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All submissions must be made online at https://www.xcdsystem.com/sma/abstract/index.cfm no later than April 27, 2020 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. The deadline is firm and no extensions will be granted.

Only complete papers should be submitted. Incomplete or undeveloped papers will be returned without review.

Authors are expected to abide by the SMA Code of Ethics, available at www.southernmanagement.org/?page=Code.

Before entering SMA's blind review process, all submitted papers will be evaluated via electronic plagiarism software (self and others). Papers that do not pass this evaluation will be returned to the authors and will not be entered into the blind review process.

Submitted papers must not have been previously presented or scheduled for presentation, nor published or accepted for publication. Submitted papers may be submitted to a journal (but not a conference) after the SMA submission deadline, but must not appear online or in print before the 2020 SMA meeting. Subsequent publication, with proper acknowledgement, is encouraged.

If a paper is accepted, at least one author (for panel discussions, every author) must register and present the work at the conference. If at least one author of an accepted paper is not registered for the conference by September 29, 2020, the paper will be removed from the program.

The maximum length of paper submissions is 30 pages. This limit includes the entire paper (body of the text, notes, appendices, abstract, references, tables, and figures). Manuscripts should be double spaced with 1 inch margins on all four sides. The page setup should be for standard U.S. letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). Manuscripts should be prepared in Times New Roman font, size 12.

Paper format should follow the Journal of Management's Style Guide found at https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JOM/JOM_Style_Guide_revised_2017.pdf Nonconforming submissions will be returned without review.

The entire paper must be in a single document, typically created in Microsoft Word and then converted into an Adobe pdf file for final submission. Be sure to remove the paper title page before saving the document as a pdf file. Paper submissions will be blind reviewed; thus, no author names or other identifying information should appear anywhere in the manuscript (not even on the title page). Please right click on the final Adobe pdf file, go into "Properties," then "Additional metadata," and delete all author, title and paper metadata information (keyword information can be left in the document). Submitters also must remember to remove embedded or hidden comments, track changes, color changes, and highlighting unless appropriate and necessary for the submission. Symposia, panel discussions, and PDI submissions can contain author information, as these are not blind-reviewed.