The Journal of Management Studies is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCO, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Research Papers in Economics, and Emerald Management Reviews.

[11] The prize recognises authors who have published particularly innovative management scholarship in their PhD thesis.

The Award "aims to promote and recognize innovative PhD research in management and organization studies"[12] and "does not specify any preferences towards topics or methods".

[15] Since its foundation, it has considerably expanded its remit, in collaboration with the journal: it organises regular conferences,[16] delivers awards, and co-operate with other bodies such as the British Academy of Management to award grants such as the SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building Grants.

There are 17 trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies - including Bill Harley (chair), Sabina Siebert (deputy chair), Robert Blackburn (treasurer), Elena Antonacopoulou, Julia Balogun (the dean of the University of Liverpool School of Management), Andrew Corbett, Joep Cornelissen, Rick Delbridge, Timothy Devinney, Annabelle Gawer, Paula Jarzabkowski, Wendy Loretto (dean of the University of Edinburgh Business School), Terry McNulty, Klaus Meyer, Thomas Roulet, Bill Starbuck, Christos Tsinopoulos.