formerly the Journal of Socio-EconomicsThe Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics welcomes submissions that deal with various economic topics but also involve issues that are related to other social sciences, especially psychology, or use experimental methods of inquiry. Thus, contributions in behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic psychology, and judgment and decision making are especially welcome. The journal is open to different research methodologies, as long as they are relevant to the topic and employed rigorously. Possible methodologies include, for example, experiments, surveys, empirical work, theoretical models, meta-analyses, case studies, and simulation-based analyses. Literature reviews that integrate findings from many studies are also welcome, but they should synthesize the literature in a useful manner and provide substantial contribution beyond what the reader could get by simply reading the abstracts of the cited papers. In empirical work, it is important that the results are not only statistically significant but also economically significant. A high contribution-to-length ratio is expected from published articles and therefore papers should not be unnecessarily long, and short articles are welcome. Articles should be written in a manner that is intelligible to our generalist readership. Book reviews are generally solicited but occasionally unsolicited reviews will also be published. Contact the Book Review Editor for related inquiries.
The Journal of Vocational Behavior publishes original empirical and theoretical articles that contribute novel insights to the fields of career choice, career development, and work adjustment across the lifespan and which are also valuable for applications in counseling and career development programs in colleges and universities, business and industry, government, and the military.The Journal primarily focuses on investigations of individual decision-making about work and careers rather than studies of employer or organizational-level variables. Example topics include initial career choices (e.g., choice of major, initial choice of work or organization, organizational attraction), the development of a career, work transitions, work-family management, work adjustment and attitudes within the workplace (such as work commitment, multiple role management, turnover).Editors will consider manuscripts that make significant contributions to the literature in the following areas:
Studies of individuals' career and work-related choices examining topics such as:
• Theories of career choice; occupational interests and their measurement
• The inter-relation of abilities, needs, values, and personality
• Occupational aspirations and the vocational decision-making process
• Career adaptability; vocational development processes and stages
• The effects of culture, demographic variables, and experiential factors on vocational choice
• Career exploration
• Job search
• Organizational socialization.
Studies of work decisions and adjustment within the workplace, investigating topics such as:
• Job performance and satisfaction
• Career success;
• Theories of work adjustment
• Adult vocational development and career patterns
• Organizational commitment and job involvement
• Multiple-role management and the work-family interface
• Work-role salience
• Culture, demographic variables, and experiential factors on workplace decisions
• Work-leisure relations
• Midlife career change
• Occupational re-entry and transition from work to retirement.
• Individual job characteristics and job design.
• Work-related stress and well-being.
The journal also publishes research on career interventions; mentoring; and psychometric research that reports the construction and initial validation of new inventories as well as studies that evaluate the reliability and validity of instruments that measure career related constructs.
Please note: the Journal does not publish research on organization-, team-, or group-level variables nor does it publish studies on vocational education.
Organizational Dynamics' domain is primarily organizational behavior and secondarily, HRM and strategic management. The mission is to provide new and practical insights that link leading-edge thought and research with management practice that is written in a style that is engaging for managers and students in executive education and MBA programs. The purpose of articles in Organizational Dynamics is to present applications of current and well-researched knowledge that helps practicing managers to be more effective in their managerial roles. While we do not publish research reporting tests of hypotheses or inferential statistics, we do publish articles that apply research findings in language and style that engages practitioners.Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support CenterWrite for our target audience
Professional managers, executive education leaders, classroom teachers, and MBA students.
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As noted in mission and purpose above, Organizational Dynamics' domain is primarily organizational behavior and secondarily, HRM and strategic management. The objective is to link leading-edge thought and research with management practice. Thus, Organizational Dynamics is seeking articles that embody practical content that shows how research can help managers deal effectively with the dynamics of organizational life.
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Organizational Dynamics seeks articles written in a lively and clear style. While authors may need to use the terminology of the discipline, they must make those terms and academic wording clear to managers.  Thus, authors must provide contextual clarification for terms used. Authors must also ensure they have followed the Important Guidance provided for statistics as well as citations and documentation within the Additional Information section of Writing and Formatting.