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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

MANAGING EDITOR – JOURNAL OF MARKETING THEORY AND PRACTICE

Routledge, Taylor & Francis, in conjunction with the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA), seek to appoint a new Managing Editor for the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice (JMTP). This three-year appointment will take effect with the startup of the fall 2016 academic year, with transition taking place over the summer.

JMTP was created in 1993 to provide an outlet for quality scholarly research across a broad range of marketing subjects – with the important caveat that tying the work to managerial application is essential for publication. In 2005 a consortium was developed among the SMA, M.E. Sharpe Publishers, and the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, to acquire, publish, and edit JMTP. In 2014, Routledge, Taylor & Francis acquired M.E. Sharpe, bringing the power and expertise of one of the top global academic journal publishers to JMTP. The journal is owned by Taylor & Francis and distributed as one of SMA’s official journals.

JMTP has continued to grow and flourish in recent years and is widely recognized today as a high-quality outlet for managerially-oriented research in marketing. It is truly global in scope – many of our published articles originate with author teams outside the U.S., and the editorial review board is populated with scholars from throughout the globe. A senior advisory board composed of former JMTP editors and other top scholars provides strategic counsel. Details about the journal can be found at the editorial website (www.jmtp-online.org) and the publisher website ().

OFFICIAL AIMS AND SCOPE STATEMENT FOR JMTP

JMTP aims to address and advance a broad gamut of substantive, managerial issues across the field of marketing. As reflected by the journal’s title, the JMTP is devoted to advancing the field of marketing in meaningful ways through scholarship that is both rigorous and relevant.

JMTP was the first high quality general marketing journal to require the pairing of academic sensibilities toward research with high potential for application of findings “on Monday morning” by marketing practitioners. The journal provides a unique outlet for publishing managerially relevant articles across a broad range of marketing subjects – an alternative to the fragmentation of the field of marketing into many sub-disciplines each represented by a specialty journal.

With a decidedly international inclusiveness in terms of authors and reviewers, JMTP values and publishes both conceptual (non-empirical) and empirical work. The journal is also unbiased in preference to methodologies employed in empirical papers so long as the methodological approach properly fits the study’s aims and research questions.

FUTURE OF JMTP

The future of the journal is bright. The journal is presently in the midst of formal review by Thomson Reuters for possible inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index, and recently has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for inclusion in its Emerging Sources Citation Index within the Web of Science Core Collection. JMTP is regularly represented on key “Meet the Editor” sessions at major marketing conferences and has consistently maintained a strong pipeline of quality submissions in various stages of review and revision.

The new managing editor will work with the editor-in-chief, editorial and senior advisory boards, and publisher to evaluate and decide on a reorganization approach to an associate editor (AE) system for manuscript processing. All submissions go through Taylor & Francis’ ScholarOne system, which is a comprehensive, user-friendly platform. An AE system can be easily accommodated through ScholarOne. The following are among the key responsibilities of the managing editor:

• Continue the journal’s trajectory of quality and growth
• Manage the manuscript review process, make article acceptance decisions, and build the article lineup for four issues per year with an average of seven articles each
• Implement an AE system for manuscript processing
• Commission occasional high-profile special issues
• Maintain the culture of thorough, constructive reviews
• Represent the journal at appropriate “Meet the Editor” sessions
• Lead the yearly editorial review board/senior advisory board meeting at the SMA Annual Conference
• Work closely with the publisher, Taylor & Francis Group
• Continue to build a strong cohort of reviewers, both board members and ad hoc reviewers

CONSIDERATION PROCESS

Interested individuals should send a cover letter outlining their interest in the managing editorship and vision for the future of JMTP, along with a current CV, to Greg Marshall at gmarshall@rollins.edu. Evaluation of candidates will take place via a selection committee beginning April 4, 2016. Therefore materials must be received no later than Friday, April 1. We anticipate that discussions with finalists will take place in late April with an appointment announced in early May.

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