About the Journal
The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) (ISSN Online: 2815-9330) is a fully open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal published online from New Zealand. We adhere to the highest scientific standards and follow a rigorous peer-review process. We welcome submissions from across the social sciences, economics, and humanities disciplines. IJBM aims to publish rigorous theoretical, methodological, or empirical research associated with the key areas of interest include, but are not limited to, business strategy and policy, entrepreneurship and innovation, finance and accounting, marketing and consumer behaviour, corporate governance and business ethics, operations and supply chain management, green finance and sustainable business, digital business and financial technologies (FinTech), human resources management, organisational studies, tourism, economics, international business, hotel and tourism, banking, financial engineering, international relations, IT management, media management, rural management, and agricultural business management. The journal aims to attract original knowledge based on academic rigour and of relevance for academics, researchers, professionals, and/or public decision-makers.
IJBM is published through OJS system and supported by International Emerging Scholars Society (IESS), New Zealand. IJBM assigns DOIs to all published articles, ensuring persistent links and citability. We are CrossRef and covered by the following databases and archives:
Indexing and Abstracting Services
- Google Scholar link
- DOI - CrossRef Metadata link
- Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) link
- Core UK link
- BASE - Germany link
- J-gate India link
- Scilit - Switzerland link
- Mendeley link
- Lens Australia link
- EuroPub Database link
- OpenAlex link
- Refseek link
- Asian Science Citation Index (ASCI database) link
- Academic Resource Index (Research Bib) link
- Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI) link
- Directory of Research Journals Indexing link
- Scientific Indexing Services (SIS) link
Journal Ranking Lists
Journal Directories
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (ProQuest) - USA link
- Electronic Journals Library (EZB), Germany link
- Journal Database (ZDB), Germany link
Repository Delivery Services
Digital Preservation
- Keepers Registry (ISSN Portal) — records and tracks long-term preservation of serials link
- PKP Preservation Network (PKP-PLN) — digital archiving service ensuring content is preserved and accessible link
- Internet Archive link
Content Aggregators / Library Catalogues
- National Library of New Zealand link
- Harvard Library, USA link
- Stanford University Libraries link
- University of California, Berkeley Library link
- Cornell University Library, USA link
- UC Santa Barbara Library, USA link
- University of Texas Arlington Libraries (UTA), USA link
- University of Saskatchewan Library, Canada link
- Boston University Libraries (BU), USA link
- The University of Kansas Libraries link
- Universiteit Leiden Library, Netherlands link
- Library Catalog - University of Regensburg, Germany link
- Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi UAE link
- University of Sheffield - StarPlus Library Discovery, United Kingdom link
- Anoox link
- Booksci.cn link
- Pluto Labs link
Others
- ORCID link
The journal is actively working towards inclusion in other prestigious databases like Scopus and Web of Science.
Want to join IJBM
If you are interested to join as a editorial board member, please email your expression of interest and a recent CV at Contact@iessociety.org
Special issue or Conference Proceedings
If you are suggesting a special issue or conference proceedings, please email your suggestions at Contact@iessociety.org
Publication Charges:
There are no submission or reviewing fees. Effective 1 April 2025, a USD 100 article processing charge (APC) will apply upon acceptance of the paper. This fee is set at modest level to cover essential operational expenses and support the journal’s open-access publishing model.
After making the payment, please email your payment receipt to contact@iessociety.org with your article title in the subject line.
Please note: APC fees are non-refundable once paid.
A discount or full waiver may be granted on a case-by-case basis, subject to prior approval.
Author’s Responsibilities
Authors may be asked to participate in the peer review process for other papers. All authors must understand that they have significantly contributed to the research. All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. Authors must list all references in order and also declare any financial support that they received. Authors must know that it is forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal.
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Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice
The editorial staff’s primary objective with regard to publication is to develop special ethical guidelines derived from those created by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). COPE began developing ethics for journal publication beginning in 1997; consequently, this group of experts has an accumulated wealth of experience in this area. The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) (ISSN Online: 2815-9330) chose to create its own ethical policy for the journal based upon COPE’s policy documents. more information
Policy on use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
This statement establishes the ethical framework for the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools and large language models (LLMs) in the submission, peer review, and editorial processes of the International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM). The policy is informed by the publishing ethics guidelines and core practices provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Elsevier and reflects our commitment to integrity, transparency, and accountability in scholarly publishing. More information
Retraction Guidlines
1.1. The policy of the “International Journal of Business and Management” regarding the retraction (withdrawal) of publications is based on the recommendation of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). More information
Plagiarism Policy
The publisher and International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) have a zero-tolerance plagiarism policy. We check the issue using two methods: a plagiarism prevention tool (Turnitin) and a reviewer check. All submissions will be checked by Turnitin before being sent to reviewers. More information
Peer-Review Policy
The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) (ISSN Online: 2815-9330) uses double-blind review. The reviews are advisory. Neither the editorial board nor the Editor-in-Chief enters into discussion with the authors of the results of the review.
To ensure this, authors should anonymize elements within the manuscripts that can reveal their identities, such as authors' names, institutional affiliations, contact information, and references to authors' own works. More information
Manuscript Withdrawal Policy
Occasionally, authors request to withdraw their manuscripts after submission, after acceptance, or even after publication. In some cases, such requests are made when the manuscript is only a few days away from publication or already accepted for publication. These actions cause significant inconvenience and result in a considerable loss of time and resources for the editors, reviewers, and the editorial staff. This will incur a penalty of USD50. More information
Open Access Policy
Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in the International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) is “open access”, meaning that:
- The full text of all articles is “Open Access, readily available for free, no embargo period, and no registration required to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. more information
License Terms
The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license was developed to facilitate open access, namely, it allows articles to be freely downloaded and to be reused and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. More specifically, anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles, create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations, or derivative works of or from an article, and mine the article even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s). more information
The Author Self-Archiving Policy
This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.
Copyright Notice
The International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.
Publication will be based on the following terms of the publishing agreement:
- Copyright will be attributed to the author(s).
- The author(s) assure the publisher that the material contained in the paper is not defamatory, unlawful, obscene, invasive of another person's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, abusive, threatening, harmful, or in contempt of court, and undertake to indemnify the publisher against any claims which may be made in situations where the material is considered to be any of these things, or has any of these effects.
- The author(s) assure the publisher that the paper presented is based entirely on original material and that it does not infringe anybody else's copyright. In the case of copyright material, such as the use of quotes or images beyond what is legally considered 'fair use', the author(s) and/or editor(s) will undertake to arrange, and if necessary to pay for, permissions, and retain documentation proving that these permissions have been secured. The author(s) agree to indemnify the publisher against any claims as a result of a breach of the copyright of others.
- Authors are permitted to deposit any (submitted, accepted, or published) version of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice.
- Authors shall permit the publisher to apply a DOI to their articles and to archive them in databases and indexes.
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