Publishing is a craft, like so many others. A series of five articles in Academy of Management Journal, where various editors come with recommendation for how to approach each part of the process from design to the final article.
Publishing in AMJ—Part 1: Topic Choice
Publishing in AMJ—Part 2: Research Design
Publishing in AMJ—Part 3: Setting the Hook
Publishing in AMJ—Part 4: Grounding Hypotheses
Publishing in AMJ—Part 5: Crafting the Methods and Results
Publishing in AMJ–Part 6: Discussing the Implications
Publishing in AMJ—Part 7: What’s Different about Qualitative Research?
(If you do not have access to AMJ, do a search for them online, there are many sites that have the PDF’s :)).