Aims and Scope
Aims
The Journal of Business Strategy and Management Review is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal that publishes original research, systematic and methodological reviews, and short communications in management science and strategic practice. The Journal serves as a platform for rigorous, applied, and theoretically grounded scholarship that addresses how organizations formulate strategy, organize and lead people, and sustain performance, together with the methods, data, and evidence that support such work.
The Journal aims to publish work that demonstrates originality, methodological rigor, reproducibility, and clearly articulated contributions to theory, method, or practice. It welcomes both single-method studies of high methodological quality and interdisciplinary work that draws on strategy, organization theory, economics, and the behavioral sciences together.
Scope
The Journal's scope is organized around three subject domains. The areas listed below are indicative rather than exhaustive; submissions outside these examples but within the broad subject domains are welcome.
Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
The Journal welcomes research on how firms position themselves and create value, including:
- Corporate, business, and competitive strategy
- Strategic decision-making and the resource-based view
- Industry analysis and competitive dynamics
- Mergers, acquisitions, alliances, and corporate restructuring
- Global business and international management
- Platform strategy and ecosystem competition
- Corporate governance and board effectiveness
- Business models, value creation, and value capture
- Strategy execution and performance management
- Nonmarket strategy, institutions, and stakeholder management
Organization, Leadership, and People
The Journal welcomes research on the human and structural dimensions of management, including:
- Organizational change and transformation
- Leadership and strategic human resource management
- Organizational behavior, culture, and climate
- Organizational design, structure, and coordination
- Teams, collaboration, and managerial decision processes
- Talent management and the future of work
- Knowledge management and organizational learning
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations
- Employee engagement, motivation, and well-being
Innovation, Transformation, and Sustainability
The Journal welcomes research on growth, renewal, and responsible business, including:
- Innovation management and entrepreneurship
- Digital transformation and technology adoption
- Sustainable and ESG-aligned business models
- Corporate social responsibility and business ethics
- Operations, supply chain, and value chain strategy
- Data-driven decision-making and analytics in management
- Circular economy and sustainability transitions
- Crisis management, organizational resilience, and risk
Examples of in-scope work
The following examples illustrate the range of work the Journal publishes:
- An empirical study of how dynamic capabilities shape firm performance during industry disruption
- A systematic review of leadership styles and organizational change outcomes
- A panel-data analysis of ESG disclosure and firm valuation
- A multiple-case study of platform business model evolution
- A meta-analysis of the antecedents of employee engagement
- A framework and instrument for measuring digital transformation maturity
- An event study of merger announcements and shareholder value
- A configurational analysis of the conditions for entrepreneurial firm growth
Out-of-scope and editorial discrimination
The Journal applies rigorous initial screening for scope-fit, methodological adequacy, and originality before sending manuscripts to peer review. The following categories of work are typically declined at desk-screen:
- Pure economics or finance theory with no management or strategy dimension
- Domain-specific application papers whose primary contribution belongs to computing, healthcare, or another applied field, which are better suited to the relevant sibling journals published by World Research Union
- Consulting reports, company case descriptions, or practitioner notes without a research contribution
- Empirical papers without adequate theory, method, or rigor
- Survey-style summaries without methodological synthesis or original analysis
- Speculative commentary on management trends without an empirical or methodological component
- Manuscripts reapplying standard models to standard datasets without a clear, generalizable contribution
Authors uncertain about scope-fit are encouraged to send a short pre-submission inquiry through the Contact page before preparing a full manuscript.
Article types
The Journal publishes the following article types. Detailed length, structure, and review expectations are described on the Author Guidelines page.
- Original Research Article: full-length empirical, methodological, or theoretical contribution with original findings
- Systematic or Methodological Review: structured synthesis following PRISMA, bibliometric, meta-analytic, or comparable established methodology
- Short Communication: concise report of a focused finding, including thematic syntheses, brief methodological notes, and timely results of immediate interest
- Editorial: by invitation only, authored by members of the Editorial Team or invited contributors
Particularly welcomed contributions
While the Journal accepts submissions across the full breadth of its subject domains, contributions in the following named sub-disciplines are particularly welcomed and align closely with the Journal's editorial expertise: corporate and competitive strategy, organizational change and transformation, leadership and strategic human resource management, innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainable and ESG-aligned business models, digital transformation, and mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances.
