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name: journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science
description: Use when targeting Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) or deciding whether a marketing manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
---

# Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science)

## Journal positioning

JAMS is the journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and an FT50 venue, a broad marketing-science outlet with particular strength in marketing strategy, B2B, and relationship marketing. It publishes theory-grounded work supported by rigorous empirics — papers that advance marketing theory and yield substantive, generalizable implications for marketing practice. It sits alongside JM/JMR in scope but is especially receptive to strategy, channels, salesforce, and inter-organizational topics. Readership is the broad marketing-science and marketing-strategy community.

This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AMS / publisher site and the submission system.

## When to trigger

- The author names JAMS (or the AMS / FT50 broad-marketing-science tier) as the venue.
- A marketing-strategy, B2B, channels, salesforce, or relationship-marketing paper needs positioning for a theory-plus-empirics outlet.
- A general marketing paper that is strong but somewhat narrower than the JM flagship needs an excellent home.
- The author needs JAMS's desk-reject risks and a credible JM / JMR / Marketing Science alternative list.

## Scope & topic fit

- Marketing strategy and its performance consequences; the marketing–firm/marketing–finance interface.
- B2B and industrial marketing, channels and distribution, sales management, and relationship/inter-organizational marketing.
- Branding, services, retailing, international and digital marketing, and customer management, framed for broad relevance.
- Theory development and meta-analysis/review pieces that consolidate and advance marketing knowledge.

## Method & evidence bar

- Theory-grounded contribution: clear conceptual framework or theory development supported by rigorous empirical testing.
- Method-pluralistic — SEM/survey, experiments, econometrics, meta-analysis — held to current standards for measurement validity, identification, and robustness.
- Survey-based work must address common-method bias, construct validity, and endogeneity credibly; modeling work needs identification and robustness.
- Substantive, generalizable managerial implications must follow from the analysis.

## Structure & house style

- The front end frames a theoretical gap and its managerial significance; conceptual model and hypotheses are developed with explicit logic.
- A strong JAMS paper closes with contributions to marketing theory and specific, evidence-based implications for managers.
- JAMS uses a structured abstract and expects a web/online appendix for measures, robustness, and supplementary analyses.
- Writing balances theoretical rigor with accessibility to a broad strategy-oriented marketing readership.

## Official-submission checklist

- Before giving submission-ready advice, read `../../resources/source-basis.md` and `../../resources/official-source-map.md`; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked.
- Search the live site for "Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science submission guidelines / author instructions" and follow the current AMS/publisher version.
- Re-check structured-abstract format, length limits, anonymization for double-blind review, reference style, and the supplementary-materials requirement.
- Re-check current data/code transparency, ethics/IRB, pre-registration, and AI-use disclosure policies.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

## Pre-submission self-check

- [ ] One sentence stating the theory-grounded contribution and its managerial significance.
- [ ] The conceptual model and hypotheses follow from explicit theoretical logic.
- [ ] Measurement validity, common-method/endogeneity concerns, and robustness meet current standards.
- [ ] The introduction positions the paper against recent JAMS / top-tier marketing work.
- [ ] Structured abstract, measures, supplementary materials, and disclosures match the current JAMS guide.

## Common desk-reject triggers

- A survey/SEM study with weak constructs, unaddressed common-method bias, or no endogeneity treatment.
- A thin conceptual contribution dressed as theory development.
- An applied finding with no generalizable theory or managerial payoff.
- A purely behavioral-process or pure-modeling paper better suited to a specialist venue.

## Re-routing decision

- Broadest substantive/managerial flagship reach → `journal-of-marketing`; methods/measurement or behavioral rigor as headline → `journal-of-marketing-research`.
- Analytical/structural IO modeling → `marketing-science`.
- Consumer-behavior theory with process evidence → `journal-of-consumer-research`; psychological-process consumer work → `journal-of-consumer-psychology`.

## Output format

```text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <is the theory + empirics at JAMS's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / structured abstract / length / supplementary materials / disclosure>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
```