AMR的使命是发表理论见解，促进我们对管理和组织的理解。提交到AMR的论文必须扩展理论，以开发可测试的基于知识的声明。要做到这一点，研究人员可以开发新的管理和组织理论，显著地挑战或澄清现有的理论，将最近的进展和想法综合成新的(如果不是全新的)理论，或者通过识别和描述一个新的理论问题来开始寻找新的理论。AMR文章的贡献通常基于经济学、心理学、社会学或社会心理学的“正常科学学科”以及人文学科等非传统视角。
The mission of AMR is to publish theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations. Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that develop testable knowledge-based claims. To do this, researchers can develop new management and organization theory, significantly challenge or clarify existing theory, synthesize recent advances and ideas into fresh, if not entirely new theory, or initiate a search for new theory by identifying and delineating a novel theoretical problem. The contributions of AMR articles often are grounded in “normal science disciplines” of economics, psychology, sociology, or social psychology as well as nontraditional perspectives, such as the humanities.
