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
  • 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
  • Roy, Matthew, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA
  • 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.

    • Submission process

    • All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
    • View Author guidelines.


Journal news

Is silence golden?

8 July, 2024

Research in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy has looked at the concept of "fight-or-flight", a behavioural theory that was first proposed by American physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon in 1915. The idea also "hyperarousal" or the "acute stress response" is an animal's physiological reaction to threats and is a survival response to that threat. Vidar Top, Carl Åberg, and Ole Boe of the University of South-Eastern Norway, have focused on fight-or-flight in the context of human conflict. They have undertaken a comprehensive literature review and carried out a comparative concept analysis to develop a unified understanding of how people react under pressure. The fight-or-flight concept has underpinned our understanding of animal behaviour and our own actions for more than a century. The concept has also evolved in that time and been applied to many different situations from one on one interactions, conflicts in the workplace, and at the international level. The team points out that despite extensive research, there remain inconsistencies and competing arguments about how emotions like anger and fear affect our behaviour. In order to address these inconsistencies, the team has analysed various word pairs related to the fight-or-flight response, finding that the terms "violence" and "silence" are common reference points that can encapsulate much of the behaviour associated with fight-or-flight. This, the team suggests, might unify diverse research perspectives and so could help with cross-disciplinary collaboration [...]

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