The Indore Management Journal is published by the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, with the belief that management scholars and social scientists should integrate disciplines in an attempt to understand the complexities of contemporary management challenges.
We also believe that both researchers and practitioners can contribute by translating understanding into action, by linking theory and practice. This would enhance the relevance and thought in various related fields taking us a little outside traditional fields of management, such as sustainable development. We would like to draw special attention to our openness to such thinking as well as approaches.
This could entail working within one’s area or crossing disciplinary boundaries. As an international journal, we also invite manuscripts from all countries. We further welcome proposals for special issues from potential guest editors. These should include how the topic or theme fits in with the Indore Management Journal’s objectives. The descriptions of manuscripts (or the manuscripts themselves), along with author details should be submitted with the proposal. Indore Management Journal commenced publication in 2006 and is published twice every year.
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Editors :
Srinath Jagannathan (IIM Indore) | Editor | srinathj@iimidr.ac.in | E-304, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Gaurav Singh Chauhan (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | gauravs@iimidr.ac.in | C-102, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Joysankar Bhattacharya (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | joysankar@iimidr.ac.in | A-105, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Prashant Salwan (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | psalwan@iimidr.ac.in | B-108, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Rajhans Mishra (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | rajhansm@iimidr.ac.in | B-206, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Shweta Kushal (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | shweta@iimidr.ac.in | C-202, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Sujay K. Mukhoti (IIM Indore) | Associate Editor | sujaym@iimidr.ac.in | C-111, Indian Institute of Management Indore, Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road, Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
Review and Publication Policy of Indore Management Journal:
Once submitted, a manuscript goes through the following stages:
- The Editor first conducts the desk review of the manuscript to check whether there is an obvious reason to reject it, for example, if it does not fit well with the aims and scope of IMJ.
- Once the preliminary checks are done, the manuscript is passed on to the relevant Associate Editor to initiate the peer-review process which usually takes 4-6 weeks, but may take longer time in some cases. IMJ follows a typical double blind review process, meaning that the author does not get to know who reviews the manuscript and similarly, the reviewer does not know who wrote it.
- Depending upon the reviewers’ recommendations, the manuscript is accepted or rejected or, most likely, rewriting suggestions are given to the author by the Editor, who then modifies the manuscript as per the requirement and sends a revised manuscript.
- Once the Editor decides to accept a manuscript, then the author is requested to send an electronic version (MS Word format) of the final document. At this stage, authors will be requested to submit a duly signed contributor copyright assignment form.
Ethics Policy of Indore Management Journal
Indore Management Journal is committed to upholding ethical standards of research and expects contributors to adhere to established standards of integrity and academic honesty. Academic honesty involves providing appropriate credit to collaborators and members of the academic community for ideas sourced from them. Ethical standards of research involve respecting the rights of participants during data collection, analysis and reporting stages. Ethical standards of research involve standards for reporting findings and data collection protocols so that readers can transparently replicate the findings of studies. The journal is committed to upholding ethical standards of publishing to contribute to the scholarly community in robust and vibrant ways.
The journal encourages contributors to be cognizant of the following ethical check-lists:
- Contributors must ensure that ideas have been referenced appropriately. The journal reserves the right to subject manuscripts to plagiarism checks, and if any form of plagiarism or academic dishonesty comes to notice, the journal reserves the right to withdraw the manuscript from the peer-review process.
- Contributors must ensure that they have given credit to collaborators depending on the extent of contribution. Co-authorship is contingent on authors having adequately contributed to the research process and the crafting of the manuscripts. All the authors of the manuscript must be specified at the time of first submission to the journal. The corresponding author must take the consent of the Editor for any changes in authorship and provide necessary justifications for the same.
- The principles of prior informed consent must be followed for all data collection processes. Participants must be informed about the processes of research and how the authors intend to disseminate the findings of the research. The researchers must respect the needs for confidentiality and privacy of the participants.
- The journal reserves the right to call for the raw data from the contributors in case it is needed to establish the transparency of data analysis processes.
- All manuscripts must adhere to the laws prevailing in India and the countries to which the authors belong, or the countries where data collection has taken place.
In case, if any violations of the above ethical check-list or other ethical guidelines are observed at any stage, after conducting an inquiry, and allowing the authors an opportunity to voice their views, the journal reserves the right to withdraw articles published in the journal.