International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran
- ISSN online
- 1741-8135
- ISSN print
- 1478-1484
- 4 issues per year
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
IJMCP is indexed in:
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- 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
IJMCP is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Honorary Editor in Chief
- Ahmed, Pervaiz K., Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Editor in Chief
- Gunasekaran, Angappa, Penn State Harrisburg, USA
(an.gunasekarangmail.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.
- There are no charges for publishing with Inderscience, unless you require your article to be Open Access (OA). You can find more information on OA here.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
Submission process
Journal news
Move along, move along, aren't these the sites you're looking for?
5 July, 2023
Star Wars is a series of science fiction fantasy movies and television shows. As is now quite common across movies and TV, the filming locations have become popular tourist destinations for fans of the franchise. Moreover, given the Disney buyout of the franchise from LucasFilms in 2012, the inevitable theme park attractions at Disney resorts are now a major pull for that kind of tourism too. The renowned science fiction franchise has become something of an international cultural phenomenon since the release of the first movie in 1977. It now attracts countless dedicated fans to places associated with the movies and spinoffs, such as TV shows, exhibitions, conferences, and film locations in Ireland, Norway, Tunisia, and elsewhere. Research in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy looks at Star Wars tourism as an intriguing example of movie and television-related tourism and sheds light on the positive and negative aspects of this kind of tourism. Dag Øivind Madsen of The University of South-Eastern Norway in Hønefoss, discusses the various examples of Star Wars filming locations and tourist destinations across the globe. His work suggests that these places have witnessed increased tourist interest due to their association with the iconic movie franchise [...]
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