Aims & Scope

Aims

Impact Journal: Management, Business & Finance publishes research that explains how value is organised, created, and allocated in contemporary organisations and markets. We prioritise studies that are theory-grounded, methodologically transparent, and decision-relevant, offering insights that managers, entrepreneurs, and policy stakeholders can act on.

The journal particularly welcomes work that tackles modern business challenges—digitalisation and analytics, governance and risk, sustainability and responsible value creation, and shifting consumer and workforce dynamics—with special openness to evidence from emerging economies and under-represented contexts.

Scope

We consider original empirical research, systematic reviews (including bibliometric and meta-analytic studies), conceptual papers, and replication studies with value-added extensions. Submissions are especially encouraged when they:

• identify or test mechanisms (the “how/why”), not only associations,
• clarify boundary conditions (when effects hold or change), and
• translate findings into actionable implications for practice and/or policy.

Management (Organising and Performing)

Topic clusters include (but are not limited to):

• Strategy, innovation, change, and organisational resilience
• Leadership, HRM, employee experience, performance and productivity systems
• Operations, supply chains, quality, and project delivery under constraints
• Governance, organisational design, and control systems
• Data-driven management, analytics-enabled decision-making

Business (Creating and Delivering Value)

Topic clusters include (but are not limited to):

• Marketing, services, customer experience, and relationship infrastructure
• Platform and digital business, e-commerce, pricing and promotion dynamics
• Entrepreneurship, SMEs/MSMEs growth, ecosystems and market shaping
• International business and cross-cultural market strategy
• Responsible business and ethics with measurable organisational/market outcomes

Finance (Funding, Governing, and Allocating Value)

Topic clusters include (but are not limited to):

• Corporate finance, investment decisions, and performance consequences
• Banking, fintech, inclusion, and consumer/firm financial behaviour
• Capital markets, behavioural finance, and investor decision processes
• Risk management, compliance, and governance–finance linkages
• Accounting/auditing studies tied explicitly to business and financial outcomes

What we prioritise

• Clear novelty and contribution (theoretical and/or practical)
• Robust methods and transparent reporting
• Findings that travel across contexts through mechanisms and boundary conditions
• Strong implications for management practice and stakeholder decision-making

What we discourage

• Descriptive-only studies without explanatory contribution
• Weakly theorised surveys without a coherent logic model
• Manuscripts with unclear methods, limited transparency, or ethical concerns