European Journal of International Management
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Ilan Alon
- ISSN online
- 1751-6765
- ISSN print
- 1751-6757
- 12 issues per year
- Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2022 2.294 (5 Year Impact Factor 3.128)
- CiteScore 2.4 (2021)
JCI 0.49

EJIM is a leading journal with European and global perspectives, devoted to advancing international management research, practice and policy. Papers deal with regional, international or comparative issues affecting management scholars and practitioners. EJIM attempts to understand why and how firms manage the movement of people, information, money and products in the context of differing political, economic, social, ecological, competitive and technological environments. It seeks conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, qualitative and review papers advancing the field of international business and management.
Topics covered include
- X-Culture, global virtual teams
- International management
- International entrepreneurship and innovation
- International human resource and talent management
- International organisational communications and information systems
- International strategy and business policy
- International marketing management
- Methodological aspects in international and comparative research
- Cross-cultural management, language and leadership
- CSR, sustainability, international social enterprises, NGOs
- Comparative management systems
- Global spirituality and religion in management
- International value and supply chain management
- International management reviews and meta-analysis
- Expanded European-based contexts
Environment of International Management in Europe
- Globalisation and European developments
- Political and legal environments in Europe and their influence on managerial practices
- Social responsibility and European organisations
- European approach to ethical issues in management
International Strategy
- Foreign market selection
- Foreign market entry modes
- Internationalisation of European SMEs
- Strategic alliances and foreign direct investment in Europe or by European companies
International HRM
- Recruiting and selecting staff for international assignments
- Training and development
- Re-entry and career issues
- HRM in the host-country environment
Cross-cultural Management
- Management in the unified Europe
- Cultural diversity in Europe and its managerial implications
- Cross-cultural communication within and with Europe
- Cross-cultural negotiation styles
Leadership
- Leadership across cultures
- Leadership styles and their implications
- Global vs. local leadership
- Leadership development
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Objectives
The main objective of EJIM is to advance the theory and practice of international management in both the European and global contexts. EJIM is designed to serve a wider audience by also addressing the teaching and practicing communities, while still maintaining academic quality, relevance and rigour.
Readership
EJIM articles discuss new concepts, constructs, theories, techniques, strategies, models and trends that are of particular significance to academics actively involved in writing, teaching, consulting and training, as well as to practicing managers.
Contents
EJIM publishes original papers, case studies, literature reviews, commentaries and research notes. Special issues dedicated to important topics of international management will also be published on an occasional basis. Despite its European orientation, EJIM welcomes authors from all over the world and with varied professional training and backgrounds. Qualitative articles and case studies should have sufficient methodological rigour and demonstrate reliability and validity.
EJIM is indexed in:
- Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Social Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- Asian Digital Library
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
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- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
- The BFI lists
- Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide
- Cranfield School of Management list
- UGC (University Grants Commission)
- Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
- FNEGE Journal Ranking (The French Foundation for Management Education)
- FMS Journal Rating Guide
- HCERES (High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education)
- ICI World of Journals (Copernicus)
- JUFO
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
- VHB-JOURQUAL (Germany)
Editor in Chief
- Alon, Ilan, University of Agder, Norway
(ilan.alonuia.no)
Deputy Editor in Chief
- Richter, Nicole Franziska, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
(nicolesam.sdu.dk)
Chief Editorial Consultant
- Vaiman, Vlad, California Lutheran University, USA
Senior Editors
- Dabija, Dan-Cristian, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Elo, Maria, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Foroudi, Pantea, Middlesex University London, UK
- Gunkel, Marjaana, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Halaszovich, Tilo, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Jankowska, Barbara, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
- Jiménez, Alfredo, Kedge Business School, France
- Kraak, Johannes, KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, France
- Mayrhofer, Ulrike, Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Meyer, Natanya, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Nazarian, Alireza, University of Westminster, UK
- Pinheiro, Romulo, University of Agder, Norway
- Quer Ramon, Diego Francisco, University of Alicante, Spain
- Raškovič, Matevž, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Sarkis, Joseph, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Szymanski, Mike, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Russian Federation
- Taras, Vasyl, University of North Carolina, USA
- Villar, Cristina, University of Valencia, Spain
- Zhao, Shasha, University of Surrey, UK
Editorial Advisory Board
- Adler, Nancy J., McGill University, Canada
- Benito, Gabriel R.G., BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
- Boyacıgiller, Nakiye Avdan, Sabancı University, Turkey
- Child, John, University of Birmingham, UK
- Del Giudice, Manlio, University of Rome "Link Campus", Italy
- Evans, Paul, Insead, France
- Harrigan, Kathryn Rudie, Columbia Business School, USA
- Harzing, Anne-Wil, Middlesex University Business School, UK
- Lundan, Sarianna M., University of Bremen, Germany
- Mendenhall, Mark E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, USA
- Mudambi, Ram, Temple University, USA
- Oxelheim, Lars, Lund University, Sweden
- Puffer, Sheila M., Northeastern University, USA
- Rose, Elizabeth, University of Leeds, UK
- Santangelo, Grazia, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Schlegelmilch, Bodo B., Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Schuler, Randall, Rutgers University, USA
- Zahra, Shaker, University of Minnesota, USA
Editorial and Review Board
- Akbar, Yusaf, Central European University, Austria
- Akram, Umair, Peking University, China
- Al-Jindi, Nora, Dar Al-Hekma University, Saudi Arabia
- Almor, Tamar, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel
- Altman, Yochanan, Middlesex University, UK
- Andersen, Torben, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Anokhin, Sergey, St. Cloud State University, USA
- Apfelthaler, Gerhard, California Lutheran University, USA
- Assouad, Alexander, Belmont University, USA
- Azar, Goudarz, Brunel University London, UK
- Badar, Kamal, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Baldegger, Rico J., School of Management Fribourg, Switzerland
- Barzantny, Cordula, Toulouse Business School, France
- Basco, Rodrigo, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Bayraktar, Secil, Toulouse Business School, France
- Bobek, Vito, University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum, Austria
- Bouncken, Ricarda, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Bournois, Frank, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), France
- Branch, John D., University of Michigan, USA
- Briscoe, Dennis, University of San Diego, USA
- Brouthers, Keith D., King's College London, UK
- Bryla, Paweł, University of Lodz, Poland
- Burger-Helmchen, Thierry, University of Strasbourg, France
- Chandra, Yanto, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Chavan, Meena, Macquarie University, Australia
- Cheng, Joseph L., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Chiarvesio, Maria, University of Udine, Italy
- Choksy, Umair, University of Kent, UK
- Cicchiello, Antonella Francesca, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
- Cillo, Valentina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
- Collings, David G., Dublin City Unversity, Ireland
- Collinson, Simon, University of Birmingham, UK
- Conroy, Kieran M., Queen's University Belfast, UK
- Cooke, Fang Lee, Monash University, Australia
- Crespo, Nuno, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
- Dabic, Marina, Nottingham Trent University, UK and University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Daly, Shelly, Lindenwood University, USA
- DeLong, Debbie, Chatham University, USA
- Devinney, Timothy, University of Manchester, UK
- Dvouletý, Ondřej, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
- Fang, Tony, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Farooq, Muhammad Shoaib, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
- Filipe, José António, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
- Froese, Fabian Jintae, Yonsei University, South Korea and University of Goettingen, Germany
- Fronzetti Colladon, Andrea, University of Perugia, Italy
- Fuchs, Manfred, University of Graz, Austria
- Gajanova, Lubica, University of Zilina, Slovakia
- Gammelgaard, Jens, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- García-Machado, Juan J., University of Huelva, Spain
- Ge, Gloria, Griffith University, Australia
- Graca, Sandra, Eckerd College, USA
- Gugler, Philippe, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Gupta, Vishal K., University of Alabama, USA
- Gurkov, Igor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
- Guttormsen, David S. A., University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
- Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld, Molde University College, Norway
- Hamilton, Clovia, Winthrop University, USA
- Hatani, Faith, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Heilbrunn, Sibylle, Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
- Hilmersson, Mikael, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Horak, Sven, St. John's University, USA
- Jack, Robert, Macquarie University, Australia
- Jiang, Changmin, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Jin, Byoungho "Ellie", North Carolina State University, USA
- Jindra, Björn, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Karabati, Serdar, Bilgi University, Turkey
- Kibler, Bruce Alan, Gannon University, USA
- Kot, Sebastian, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
- Kottaridi, Constantina, University of Pireaus, Greece
- Kuivalainen, Olli, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland
- Kuznetsova, Olga, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Lange, Thomas, Australian Catholic University, Australia
- Latukha, Marina O., St. Petersburg University, Russian Federation
- Lecomte, Philippe, Toulouse Business School, France
- Lee, Jeoung Yul, Hongik University, South Korea
- Lemmergaard, Jeanette, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Littrell, Romie, Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
- Longo, Maria Cristina, University of Catania, Italy
- Lynden, Karen, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
- Ma, Jieqiong, Hofstra University, USA
- Mady, Tarek T., University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Magala, Slawomir Jan, Erasmus University, Netherlands
- Majerová, Jana, University of Zilina, Slovakia
- Martin-Rios, Carlos, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Mason, Michela C., University of Udine, Italy
- Matzler, Kurt, Innsbruck University, Austria
- McCarthy, Vikkie, Austin Peay State University, USA
- McDonnell, Anthony, University College Cork, Ireland
- McGuire, Steve, University of Sussex, UK
- McIntyre, John R., Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Mehta, Anju, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
- Mendiratta, Esha, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Menzies, Jane, Deakin University, Australia
- Minbaeva, Dana, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Mironko, Arkadiusz, Indiana University East, USA
- Mousa, Mohamed, WSB University, Poland
- Munim, Ziaul Haque, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
- Naoumova, Irina, University of Hartford, USA
- Napier, Nancy, Boise State University, USA
- Ong, Siow Heng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Ordeñana, Xavier, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
- Ott, Ursula F., Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Paliszkiewicz, Joanna Olga, Warsaw University of Life Science, Poland
- Panibratov, Andrei, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
- Panina, Dartia, Texas A&M Business School, USA
- Pauluzzo, Rubens, University of Udine, Italy
- Pelikánová, Radka MacGregor, Metropolitní univerzita Praha, Czech Republic
- Pla-Barber, José, University of Valencia, Spain
- Prastacos, Gregory, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Presbitero, Alfred, Deakin University, Australia
- Pudelko, Markus, Tübingen University, Germany
- Ramadani, Veland, South-East European University, Macedonia, F.Y.R.
- Ramirez, Jacobo, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
- Romanello, Rubina, University of Udine, Italy
- Ruigrok, Winfried, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
- Sackmann, Sonja, University Bw Munich, Germany
- Sarfati, Gilberto, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
- Schiavone, Francesco, University Parthenope of Naples, Italy
- Schlägel, Christopher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
- Schomaker, Margaret, Université Laval, Canada
- Schrager, Jim, University of Chicago, USA
- Schøtt, Thomas, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Segalla, Michael, HEC School of Management, Paris, France
- Servais, Per, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Shih, Tsui-Yii, National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan, Province of China
- Shoham, Aviv, University of Haifa and Mishmar Haemek, Israel
- Skvarciany, Viktorija, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
- Slusarczyk, Beata, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
- Solesvik, Marina Zhuravlyova, Nord University, Norway
- Sroka, Włodzimierz, WSB University, Poland and North West University, South Africa
- Starnawska, Marzena, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Suutari, Vesa, University of Vaasa, Finland
- Svirina, Anna, Kazan National Research Technical University, Russian Federation
- Tapachai, Nirundon, Kasetsart University, Thailand
- Tarba, Shlomo Y., University of Birmingham, UK
- Tatoglu, Ekrem, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
- Tavoletti, Ernesto, University of Macerata, Italy
- Tchorek, Grzegorz, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Terpstra Tong, Jane L.Y., Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Tjiptono, Fandy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Tolstikov-Mast, Yulia, Indiana Tech, USA
- Trapczynski, Piotr, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland
- Treviño, Len J., Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Vveinhardt, Jolita, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
- Wach, Krzysztof, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
- Warmenhoven, Robert, HAN University of Applied Science, Netherlands
- White III, George O., University of Michigan-Flint, USA
- Wilmsmeier, Gordon, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Yang, Zaili, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- Zakaria, Norhayati, University of Wollongong, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Zvereva, Olga, Hotel School, Latvia
- Zwerg-Villegas, Anne Marie, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
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