Australian Journal of Management

The Australian Journal of Management (AJM) publishes high-quality management research from all major business disciplines that advances theory, informs policy, and addresses complex organisational and societal challenges.

Established in Australia in 1976, AJM upholds a tradition of integrity, pragmatism, and creative problem-solving. We recognise that today’s management problems are global in scope and we welcome contributions from all parts of the world.

AJM invites conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research that meets the standards of the world’s leading journals, with a special emphasis on problem-focused research. Our coverage reflects the breadth of management as articulated through business related disciplines taught, researched, and professionally practiced worldwide including (but not limited to) accounting, economics, finance, information systems, innovation and entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, management, operations and supply chain.

In addition to regular papers, AJM Editorial Initiatives intended to amplify our mission include:

• Special Issues
• Policy-Relevant Research, linking management scholarship to policy outcomes with actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
• Point–Counterpoint, offering informed scholarly debate on enduring managerial issues through contrasting perspectives
• Engaged Problematisation, promoting industry-led problematisation that surface new or understudied real-world managerial challenges and set research agendas for grand societal problems.

What we look for:

• Strong theoretical contribution
• Policy-relevant insights with clear recommendations
• Clear and substantive managerial relevance
• Clear and substantive societal relevance
• Credible research design and traceable empirical work (qualitative and/or quantitative)
• Transparency and methodological rigour and integrity
• Originality
• Clear writing that communicates with broad audiences

To ensure fit with our scope, AJM does not publish:

• Purely descriptive studies
• Descriptive literature reviews (excluding systematic and integrative reviews)
• Context-bound case studies without transferable insight
• Opinion essays lacking robust scholarly grounding
• Political viewpoints/essays and/or politically focused research
• Replications without theoretical extension
• Incremental findings
• Research with no significant contribution to theory and/or practice
• Empirical work lacking methodological transparency
• Research with limited or heavily constrained datasets (unless qualitative)

Submit your best work to AJM and contribute to shaping the future of management research, policy and practice.

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If you have any queries you wish to direct to the Editor-in-Chief, please contact Yichelle Zhang (ajm@unsw.edu.au) in the first instance.


All issues of Australian Journal of Management are available online.

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajm.