Presents a distinct scholarly question and original findings, with methods, analysis and evidence reported in enough detail for critical assessment.
Aims & Scope
EJSIR Journal of Business, Management and Innovation
Publishes research on business, management, innovation, organizational behaviour, markets and operations. Contributions should articulate the organizational or market question, engage relevant scholarship and provide contextualized evidence for theoretical or practical implications.
Journal aim and scope
The journal aims to publish research that advances understanding of organizations, management, markets and innovation. It welcomes theoretical, empirical and methodological contributions with clear relevance to business practice, organizational analysis or the scholarly understanding of economic activity. The central contribution should fit at least one of the journal’s academic sections and be meaningful to readers in business, management and innovation.
Appropriate approaches include theory development, case studies, surveys, interviews, experiments, archival data, quantitative analysis and mixed methods. Authors should explain case or sample selection, instruments, data handling and analytical choices, and consider context, bias and limitations. Authors should define the research question, connect the approach to the question, describe sources or materials and analytical choices, and provide enough information for critical assessment. Interdisciplinary work is welcome when its relevance to the journal is clear and the methods used for each component are explained.
Interpretations and claims should follow from the reported evidence. Authors should identify uncertainty, limitations and alternative explanations where relevant, and distinguish demonstrated results from implications or future work. Studies involving people, animals, sensitive data or protected material should describe applicable ethics, consent, privacy and permissions.
Business recommendations unsupported by evidence, descriptive company accounts without analysis, and general claims based on an unexamined single context fall outside scope. Manuscripts outside the listed sections or lacking an assessable scholarly contribution may be declined at editorial screening. The section descriptions below provide more detailed guidance on topic fit.
Academic sections
The scope is organized into named sections so authors can identify the closest disciplinary route. Review each section description before selecting a journal.
Innovation ManagementOperations ManagementStrategyEntrepreneurshipTechnology ManagementSupply Chain ManagementDigital TransformationOrganizational AnalyticsProject ManagementSustainable Business
Article types
Article type does not by itself determine suitability. The manuscript must fit the journal’s subject scope and meet the relevant standards for evidence, reporting, ethics and transparency.
Synthesizes relevant scholarship to clarify the state of knowledge, compare interpretations and identify well-supported questions for further study.
Uses a clearly defined question and reproducible search, selection and synthesis methods, with the evidence base and limitations reported transparently.
Reports a focused result, observation or method whose concise presentation is useful to the field and supported by appropriate evidence.
Describes a practical method, instrument, workflow or technical refinement, explaining its operation, context and performance or validation.
Develops a reasoned scholarly interpretation of an important topic, distinguishing evidence from opinion and acknowledging relevant uncertainty.
Introduces a research dataset, software or other scholarly resource, documenting its provenance, structure, access conditions and quality checks.