Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/02/2026 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Audience:
NARTI Online Training & Development
The Art of the Review
With Professor Roy Suddaby
Thursday 5th February 2026 (14.00-17.00 BST)
Online via Zoom
Summary:
Congratulations, you have been invited to Revise and Resubmit (R&R) your manuscript! Now what? One of the most challenging issues in publishing research in top management journals is interpreting and responding to the often conflicting directions given to you at the revise and resubmit stage. Interpreting the advice of reviewers can be particularly difficult for early career researchers who may not have had much prior experience with this somewhat inscrutable process. In this workshop we will discuss some of the common challenges faced by authors in responding to reviewers.
The key learning objective of this session is to give junior and mid-career scholars and third year PhD students an opportunity to see how authors structure their response letter, and how they tactfully deal with aggressive, irrelevant and otherwise confusing suggestions. We will collectively work through an actual set of reviews and a successful response letter. We will also share our collective experiences with confusing reviews and discuss when it is appropriate to reach out to a non-directive editor and ask for her or his position on conflicting reviewer demands.
Materials and Preparation: There are no advance readings. Sample reviews will be distributed for the purpose of the workshop activities. If participants are currently dealing with problematic revise and resubmit suggestions, please feel free to bring these to the workshop.
Speaker bio:
Roy is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, Canada and Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University. He is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review, past Associate Editor at Academy of Management Perspectives, and currently serves as Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Collections and the Human Resources Management Journal. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Irish Academy of Management.
If you would like to join the workshop, please register using the link at the top of this page.