Scope/Coverage

The scope and coverage of the journal includes but is not limited to:

• General management
• Financial management
• Organisational development and organisational change 
• Human resource management in contemporary business
• Marketing, sales and retail management
• Supply chain & logistics management
• Operations management
• Information & telecommunication management
• E-business, E-commerce, E-governance
• International Business
• Knowledge management
• Innovation and R&D management
• Management of technology for competitiveness
• New product and service design/development
• Strategic management
• Managerial economics
• Performance measurement and management
• Best practices and world-class organisations
• Project management
• Quality management and six sigma
• Risk management
• State-of-the-art business decision making techniques
• Quantitative modeling of contemporary business problem
• Qualitative research in business management
• Management of technical & management education
• New developments in research methodology and design, such as multi-criteria decision making tools and techniques, structural equation modelling, system dynamics, simulation, optimization and meta-heuristics tools such as random search algorithms, SAP-LAP and value chain analysis

Types of article to be published:

• research articles
• empirical studies,
• case studies,
• research notes,
• simulations,
• teaching notes and book reviews.

Key journal audiences

• R&D Establishments
• Research scholars and consultants in different management areas
• Policy makers and government establishments
• Management trainers
• Practitioners: CEOs; functional managers and project managers in Operations, Finance, Marketing, Human Resource Development & Organisation Management, Information & Telecommunication Management, etc.
• Libraries and information centres serving the needs of the above

The journal covers all the main management sub-disciplines including, for example, HRM, OB, International & Strategic Management, Operations Management, Management Sciences, Information Systems & Technology Management, Accounting & Finance, and Marketing. Each issue includes state-of-the-art literature review articles/surveys which examine the relevant literature published on a specific aspect of the sub-discipline, for example, HRM: Appraisal Systems.

The IJARM is deliberately targeted at a wide readership interested in business and management. The journal publishes authoritative literature surveys and reviews. Such papers are targeted at several key audiences or readerships:

• Members of the academic community who will expect to be kept abreast of disciplinary areas outside of their own specific domains of expertise.
• The journal will enable senior faculty to undertake more interdisciplinary research by providing a wider understanding or emerging thought and methodological developments in other fields, and by so doing, facilitating the development of transdisciplinarity.
• More established researchers who are looking to update their knowledge in their own particular field, or who are shifting their area of focus or developing collaborative or inter-disciplinary work extending beyond their established specialization.
• Supporting doctoral candidates in the production of their theses by producing comprehensive reviews/debates and to locate their research within past, present and future debates.