Organization and Management Theory OMT

Innovation: Organization & Management (IOM) had a successful first year. We have published 30 pieces, held our first editorial meeting, and saw our impact factor increase to .95. Below a few highlights. 

Launch issue: The launch issue contains a series of thought-provoking pieces by eminent innovation scholars; some of these pieces have been downloaded thousands of times. 

Special issues:

• Special issue on Open and user innovation. Guest editors: Alexy, Frederiksen & Hutter. Submit by 15th of January 2018. 

• Special issue on The Knowledge economy, innovation and the new challenges for Universities. Guest editors: McKelvey, Buenstorf, & Broström. Submit by 15th of April 2018. 

• A further special issue on Culture, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, guest edited by Cornelissen, Granqvist, Grodal and Lounsbury is in the process of being produced.

Featured essay (in press): Organizing and innovating in poor places - Neil Stott & Paul Tracey.

Featured article: Performance gains and losses from network centrality in cluster located firms: a longitudinal study - Simone Ferriani and Ian MacMillan. 

Featured article: Human capital and innovation in Sub-Saharan countries: a firm level study - Annelies van Uden, Joris Knoben & Patrick Vermeulen. 

Most cited 2016 article: Proclivity for open innovation: Construct development and empirical validation - Kaja Rangus, Mateja Drnovšek & Alberto Di Minin
 

Markus Perkmann & Nelson Phillips
Editors-in-Chief
Imperial College London

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