Editorial: Improving the odds of publication: writing a clear introduction section

empirical work is needed in those areas as opposed to theory work (Ahlstrom, 2011;Christensen et al., 2018) [1].It is evident that authors should submit their research to the correct research domain and to journals in their area, though some do stumble here (Ahlstrom, 2015b;Konrad, 2008).For example, authors should not submit a paper about spurring and managing economic development to a management journal.Just because a paper has the word "management" in the title does not mean it falls in the general management and organizational domain; such a paper would likely fit more in development economics, for example.Although the economics and business disciplines are related, they are still fairly distinct domains in terms of research.For example, an economist would be interested in why say, the Korean auto industry is more competitive than the British auto industry.But economics would generally not seek to explain why the Hyundai Motor company may be outperforming Jaguar Land Rover, something in which a management researcher would take more interest in (Nelson, 1991).And within the business domain, if a paper is about finance or say, consumer behavior, then it would also likely not be appropriate for a management journal (Ahlstrom, 2011;Baruch, 2016).Similarly, a paper providing a number of "how-to" steps on an operational topic in manufacturing would likely not be appropriate for most mainstream management journals, which generally do not publish such explanatory or training-type papers these days (Ahlstrom, 2010).On the other hand, papers on the performance of employees, teams, group decision-making and individual firms would probably be appropriate for a management or international business journal (Ahlstrom and Wang, 2009;Ahlstrom, 2011;Colquitt and George, 2011), though as noted, would not be right for say, an economics journal, which is more concerned with the performance of industries, firm clusters or national economies, not individuals or firms (Estrin and Bhaumik, 2016; Nelson, 1991) [2].In addition to accurately aligning a paper with the aims and scope of the journal (Ahlstrom, 2011;Baruch, 2016), there are other key factors in successfully writing a publishable research paper (Ahlstrom et al., 2013; Clark et al., 2016;Daft, 1995).These additional factors have also been the subject of past research and are just briefly addressed 1