Business Management: Subject-Specific Journals

The mission of Annals is to publish up-to-date, in-depth and integrative reviews of research advances in management. Often called “reviews with an attitude,” Annals papers summarize and/or challenge established assumptions and concepts, pinpoint problems and factual errors, inspire discussions, and illuminate possible avenues for further study. Reviews published in Annals move above and beyond descriptions of the field – they motivate conceptual integration and set agendas for future research.

The mission of Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) is to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice. All empirical methods including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed methods are welcome. To be published in AMJ, the research must make strong empirical and theoretical contributions and the manuscript should highlight the relevance of those contributions to management practice. Authors should strive to produce original, insightful, interesting, important, and theoretically bold research that demonstrates a significant “value-added” contribution to the field’s understanding of an issue or topic.

The mission of Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) is to inform current and future “thought leaders” who, through their leadership, teaching, consulting, and/or other professional activities have the potential to influence management practice and policy. These include educators and their students, business writers, consultants, executives, policy makers, and other practitioners seeking innovative, evidence-based approaches for addressing timely and important management issues.

The mission of AMR is to publish theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations. Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that develop testable knowledge-based claims. To do this, researchers can develop new management and organization theory, significantly challenge or clarify existing theory, synthesize recent advances and ideas into fresh, if not entirely new theory, or initiate a search for new theory by identifying and delineating a novel theoretical problem. The contributions of AMR articles often are grounded in “normal science disciplines” of economics, psychology, sociology, or social psychology as well as nontraditional perspectives, such as the humanities.

Business Strategy and the Environment is a leading sustainable business journal aiming to advance the understanding of green business strategies for improving the natural environment. Covering topics including corporate environmental management, eco-innovation, green finance, and the circular economy, the journal welcomes contributions which examine the role of environmental regulation and policy in the business sector.

Strategy management involves understanding the forces and causes that explain performance differences between organisations, a result of different stocks of knowledge-based resources and capabilities. The intellectual capital literature focuses on the measurement of firms'knowledge base. It also addresses building guidelines for the development of ''intellectual capital accounts''. IJLIC covers the latest advances on organisational learning, knowledge management and intellectual capital measuring and reporting. It promotes ways in which these impact on firms'competitive advantage in the New Economy.

"The International Journal of Management, Business, and Economics" is a prestigious publication that serves as a global platform for scholarly discourse and research dissemination in the realms of management, business, and economics. This journal is dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering innovation in these fields by publishing high-quality research papers, empirical studies, theoretical frameworks, and practical insights.

ournal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice aims to make a difference at the very frontier of organizational theory and practice development with a particular focus on change management and leadership as processes rather than as roles alone. Its intention is to contribute to the development of new conventions in addressing contemporary organizational and societal transitions and challenges. As a case in point, we wish to facilitate the study of agency through collective leadership in practice rather than in the traits and skills of formal agents and leaders.

The Journal of Intellectual Capital publishes the latest rigorous research on creating, identifying, managing, measuring, and securing factors that determine an organization’s value, including relational, structural, and human capital.

The Journal of Intellectual Capital publishes the latest rigorous research on creating, identifying, managing, measuring, and securing factors that determine an organization’s value, including relational, structural, and human capital.

The top-ranked journal in the field of international business, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) is multidisciplinary in scope and interdisciplinary in content and methodology, publishing content from across the eight sub-domains of international business studies:

(1) the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of multinational enterprises; (2) interactions between multinational enterprises and other actors, organizations, institutions, and markets; (3) the cross-border activities of firms (e.g., intrafirm trade, finance, investment, technology transfers, offshore services); (4) how the international environment (e.g., cultural, economic, legal, political) affects the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of firms; (5) the international dimensions of organizational forms (e.g., strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions) and activities (e.g., entrepreneurship, knowledge-based competition, corporate governance); (6) cross-country comparative studies of businesses, business processes and organizational behavior in different countries and environments; (7) industry 4.0 in IB (e.g., the profound effects that 4.0 technologies have on the governance, the strategies, the structures and the organizational functioning of internationally operating firms); and (8) global sustainability (e.g., how ESGD performance indicators, environmental and climate change impact mitigation, and a variety of dimensions of distributional justice – the equity, diversity and inclusion movements throughout the world – affect the functioning of internationally operating firms).

The Journal of Management (JOM) is committed to publishing scholarly empirical and theoretical research articles, that have a high impact on the management field as a whole. The journal encourages new ideas or new perspectives on existing research. The journal covers such areas as Business strategy & policy, Organizational behavior, Human resource management, Organizational theory, Entrepreneurship & Research Methods

The Journal of Management Studies is a globally respected, multidisciplinary business and management journal with a long-established history of excellence in management research. We publish innovative empirical and conceptual articles which advance the fields of management and organization, welcoming contributions relevant to organization theory, organizational behaviour, human resource management, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, innovation and critical management studies. We have an inclusive ethos and open to a wide range of methodological approaches and philosophical underpinnings.

The Journal of Sustainable Business offers a unique platform for the latest theoretical and empirical research, as well as innovative concepts for sustainable business strategies that create shared value for both business and society. The journal features best practices, original research, literature reviews, case studies, and leading foresight thinking in the fields of business and society, making the latest management approaches accessible to academics from various disciplines, business leaders, and research students. It aims to bridge gaps from diverse perspectives on sustainability challenges such as financial crises, climate change, demographics, and business disruptions, fostering a broad, trans-disciplinary, and intercultural discussion on the role of business in society.

The Journal seeks to publish research that advances new theoretical directions and new ways of thinking about International Business phenomena.

The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon, how to study it, as well as its practical implications.

The journal seeks contributions from various disciplinary perspectives, including psychology broadly defined (i.e., industrial-organizational, social, evolutionary, biological, differential), management (i.e., organizational behavior, strategy, organizational theory), political science, sociology, economics (i.e., personnel, behavioral, labor), anthropology, history, and methodology. Equally desirable are contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Organization & Environment publishes rigorous and impactful research on organizing and management for sustainability. In service of this mission, it searches for contributions to academic debates that are grounded in sound social science and that have managerial implications, and beyond (policy, research, social, etc. implications).

Organizational Research Methods (ORM) was established to bring relevant methodological developments to researchers working in organizational sciences. ORM’s goal is to enhance the use of current and new methodologies to advance theory and research practice.

Organization Science is widely recognized as one of the top journals in the fields of strategy, management, andorganization theory. The journal publishes groundbreaking research about organizations, including their processes, structures, technologies, identities, capabilities, forms, and performance.

The South African Journal of Business Management publishes articles that have real significance for management theory and practice. The content of the journal falls into two categories: managerial theory and management practice:

Management theory is devoted to reporting new methodological developments, whether analytical or philosophical. In general, papers should, in addition to developing a new theory, include some discussion of applications, either historical or potential. Both state-of-the-art surveys and papers discussing new developments are appropriate for this category.
Management practice concerns the methodology involved in applying scientific knowledge. It focusses on the problems of developing and converting management theory to practice while considering behavioural and economic realities. Papers should reflect the mutual interest of managers and management scientists in the exercise of the management function. Appropriate papers may include examples of implementations that generalise experience rather than specific incidents and facts, and principles of model development and adaptation that underline successful application of particular aspects of management theory. The relevance of the paper to the professional manager should be highlighted as far as possible.

The Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish papers that ask and help to answer important and interesting questions in strategic management, develop and/or test theory, replicate prior studies, explore interesting phenomena, review and synthesize existing research, and evaluate the many methodologies used in our field. SMJ also publishes studies that demonstrate a lack of statistical support in a particular sample for specific hypotheses or research propositions.

mportant phenomena do not stop at boundaries - neither the boundaries of academic disciplines nor geographical ones. That is why Strategic Organization (SO) provides an interdisciplinary, international, methodologically pluralist forum for high-quality conceptual and empirical research contributing to better understanding the interrelated dynamics of strategic and organizational processes and outcomes.

Strategy Science seeks to publish outstanding research directed to the challenges of strategic management in both business and non-business organizations. The journal is eclectic with respect to methodologies, including field-based work, large-sample empirical work, and computational and analytic models. Strategy Science is open to a wide variety of underlying disciplinary approaches including economics, operations research, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) is an international and cross-disciplinary, scholarly, open access journal of technical, environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of human beings, which provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development. As a peer-reviewed and semimonthly journal, Sustainability publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes, with no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.

The Journal of Cleaner Production serves as a platform for addressing and discussing theoretical and practical cleaner production, encompassing environmental, and sustainability issues in corporations, governments, education institutions, regions, and societies.