Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The scope of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice (IMPP - ISSN 1447-9338) encompasses innovation research, policy analysis and best practice in large and small enterprises, public and private sector service organizations, state and national government, and local and regional societies and economies with special emphasis on linking academic research to future practice.

Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice publishes original research, literature and book reviews, methodology, policy analyses, case studies, education and training approaches, strategy, tactical and finance tips, practice reports, conference reports, booklists, news, products and conferences across all fields of innovation:

  • Technology strategy, collaboration and competition
  • Technology transfer and innovation support organizations
  • Corporate sustainability, reinvention and renewal
  • Process and product innovation and diffusion
  • Research management and commercialization
  • Cross-cultural management and innovation
  • Team building and team management
  • Managing creativity and creative teams
  • Government innovation policy and regulation for innovation
  • Managing and commercializing intellectual property
  • Managing virtual teams and environments for innovation
  • Managing organizational learning, knowledge and change
Accepted manuscripts address of the following readerships of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice: academic researchers; university lecturers; innovation graduates; management students; professional development trainers; research scientists; engineer managers; industry economists; public policy developers and analysts; public and private sector research and laboratory managers; company directors, financial officers, marketing, human resources and operations managers.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

  • Editorial submissions are sought from the editorial board of the journal for regular and special issues. Authors wishing to submit editorials should contact the Editorial Team.

Submissions for general issues

  • This section is for submissions for general issues only and they will be edited by the journal's editors.

12/1 Network Analysis Application in Innovation Studies

  • This special issue 'Network Analysis Application in Innovation Studies' (Volume 12/1) will be edited by a team of guest editors.

12/2 Public Sector Innovation

  • This special issue 'Public Sector Innovation' (Volume 12/1) will be edited by a team of guest editors.
  • Deadline for Manuscript Submissions 18 September 2009

13/1 Collaborative and Challenge-led Innovation

  • This special issue 'Collaborative and Challenge-led Innovation' (Volume 12/3) will be edited by a team of guest editors.
  • Deadline for Manuscript Submissions 01 March 2010

Book Reviews

  • Submissions and proposals for book reviews should be made to this issue/section of the journal.

Call for Papers

  • Approved call for papers submissions appear in this section of the Journal.
  • New proposals should follow the guidelines regarding special issues.

 

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a double blind peer review process.

Criteria for selection are that articles are novel, relevant, concise, practical, informative and useful to readers of the respective sections of the Journal: Feature Articles; Management Education; East Asian Management Research in Industry, Innovation and Technology; Innovation Case Studies; Innovation Education; Policy Analysis; Literature Reviews; Technology Transfer Tactics; Research Notes; Book Reviews and Booklists; Conference Reports and Calendar; News and New Products.

Guidelines for manuscript reviewers

Authors generally agree that a good review process provides the following:

  • helpful assessment of the paper's strengths and diagnosis of problem areas
  • clear, constructive advice (in a friendly tone) on how to develop the paper. Without this, authors find it difficult to accept critique
  • promptness of review - while ideas are still fresh, and to assist completion and publication of the paper so authors can move on to other projects

Reviewers can provide comments via the Peer Review form or appended to their version of the manuscript.

This blind peer review process and information in manuscripts must have guaranteed confidentiality. To ensure this, reviewers are requested to not discuss the manuscript with another person.

Conducting a review

We expect reviewer's to bring to their reading of papers their full scope of experience, and advice on any aspect of the paper will be valued. Reviewers may find the following broad questions useful.

  • Is the paper well-grounded in the contemporary literature on the topic?
  • Does it make clear the contribution it aims to make to that literature?  And succeed in making that contribution?
  • Does it present a coherent argument for its position, and are positions, propositions or hypotheses persuasively developed?  Do conclusions follow persuasively from the argument?
  • Is written expression clear, concise and accessible to students and academics with an interest in this field?
  • Please highlight poor grammar or spelling. 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, providing they are used consistently. It is not the reviewer's role to correct but helpful to identify errors.
  • Are heading levels appropriate and concise? 
  • Has ethical clearance been shown for research papers? Are ethical processes followed included in the body of the article?
  • Are references accurate and timely, and consistent throughout?  Do in-text citations appear in References, and vice-versa as appropriate?
How are reviews conducted?

We ask reviewers to:

  1. register on OJS as a reviewer

  2. access assigned manuscripts for review promptly

  3. complete the online IMPP Invited Review form

  4. make annotations on the manuscript itself - using Track Changes or highlighting your comments - then upload that document

  5. submit a review recommendation.

Following receipt of all reviews, remarks are conveyed to the author(s) together with a summary report from the editor. The editor will correspond with authors and reviewers on any subsequent revision to the paper that may be requested, until a decision is reached on publication.

 

Publication Frequency

Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice appears on a January-December subscription cycle comprising of 3 issues averaging 100 pages. 2 Special issues are published each year.

 

Access

Indexed in Thomson Reuter's:

  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Social Scisearch Journal Citation
  • Reports/Social Sciences Edition

Aggregated, abstracted and indexed in:

  • Thompson-Gale
  • EBSCOHost
  • EBSCO Publishing
  • ProQuest
  • IBSS
  • Atypon-link
  • Informit
  • eBrary
  • APAIS
  • DEST Register of Refereed Journals
  • Cabell's and Ulrich's.

 

Availability

Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice is available online to Institutional subscribers.

Supplementary print copies may be ordered directly from the publisher.

Online access is available to subscribers through Atypon Link, EBSCOhost, SwetsWise, CNPIEC and CELDES.

Individual articles may be ordered on a Pay Per View Basis from: atypon-link.com or the Publisher.




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