Objectives

IJDSRM aims to cultivate a multidisciplinary, as well as a thorough and analytic approach, to management and decision-making. It sets out to achieve its aims by promoting high-quality research, integration of scientific methods and research agendas, and sharing of practitioner experience and insight, as applied in the context of decision sciences, risk and management. Explicit and multidisciplinary research in these areas is particularly encouraged.

In addition IJDSRM maintains an international scope and a high-standard refereeing process for achieving its objectives. The journal welcomes research that advances, extends, or combines explicit or multidisciplinary decision science, risk and management research into novel schools of thought, as well as seminal and niche-shaping approaches, that allow decision makers to gain better insights into structured or unstructured and complex management problems that extend from the operational level all the way to strategic.

Readership

IJDSRM shapes its content from the research needs of a wide-ranging, but tightly focused set of groups that are actively involved in shaping and advancing the decision making, risk and management fields, including academics and researchers from management, operations research, finance, economics, information systems and technology, as well as decision-making stakeholder groups including company executives, government and policy makers, entrepreneurs and SMEs, regional and international institutions, non-governmental organisations and public-private-partnerships worldwide.

Contents

IJDRSM publishes original papers, review papers, case studies and book reviews. Special Issues devoted to important topics in decision science, risk and management will occasionally be published.

Submission to the journal must have the following qualities:

1. Thought leadership: contributors need to have a very good understanding of the subject they present at both theoretical and applied levels
2. Real life problems: it is important to present problems that stem from the community and provide insights for the improvement of the lives of the stakeholders involved
3. Innovation: contributions should not be limited to presenting cutting-edge innovations but must also present ways of using and managing innovations
4. Impact: when submitting an idea, focus should be given to the impact it has at industry, academic, social and policy levels