International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
- Editor in Chief
- Associate Prof. Nicola Cucari
- ISSN online
- 1741-802X
- ISSN print
- 1477-9048
- 6 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.5 (2024)
As the world becomes increasingly dominated by interconnected corporations alongside increasing demands for transparency and accountability, business governance is no longer just about running companies and organisations efficiently, but about managing wider responsibilities. Company directors need to move beyond governance concerns that deal with their functional responsibilities towards understanding how their personal values and actions affect the organisations they lead, and how in turn these affect local and global communities. IJBGE provides a professional forum to address these issues.
IJBGE is an Open Access-only journal and article processing charges (APCs) apply.
Topics covered include
- Philosophies, theories, governance structures
- Composition, tasks, behaviours, effectiveness of Boards
- Selection, remuneration, motivation of Boards/Executives
- Legal/statutory requirements of Boards
- Values, actions, behaviours of business leaders
- Strategies for effective stakeholder governance
- Stakeholder accounting/measurement of business actions
- Ethics of business actions, values/assumptions of business
- Social/societal implications of corporate wealth, power, domination
- Reconciling employee/business/community rights
- Government-business relationships and public accountability
- Challenge of ownership and responsibility
Objectives
IJBGE aims to critically explore business and managerial strategies, actions, responsibilities and accountabilities for survival in a highly transparent and dynamic global world.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers, and managers .
Contents
IJBGE publishes high quality papers from a wide variety of disciplinary orientations on the general subject of business governance and ethics. The journal style and dialogue will be inclusive and attempt to involve all those who are interested in issues of business governance and ethics: business leaders, managers, employees, stockholders, business regulators (government agencies, national and international), consumer groups, and academics.
The journal will publish theoretical (literature review based), empirical (work surveys and case studies) and critically reflective work (thought-leadership commentaries) describing and developing pertinent insights into the broad subject matter. The style will be, as far as possible, free from specialist jargon.
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- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- Asian Digital Library
- Business Economics and Theory Collection (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- EconLit (American Economic Association)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- RePEc
IJBGE is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Honorary Editor
- Ahmed, Pervaiz K., Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Editor in Chief
- Cucari, Nicola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(nicola.cucari
uniroma1.it)
Associate Editor
- Bart, Christopher K., The Not-For-Profit Governance Institute, Canada
Editorial Board Members
- Bassyouny, Hesham, University of Southampton, UK
- Birch, David, Deakin University, Australia
- Birindelli, Giuliana, Pisa University, Italy
- Callaghan, John, University of Salford, UK
- Clarke, Thomas, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- De Bettignies, Henri C., INSEAD, France
- Edgeman, Rick L., Aarhus University, Denmark
- Farquhar, Stuart, University of Northampton, UK
- Hinna, Alessandro, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
- Ingley, Coral, AUT University, New Zealand
- Kakabadse, Nada K., University of Reading, UK
- Koufopolous, Dimitrios, University of London, UK
- Kowalski, Tadeusz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Leblanc, Richard, York University, Canada
- Massoud, Hiba, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
- Morais, Filipe M.A., Henley Business School, UK
- Pennetta, Daniela, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Perez, Eloisa, MacEwan University, Canada
- Pierce, Chris, University of Lincoln, UK
- Smallman, Clive, Lincoln University, New Zealand
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- This is an Open Access-only journal. There is an article processing charge of US $1600 to publish in this journal. You can find more information on Open Access here. Authors who have submitted articles prior to 25 June 2025 will still have a choice of publishing as a standard or an Open Access article.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
Submission process
Journal news
Associate Prof. Nicola Cucari appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
4 September, 2025
Associate Prof. Nicola Cucari from Sapienza University of Rome in Italy has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics.
IJBGE's former Editor in Chief, Dr. Stuart Farquhar, will remain on the journal's board. Inderscience's Editorial Office thanks Dr. Farquhar for his leadership, editorial insight and commitment, all of which have played integral roles in shaping IJBGE and enabling its success.
Inviting applications for board membership with the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
24 September, 2025
Prof. Nicola Cucari, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, is currently seeking new members to join IJBGE's Editorial Board, as well as Associate or Regional Editors. These voluntary roles offer a unique opportunity to contribute to advancing high-quality research in governance, ethics, transparency, accountability and responsibility in business and society.
If you are interested, please complete this short online form:
Apply here
Prof. Cucari welcomes you to share this invitation within your professional network, and thanks you for your time and consideration. He looks forward to receiving applications and your support in strengthening IJBGE's global academic community.
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