International Journal of Services, Economics and Management
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Natalia Kryvinska
- ISSN online
- 1753-0830
- ISSN print
- 1753-0822
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.2 (2021)

IJSEM proposes and fosters discussion on empirical and theoretical work on services economics and management. The journal seeks to provide a bridge between those conducting research on service economics and management on the one hand, and those working in the areas of service sectors on the other.
Topics covered include
- Public service management, policy, comparisons, evaluation
- Public economics
- Service concepts, strategies, marketing and innovation
- Service operation and simulation
- New service development and process design
- Service supporting facilities, customer relationship management
- Service supply chain management
- Service project and quality management
- Service system design, operations, management, security, reliability
- ICT in services, e-commerce
- Service delivery, deployment, maintenance
- Human resources management in services
- Relationship between manufacturing and services
- Service in-housing versus outsourcing decisions
- Services in society, ethics and culture
Objectives
The objectives of IJSEM are to encourage original scientific contributions on the challenges of economic and management issues in service sectors, with particular emphasis on the application of economic theory and management science and methods of quantitative analysis. It aims to draw together and learn lessons from the development of service sectors across the world, and provides a forum for discussion of service sectors of interest to an international readership.
Readership
IJSEM provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work. It is aimed at all practitioners and researchers in service sectors. It will also be of interest to anyone involved in provision of service programmes, the management of service organisations and those who contribute to service systems in any way.
Contents
IJSEM publishes original papers, reviews and short reports on all aspects of the economics, management science, and qualitative and quantitative methods used to study economic and management issues of the service sector.
IJSEM is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- RePEc
IJSEM is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Editor in Chief
- Kryvinska, Natalia, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
(ijsem.editorgmail.com)
Associate Editor Asia
- Bang, Nguyen, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Editorial Board Members
- Abosag, Ibrahim, SOAS University of London, UK
- Akroush, Mamoun N., German-Jordanian University (GJU), Jordan
- Chan, Felix T.S., Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao
- Chen, Junsong, China Europe International Business School, China
- Chong, Alain Yee-Loong, University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, China
- De Marco, Marco, Università Guglielmo Marconi, Italy
- Fearon, Gervan, Brandon University, Canada
- Goh, Kim Leng, University of Malaya, Malaysia
- Groot, W.N.J., Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
- He, Jiaxun, East China Normal University, China
- Idrus, Nirwan, Multimedia University, Malaysia
- Japutra, Arnold, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Kumar, Vikas, University of the West of England, UK
- Lee-Wingate, Nikki, University of Bridgeport, USA
- Lin, Chih-Cheng, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Mutum, Dilip, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, Malaysia
- Otenyo, Eric E., Northern Arizona University, USA
- Ramayah, T., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
- Roy, Sanjit, University of Western Australia, Australia
- Sigala, Marianna, University of South Australia, Australia
- Singh, Satvir, Angelo State University, USA
- Sorrentino, Maddalena, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
- Wang, Qing, University of Warwick, UK
- Wen, Lei, Emporia State University, USA
- Wu, Jintao, Lingnan (University) College, China
- Wu, Kailin, Middlesex University, UK
- Yannopoulou, Natalia-Helen, Newcastle University, UK
- Yuan, Ruizhi, University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, China
- Zhou, Aileen, University of Greenwich, UK
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