Publishing a research paper during a PhD in management

Publishing a research article during one's PhD is a major challenge. The publication process is presented as a long and complicated quest, a source of anxiety for PhD students. The chapter entitled "Publishing an article during your thesis: Knocking on heaven's door?” and co-authored in the book “The experience of the PhD in management” aims at demystifying this quest for the grail by exploring the different key steps of this process, while being honest about the difficulty of the task. In the chapter, we provide eight tips for young PhD students. We here present the four that have been the most unanimously mentioned: "Take the time to think about the need to publish during the PhD; "Focus on the contribution of your paper"; "Prioritize quality publications, while being free from rankings"