Aims and Scope

Aims

The Journal of Business Strategy and Management Review (JBSMR) publishes research on how organisations form strategy, lead people and sustain performance, and on the data and evidence behind those decisions. It takes original research, systematic and methodological reviews, and short communications.

Papers are judged on originality, sound method, transparent data and a clear contribution to theory or practice. Work that draws on strategy, organisation theory, economics and the behavioural sciences together is welcome, as is careful work within a single field.

Scope

The scope covers three subject areas. The lists below give examples and are not exhaustive; a paper outside them but inside one of the three areas will be considered.

Strategy and competitive dynamics

  • Corporate, business and competitive strategy
  • Business models, platforms and ecosystems, including product-as-a-service
  • Mergers, acquisitions, alliances and restructuring
  • International business and global management
  • Corporate governance, boards and stakeholder management
  • Strategy execution and performance management

Organisation, leadership and people

  • Organisational change and transformation
  • Leadership, including leadership in hybrid and AI-assisted settings
  • Strategic human resource management, organisational justice and employee voice
  • Organisational behaviour, culture and learning
  • Talent, engagement, well-being and the future of work

Innovation, sustainability and data-driven management

  • Innovation management and entrepreneurship
  • Digital transformation and technology adoption
  • ESG, circular economy and sustainable operations, including waste management
  • Operations, supply chain and value chain strategy
  • Analytics, AI and decision support in management
  • Risk, cybersecurity governance, crisis management and resilience

Examples of papers in scope

  • Regenerative indicators and multi-objective optimisation for ESG-aligned analytics in product-as-a-service models
  • Counterfactual auditing of AI-driven adaptive leadership during organisational transformation
  • A model linking organisational justice and employee voice in hybrid work
  • A machine learning framework for prioritising electronic-waste strategies in developing countries
  • A lightweight cybersecurity risk-scoring framework for industrial IoT networks
  • How reliance on AI erodes causal knowledge in firms and what that means for strategic renewal

Papers usually declined at the desk

Every submission is checked for fit, method and originality before it goes to reviewers. The following are normally declined at that stage:

  • Descriptive company profiles or consultancy reports without a research question
  • Surveys with no evidence of measurement validity or no attention to common method bias
  • Causal claims drawn from cross-sectional data without an identification strategy
  • Routine replications in a new country with no theoretical or practical contribution
  • Literature summaries that offer no methodological synthesis

If you are unsure whether a paper fits, send a short pre-submission enquiry through the Contact page.

Article types

  • Original Research Article. A full-length empirical, conceptual or methodological study with new findings.
  • Systematic or Methodological Review. A structured synthesis following PRISMA, bibliometric or a comparable method.
  • Short Communication. A concise report of a focused finding or a brief methodological note.
  • Editorial. By invitation only, written by the editors or invited contributors.

Length and format for each type are given in the Author Guidelines.