About

We welcome contributions from:

•     Business executives and professionals, policy makers, business consultants, think tank experts and not-for-profit leaders with their wealth of knowledge and experience.
•     Our large alumni network, composed of professional leaders in a wide range of businesses, universities and third-sector organizations spread all over the world.
•     Researchers from LSE and other academic institutions in the UK and the world.

If you have previous or current academic research and/or insights that you can support with evidence (numbers, graphs, tables, or links to papers, news articles, surveys, etc, whenever they are available) and that are related to current issues with potential impact in the business world, we would like to hear from you. Please email the LSE Business Review team at businessreview@lse.ac.uk

Length

• 800-1000 words

Format

• We aim to use simple, direct and jargon-free language.
• Be aware of the curse of knowledge, which keeps knowledgeable people from being good at explaining things to audiences that don’t have the same knowledge foundation.
• Please send us your draft article in Word format, with your name at the top.

Referencing

• We use links rather than citations for references, and prefer Open Access sources to those behind paywalls. Links should direct readers to more detailed reports or other pieces of research, news items or other blog posts.
• Please insert hyperlinks.

Graphs and Charts

• We encourage the use of charts and figures. Graphs and charts are preferable to tables, as they are easier for readers to interpret quickly.
• Each chart needs a clearly labelled heading, labels for the X and Y axes or histogram bars, including units of measurement and a readable scale or background grid.
• There should be a clear legend distinguishing multiple data series from each other and a brief note on sources. Lines must be thick enough and distinctively coloured. Charts should use a numerical progression to make comparisons more visible

Bio and contributor photo

• Please send us a three- to four-line biographical note, with your academic position, research interests, books, etc.
• We also need a small colour professional headshot (portrait style).

First person 

The blog posts use the voice of the authors, so it’s ok to leave first person references, such as “my/our research”, “I/We believe”. It’s best when the authors use a more conversational tone.

Title and subtitle

We “own” the title and subtitle. This is very important, as we must ensure they fit our format and presentation style. You are welcome to send suggestions.

Time lag between submission and publication

We plan our content way ahead of time. It often takes weeks between submission and publication. We do try and publish posts as soon as possible, but have to allow ourselves a large time window in order to organise a varied selection of posts each week.

Caveats: 1) if your article does not fit our remit of business-relevant research and insights, we may ask you to rewrite it; and 2) owing to events and other circumstances beyond our control, we may have to change our posting order at very short notice.

Creative Commons and article sharing policy

Unless otherwise specified, all of our articles are also published under the Creative Commons licence, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) and other blogs and publications are free to use them, with attribution. LSE Business Review also also has agreements to share content with a number of other blogs, including those in the LSE Public Policy Group’s blog family and online journals:

If you do not wish for your article to be republished anywhere else, please let us know, otherwise, we will assume that you are happy for us to do this. Additionally, if you are concerned that your work has been posted on any site that is not listed above, please let us know by emailing the blog team at businessreview@lse.ac.uk

Role of the General Editor

As part of our processes, the blog team will refer the following types of articles to the General Editor (which may cause your blog’s publication to be delayed):

• Articles that are potentially libellous or defamatory
• Articles where the blog team has concerns about author’s potential conflicts of interest
• Articles that are insufficiently evidence-based or lacking in academic rigour
• Any other articles that may impact on the reputation of the author, the LSE, or the LSE Public Policy Group

In the hopefully rare cases where the General Editor cannot accept a blog post, authors can appeal to our Advisory Board and we will ask two members to adjudicate the issue.

If you have any questions about our policy, please let us know by emailing us at businessreview@lse.ac.uk

Patrick Dunleavy – General Editor. Patrick is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy in the Government Department at the LSE, where he has worked since 1979. He teaches mainly on the LSE’s Executive MPA and MPA programmes and is chair of the LSE Public Policy Group (PPG). Patrick is also Centenary Research Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. He studied PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and then took his D.Phil at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was also Research Fellow. Patrick has lead many PPG research projects funded by and working with major corporations, including the future of digital government for EDS and HP Enterprise Systems, governance reform for ICANN, and consultancy and MPA capstone projects with major consultancy firms. PPG also works closely with government agencies including recently the European Court of Auditors, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Patrick is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and has received two impact awards from the UK Political Studies Association (in 2003 and 2013). He is a board member of the Campaign for the Social Sciences. His two most recent books (co-authored) are The Impact of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2014) and Growing the Productivity of Government Services (Elgar, 2013). He tweets at @PJDunleavy and @Write4Research. Email: businessreview@lse.ac.uk

Helena Vieira – Managing Editor. Helena joined PPG in March 2015 to help set up the blog. She has lived and worked in four continents as a journalist and communications consultant. Her experience includes the roles of reporter and editor for international media organizations such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Brazil’s Globo group. She holds an M.A. in International Development from American University in Washington, D.C. and an M.Sc. in Strategic Communications from Columbia University in New York. She tweets at @helenavieira1. Email: businessreview@lse.ac.uk

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