About Journal

The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) since 2006. IJBM is dedicated to advancing rigorous, relevant, and impactful scholarship across the breadth of business and management, and provides a global platform where researchers, educators, and practitioners exchange theoretical insight, empirical evidence, and practical wisdom on the challenges organizations confront today.

IJBM serves a broad readership spanning the academic, practitioner, and policy-making communities. We are committed to publishing work that advances management theory while also informing real-world decision-making, and that — where relevant — speaks to the wider social and economic questions that organizations face. Its scope spans strategy, governance, and entrepreneurship; organization, leadership, and people; innovation, digital transformation, and marketing; corporate sustainability, ethics, and responsibility; and operations and value chains (see Focus and Scope for the full list).

All submissions undergo a double-anonymized peer review by at least two independent reviewers. As an open-access journal, every article is freely and permanently available online under a Creative Commons Attribution license, maximizing the reach and citability of published research.

Focus and Scope

IJBM publishes original research that addresses a substantive management problem, phenomenon, or decision. We welcome studies anchored in sound theory and robust empirical evidence, alongside well-argued conceptual and review contributions that reframe how we understand organizations and the people who comprise them. IJBM embraces methodological plurality: quantitative and qualitative work, mixed-methods designs, and rigorous conceptual or systematic-review articles are equally valued.

Topics within the journal's scope include:

• Strategic management and competitive advantage
• Corporate governance and board leadership
• Organizational design, change, and development
• Managerial and organizational decision-making
• Human resource management and talent management
• Employee engagement, motivation, and performance
• Leadership and organizational behavior
• Organizational culture, climate, and workplace diversity
• Entrepreneurship and new venture creation
• Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Innovation management and technology adoption
• Digital transformation and business model innovation
• Marketing strategy and brand management
• Consumer and buyer behavior
• International business and cross-cultural management
• Corporate sustainability, CSR, and ESG
• Business ethics and responsible enterprise
• Operations, supply chain, and project management

The journal also considers review articles, conceptual papers, and case studies within the areas above, and welcomes proposals for special issues on themes of contemporary significance.