1. Click to edit Master title style Publishing in journals: WR PhD students session Dr Robert Wapshott Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development @RobertWapshott @UoS_Management

2. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Associate Editor Personnel Review Editorial Advisory Board International Small Business Journal Editorial Review Board International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behvavior & Research Ad hoc reviewer for journals including Human Relations and Human Resource Management Journal Background and introductions

3. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Why write articles for journals? The importance of ‘so what?’ Problems not gaps Basic rules Session Structure

4. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Why write articles for journals?

5. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover The ‘so what?’ of an article is when the authors explain the importance/ significance of what they are writing about It needs to be explicit and it’s the author’s responsibility for telling the reader what it is – why they should continue reading the paper If you don’t know the answer, you can’t expect someone else to work it out for you The importance of ‘so what?’

6. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover The ‘so what?’ issue can reflect a tendency to focus on research gaps rather than research problems “Gap”: Very limited research on employment relationships in small professional firms “Problem”: Existing knowledge on employment relationships in small firms is based on predominantly low- skilled, manufacturing, owner-manager dominant contexts – sPSFs represent a very different context so current knowledge may not readily explain relations in these kinds of firm… Problems not gaps

7. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Try unpacking the terms you’re using Rather than ‘employment relationships in small professional service firms’ [which would be an empirical gap] Think about what these firms are like; how is that different from / similar to existing knowledge? What does that mean for the generalisability of existing knowledge? Its power to explain phenomena in different contexts? Maybe it becomes: studying employment relationships in contexts where employees have relatively high power, employees central to value-creation (& portable in labour market), owner-manager dependence Problems not gaps

8. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover “Employee training practices in small businesses growing potatoes in East Anglia” [a very slight adaptation] Problems not gaps

9. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Have a go yourself (a)Write down your research title / focus (b)Describe your research focus as a ‘problem’ that matters (c)Share with colleagues and give feedback to each other – can convince someone that your work matters? Problems not gaps

10. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Many of the basic rules come down to common courtesy! Read the ‘guidance for authors’ page Read & use your target journal! Respect word limits Include a letter that explains what your contribution is and how it is relevant for the journal you are submitting to Basic rules

11. Click to edit Master title style PowerPoint header for front cover Be positive! Remain positive! Any reviews provide useful information Reviews can be painful! R&R – understand the feedback and work at your changes and your response letter Basic rules

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