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Management Matters is multidisciplinary open access journal committed towards publishing original theoretical, conceptual, applied, empirical and fundamental contributions both qualitative and quantitative in all the major fields of management.

ISSN: 2279-0187
eISSN: 2752-8359

You can publish an open access article in this platinum partnership journal. Authors in this journal are not required to pay an article processing charge (APC)

Journal Owners

Aims and scope

When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.

Management Matters is the official journal of Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai published biannually. The Aim of the journal is to focus on the contemporary issues and developments in all the major fields of management. The journal follows a double-blind, peer-review process as per Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and it covers a broad range of interdisciplinary topics under the contemporary management paradigm. The journal covers the multidisciplinary functional areas of management, including and not limited to:

  • General Management
  • Strategic Management
  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Operations Management
  • Logistics & Supply Chain Management
  • Financial Management & Accounting
  • Human Resource Management
  • AI and Analytics in Management
  • Quality management
  • Organizational studies
  • Business ethics and Economics
  • International Business
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

To submit to the journal, please go to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/manm. Please follow the author guidelines before submitting. 

Management Matters operates a double-blind peer-review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for peer review, articles will then be a reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess its suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rest with the journal editor.

All articles in Management Matters are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. For further information on licencing please see the author guidelines.

Management Matters is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), who owns the title. Management Matters is published under a platinum OA arrangement, in that all charges for publishing an OA article in the journal are funded by Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA). Therefore, there is no charge to the author.

Transparency Statement for Management Matters

  1. Journal Ownership: Management Matters is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA).
  1. Governing Body: The editorial team is appointed and managed by Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA). The journal is governed by the editorial team in collaboration with Emerald Publishing.
     
  2. Peer Review Process: The journal operates a double-blind peer-review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for consideration, articles will then be a reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
  1. Editorial team/contact information: Contact details for the editorial team can be found on the journal homepage here. Queries may also be directed to Emerald’s Publishing team as follows: Judy Yeh [email protected]
  1. Copyright: All articles in the journal are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-4.0). This allows authors to retain copyright of their work whilst others can share, use and build upon this work created as long as appropriate attribution is given.
  1. Author Fees: The journal is published under a Platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA). There are currently no Article Processing Charges to the author(s).
     
  2. Allegations of Misconduct: All journals published by Emerald are members of and subscribe to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. In the event of any allegation of research or publication misconduct the publisher and editor will adhere to COPE guidelines in dealing with such allegations.
  1. Conflicts of Interest: Authors are asked to declare any financial or ethical conflicts of interest upon submitting their work to the journal. Difficult cases will be referred to the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) for advice.
     
  2. Frequency: The journal publishes two issues per annum.
     
  3. Access: All journal articles are published Open Access on EmeraldInsight.com - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/manm under a CCBY 4.0 licence (please see section 5).
     
  4. Revenue sources: The journal is published under a platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA).
     
  5. Advertising: The journal does not accept direct advertising
     
  6. Archiving: Emerald provides perpetual access for all e-journal content by working with digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.
     
  7. Direct marketing: On occasion the journal will use direct marketing activities (primarily email campaigns) to raise awareness of the journal and to invite authors to submit articles. Marketing activities are conducted by Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) unless otherwise agreed with Emerald.

 

This statement was prepared by Judy Yeh (Emerald Publishing) on 22 Oct 2021.