Liqun Wei, Editor in chief of Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 
weiliqun@hkbu.edu.hk

Shuang Ren, Editor in chief of British Journal of Management
Professor, Queen’s University Belfast
s.ren@qub.ac.uk

David Ahlstrom, Consulting editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
ahlstrom@baf.cuhk.edu.hk

Jia Liu, Associate Editor of British Journal of Management
Professor, University of Portmouth 
jia.liu@port.ac.uk

Several other members of BJM and APJM Associate Editor and Editorial Review Board
British Journal of Management (BJM) and Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) offer a joint Paper Development Workshop (PDW) at the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Annual Meeting on June 18, 2023, in Hong Kong, China. BJM is a leading journal targeting a general management oriented audience, with impact factor at 7.450. It is the official journal of British Academy of Management. More information on BJM can be found at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678551. APJM is a leading journal targeting management and organisation research in the Asia Pacific region, encompassing Pacific Rim countries and mainland Asia. More information on APJM is available at https://www.springer.com/journal/10490

The goal of this PDW is to provide an educational and informational forum for Chinese management researchers to build capacity for publishing in leading English journals. The Chinese management scholarly community is emerging rapidly over the past few years, evidenced by the number of submissions made to leading management journals and the number of published studies with data collected in China. However, Chinese management scholars continue to face challenges associated with publishing in leading English journals as non-native English speakers.

This PDW will cover emerging challenges, trends, and changes in the publication world. It also provides participants feedback on their research. Interested participants are invited to submit their manuscript to s.ren@qub.ac.uk with the subject “Submission for BJM-APJM PDW at IACMR 2023” by 30 April. Manuscripts are selected based on the fit with the PDW and the quality of submitted work. The submission needs to be in English, at a completed draft stage, and not published elsewhere. The maximum word length is 6,000, excluding the title page, abstract, references, figures and tables.

KEY DATES:

30^th April 2023: Deadline for paper submissions to s.ren@qub.ac.uk with the subject: “Submission for BJM-APJM joint PDW at IACMR 2023”
25^th May 2023: Notification of submission acceptance
1^st June 2023: Confirmation of participation
5^th June 2023: Deadline for submitting updated manuscripts; Deadline of conference registration
18^th June, 2023: PDW in person at the conference venue