, collaborators, and co-authors from the past five years, as well as anyone whose relationship with one of the authors may present a conflict of interest. In any case, Organization & Environment may or may not use the suggested reviewers, and at least one review will be always conducted by a reviewer that was not suggested.
The format and style of written works for publication should normally follow the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. O&E's editors will use clarity, conciseness, and overall quality of writing as criteria in determining the appropriateness of manuscripts submitted for publication. Manuscripts should be written as simply and concisely as possible without sacrificing meaningfulness or clarity of exposition. Typically, papers should be no longer than 40 double-spaced pages (using one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12-point font), inclusive of references, tables, figures and appendices.
In addition to following APA style, manuscripts should generally conform to the following guidelines:
Everything (title, abstract, text, references, endnotes, block quotations, etc.) should be double-spaced. All in-text citations should be included in the reference list; all references should have in-text citations. Endnotes should be used instead of footnotes. Written signed permission for any copyrighted material incorporated into the manuscript should be obtained where necessary and should accompany the final manuscript.
Organization & Environment conducts blinded peer-review. It is VERY IMPORTANT to keep in mind that when uploading your manuscript you will need to upload a manuscript file with no identifying author information (designate as Main Document) and a separate title page (designate as Title Page) with author details.
Be aware that submitted manuscripts should not be under review for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to another publication entity during the O&E review period. Authors whose manuscripts utilize data that are reported in any other manuscript, published or not, are required to inform the editor of these reports at the time of submission. Submission of manuscripts previously published in conferences’ proceedings is acceptable; similarly, prior presentation at a conference or concurrent consideration for presentation at a conference does not disqualify a manuscript from submission to O&E.
Send submissions to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oe
O&E encourages submissions from authors in all regions of the world. Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of SPi, a non-affiliated company that offers Professional Editing Services to authors of journal articles in the areas of science, technology, medicine or the social sciences. SPi specializes in editing and correcting English-language manuscripts written by authors with a primary language other than English. Visit http://www.prof-editing.com for more information about SPi’s Professional Editing Services, pricing, and turn-around times, or to obtain a free quote or submit a manuscript for language polishing.
Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with SPi and makes no endorsement of the company. An author’s use of SPi’s services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement in which an author enters will be considered to be an agreement exclusively between the author(s)and SPi, and any costs incurred will be the sole responsibility of the author(s).