The journal's editors-in-chief are Renate Meyer and Paolo Quattrone.

It was established in 1980[1] and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).

Organization Studies accepts both empirical and conceptual articles.

In 2019, EGOS announced the creation of a new open access journal dedicated to review and conceptual articles, called Organization Theory, and edited by Joep Cornelissen.

[2] The journal played a prominent role in advancing New institutionalism.