Gioia’s Rules of the Game*

Abstract

I have been editing the “Provocations and Provocateurs” section of JMI since 2005. In all that time, I have not written an essay for my own section. I am redressing that gross injustice to myself in the following little treatise. A few years ago I wrote an essay for a volume entitled How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals. That brief piece generated quite a lot of interest because it lifted the curtain on some of the informal “rules” or processes that can help scholars publish. I thought a version of that short essay would be useful for JMI’s readers.