International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy

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International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy (IJMCP)
Editor in Chief
Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran
ISSN online
1741-8135
ISSN print
1478-1484
4 issues per year

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Many ideas and many innovative and creative approaches to management are lost because of the intrinsic tendency to reject the new, the novel, the ground challenging and the ground-breaking idea. IJMCP encourages novel yet rigorously thought-out and rigorously developed ground-challenging and ground-breaking ideas and perspectives. It encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and diverse cross-pollination of thought and approaches to management practice.

Topics covered include

  • Definition of challenges/problems ahead
  • Development of new management concepts
  • Development/refinement of management tools/techniques
  • Critical evaluation of current management practices
  • New axiomatic principles/philosophical perspectives
  • Critical evaluation of assumptions/pre-suppositions/axioms of management
  • New drivers of business organisation/practice
  • New methodological perspectives/standpoints for management research
  • Future visions of business, lessons from the past
  • Description of evolutionary trajectories of management thought/practice
  • Examination of new corporate responsibilities/past management achievements
  • Clarification of new organisational structures, business forms
  • Shifts/developments in market/consumer behaviour
  • Thoughts on new strategies/philosophies
  • Challenge of transition from old to new forms

Objectives

The objectives of the IJMCP are to encourage and support development of new management thinking, concepts and paradigms for business management practice and philosophy. The journal will particularly encourage fresh solutions to critical management problems. As we move into the new millennium, the landscape of management challenges has changed, yet management thought is deeply embedded with concepts and philosophies from the era of the industrial revolution, steeped within one sided rational assumptions and philosophies that are universally applied. What is important at this juncture is to inject fresh and novel ways of looking at current problems, defining the challenges ahead, and searching for solutions to the problems that are likely to lie ahead. IJMCP aims to raise fundamental questions about current practice, ask questions that have yet to be asked and propose solutions.

Readership

Professionals, academics, researchers, and managers.

Contents

IJMCP will publish a range of conceptual and theory papers as well as empirical pieces that develop new or revise existing thought and practice. It will encourage pluralism and multidisciplinary thought by promoting a diversity of view by publications that challenge and develop current thinking and practice. IJMCP aims to do this through numerous routes; for example, by rigorous literature reviews, thought pieces, reflective commentary, or empirical evidence. The role of the journal is to be a platform for rigorous development of management thought, theory, concept and practice. IJMCP is:

  • Multi-disciplinary: addressing all aspects of management forms and function, encouraging cross-functional dialogue and encouraging a range of different approaches
  • Creative: publishing high quality work derived from innovative, rigorous critical enquiry that builds new ideas and developments
  • Integrative: linking, theory, concepts and practice

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Honorary Editor in Chief

  • Ahmed, Pervaiz K., Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia

Editor in Chief

  • Gunasekaran, Angappa, Penn State Harrisburg, USA
    (an.gunasekaran@gmail.com)

Associate Editor

  • Schinckus, Christophe, University of Leicester, UK

Editorial Board Members

  • Brown, John Seeley, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
  • Dehler, Gordon E., College of Charleston, USA
  • Graham, Gary, Leeds University Business School, UK
  • Hardaker, Glenn, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
  • Haynes, Michael J., University of Wolverhampton, UK
  • Kernaghan, Ken, Brock University, Canada
  • Klefsjö, Bengt, Luleå University, Sweden
  • Miller, Danny, HEC Montreal, Canada
  • Morelli, Carlo, University of Dundee, UK
  • Neergaard, Peter, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Nutt, Paul, The Ohio State University, USA
  • Rafiq, Mohammed, Loughborough University, UK
  • Simintiras, Antonis, University of Wales, UK
  • Talaq, Jaleel, Bahrain Training Institute, Bahrain
  • Tjosvold, Dean, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • Wang, Catherine L., Oxford Brookes University, UK
  • Wang, Yong, University of Wolverhampton, UK
  • Zaheer, Akbar S, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

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.
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    • Submission process

    • All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
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Journal news

Can mindfulness boost self-esteem for social media addicts?

6 March, 2023

Writing in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, a team from the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in Agra, India, have taken the view that social media addiction is a growing problem worth examination in a serious medical context and have shown that mindfulness might be used to improve user self-esteem even if those users continue in their extensive use of such online tools. Terms such as "addiction" and "dependency" have specific definitions in medicine but are often used more broadly in discussions of behaviour that may be problematic but do not necessarily meet the clinical criteria for addiction. However, there is evidence of problematic behaviour among many individuals who utilise social media on their computers and mobile devices [...]

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A paradigm shift in paradigm shifts

6 February, 2023

Researchers who present radical new theories are often ridiculed and their work rejected despite the evidence they provide because the new theory upsets the received wisdom or is so outside what is considered to be the accepted paradigm. But there is a third way forward that could allow radical new thinking to emerge without it being lambasted unnecessarily so that it can be judged wholly on its merits. Writing in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, a team from Australia and the UK discuss two well-known theories that too many years to be accepted into the mainstream. The first was the medical discovery that peptic ulcers and stomach cancer are not generally caused by stress but by infection with a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. The second was the social theory in management research that looked at how toxicity in the workplace can arise because of the presence of corporate psychopaths. Both "new" theories took many years to be accepted, both are now widely acknowledged [...]

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