Critical Management Studies (CMS)

Greetings from AMLE, 

I am delighted to share a few news items from the AMLE deck that might be of interest to colleagues across disciplines, so I hope you can bear with me that this information is shared across AOM email list-servers. Let me get straight into it:

1. AMLE remains a 4* journal in the new UK Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024 version 

This category is considered "world-wide as exemplars of excellence", and maintaining that standing is a collective achievement of editors, authors, and reviewers over many years. Thank you to all who contribute to AMLE to make this happen (again). Mind you, in the first place, AMLE is simply keen to publish theory-driven papers that intrigue readers and change the conversation on a given topic. For background, please consult this and this FTE on the construction of theoretical contributions in AMLE. Please keep in mind that AMLE is completely agnostic about paradigmatic, theoretical, or methodological approaches, for as long as a submission contributes to management learning, management education, or the "business of business schools". 

2. New CFP for a Special Issue: 

MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND EDUCATION AS DRIVERS OF FUNDAMENTAL ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ORGANIZING

The Special Issue is organized by

Simon Pek, University of Victoria (Canada)

Frédéric Dufays, HEC Liège-ULiège & KU Leuven (Belgium)

Martyna Śliwa, University of Bath (United Kingdom)

Ajnesh Prasad, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)

Amon Barros, FGV EAASP (Brazil)

Laura Colombo, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)

Katrin Muehlfeld, Trier University (Germany)

Deadline for Submissions: 15 December 2025

Anticipated Publication: September 2027

The full CFP can be accessed here.

3. AMLE invites new proposals for a special issue to be published in 2028

Submissions will be considered between 1st of June and 1st of August 2025

The full call for proposals can be found here.

4. In-person (full paper) PDW hosted by Queen's Business School in Belfast

Deadline for Submissions: I July 2025

Dates of PDW: 11-12 September 2025

Full details can be found here.

Should you have any comments or questions, please feel free to reach out.

Appreciatively