Australian Journal of Management
The Australian Journal of Management (AJM) publishes high-quality management research from all major business disciplines that advances theory, informs policy, and addresses complex organisational and societal challenges.
Established in Australia in 1976, AJM upholds a tradition of integrity, pragmatism, and creative problem-solving. We recognise that today’s management problems are global in scope and we welcome contributions from all parts of the world.
AJM invites conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research that meets the standards of the world’s leading journals, with a special emphasis on problem-focused research. Our coverage reflects the breadth of management as articulated through business related disciplines taught, researched, and professionally practiced worldwide including (but not limited to) accounting, economics, finance, information systems, innovation and entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, management, operations and supply chain.
In addition to regular papers, AJM Editorial Initiatives intended to amplify our mission include:
- Special Issues
- Policy-Relevant Research, linking management scholarship to policy outcomes with actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
- Point–Counterpoint, offering informed scholarly debate on enduring managerial issues through contrasting perspectives
- Engaged Problematisation, promoting industry-led problematisation that surface new or understudied real-world managerial challenges and set research agendas for grand societal problems.
What we look for:
- Strong theoretical contribution
- Policy-relevant insights with clear recommendations
- Clear and substantive managerial relevance
- Clear and substantive societal relevance
- Credible research design and traceable empirical work (qualitative and/or quantitative)
- Transparency and methodological rigour and integrity
- Originality
- Clear writing that communicates with broad audiences
To ensure fit with our scope, AJM does not publish:
- Purely descriptive studies
- Descriptive literature reviews (excluding systematic and integrative reviews)
- Context-bound case studies without transferable insight
- Opinion essays lacking robust scholarly grounding
- Political viewpoints/essays and/or politically focused research
- Replications without theoretical extension
- Incremental findings
- Research with no significant contribution to theory and/or practice
- Empirical work lacking methodological transparency
- Research with limited or heavily constrained datasets (unless qualitative)
Submit your best work to AJM and contribute to shaping the future of management research, policy and practice.
For Sage policies on the use of AI for authors, editors and reviewers please see: ChatGPT and Generative AI | SAGE Publications Ltd
If you have any queries you wish to direct to the Editor-in-Chief, please contact Yichelle Zhang (ajm@unsw.edu.au) in the first instance.
All issues of Australian Journal of Management are available online.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajm.
The Australian Journal of Management (AJM) is a global, multidisciplinary outlet for high-quality management scholarship across all major business disciplines including but not limited to accounting, economics, finance, information systems, innovation and entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, management, and operations and supply chain. Founded in Australia, AJM upholds values of integrity, pragmatism, and creative problem-solving, and welcomes submissions from every part of the world. We publish conceptual and empirical research that meets the standards of the world’s leading journals, advancing theory, informing policy, and addressing major managerial and societal challenges.
For Sage policies on the use of AI for authors, editors and reviewers please see: ChatGPT and Generative AI | SAGE Publications Ltd
| Tania Bucic | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Muhammad Ali | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Gautam Bose | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Jeff Coulton | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Chelsea Liu | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Daniel Samson | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Sukhbir Sandhu | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Miles Yang | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Stijn Masschelein | University of Western Australia, Australia |
| Yaowen Shan | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Helen Spiropoulos | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Mark Wilson | Australian National University |
| Fara Azmat | Deakin University, Australia |
| Mehran Nejati | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| Rui Xue | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Philip Gharghori | Monash University, Australia |
| Phong Ngo | Australian National University, Australia |
| Edward Podolski | RMIT, Australia |
| Tom Smith | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Elizabeth Yushu Zhu | University of Queensland , Australia |
| Haisu Zhang | New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA |
| Youqing Fan | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Mingqiong Mike Zhang | Monash University, Australia |
| Jimi Kim | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Alison Joubert | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Jiwan Moon | |
| Ljubomir Pupovac | UNSW, Australia |
| Dean Wilkie | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Jack Cadeaux | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| William Ho | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Matthew Pepper | University of Wollongong, Australia |
| Zahra Seyedghorban | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Nik Thompson | Curtin University, Australia |
| Daniela Andrei | Curtin University, Australia |
| David Cheng | Australian National University, Australia |
| Catherine Collins | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Helena Nguyen | University of Sydney Business School, Australia |
| Sanjee Perera | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Ashlea Troth | Griffith University, Australia |
| Melissa Wheeler | RMIT, Australia |
| Lingli Luo | Zhejiang University, China |
| Fei Fei Yang | East China Normal University, China |
| Denni Arli | University of Tasmania, Australia |
| Rebecca Bachmann | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Marzena Baker | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Sarah Bankins | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Timothy Bednall | Swinburne University, Australia |
| Yuqiang Cao | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China |
| Jamie Carlson | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Nasima Mohamed Hoosen Carrim | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Charlene Chen | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Wei Chen | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Wai Fong Chua | The University of Sydney Business School, Australia |
| Conor Clune | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Andrew Dhaenens | RMIT, Australia |
| Michelle Evans | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Ben Fahiminia | Sydney University, Australia |
| Limin Fu | Monash University, Australia |
| Patrick Garcia | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Elliroma Gardiner | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Elizabeth George | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Mirit Grabarski | Lakehead University, Canada |
| Mariano (Pitosh) Heyden | Monash University, Australia |
| Mohammad Hossain | RMIT University |
| Ali Muhammad | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Denise Jepsen | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Mark Jones | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Helen Kang | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Maria Kaya | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Eunice Khoo | Australian National University, Australia |
| Hannah Kunst | Sydney University, Australia |
| Arian Kunzelmann | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| Huong Le | Central Queensland University Melbourne, Australia |
| Linan Lei | Zhejiang University, China |
| Candy (Ying) Lu | Macquarie University |
| Meiting Lu | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Nanfeng (Ben) Luo | Renmin University of China, China |
| Chao Ma | Australian National University, Australia |
| Pengcheng Ma | Renming University of China, China |
| Mazlan Maskor | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Richard Morris | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Paula Mowbray | Griffith University, Australia |
| Antony Mullins | Curtin University, Australia |
| Alka Nand | Monash University, Australia |
| Andreas Ortmann | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Terry Pan | Macquarie University, Australia |
| David Pitt | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| Dewan Rahman | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Soniya Rijal | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Christiaan Roell | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Gavin Schwarz | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Tom Scott | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Peter Shi | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Stephen L Taylor | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
| Xiaocong Tian | Shandong University, China |
| Jarrod Vassalo | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Jianrong Wang | East China Normal University, China |
| Karyn Wang | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Liwen Wang | Shenzhen University, China |
| Sue Wright | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Matthew Xerri | Griffith University, Australia |
| Hongmin (Jess) Yan | Griffith University, Australia |
| Forough Zarea | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Nate Zettna | Sydney University, Australia |
| Lijuan (Lily) Zhang | Australian National University, Australia |
| Zhijing Zhu | Nottingham University Ningbo, China |
| Frederik Anseel | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Ray Ball | University of Chicago, USA |
| Philip Brown | The University of Western Australia, Australia |
| George Foster | Stanford University, USA |
| Wayne R Guay | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| John H. Roberts | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Karin Sanders | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Baljit K. Sidhu | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Richard G Sloan | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Mark Uncles | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Ross L Watts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Robert E. Wood | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Philip Yetton | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Stephen Zeff | Rice University, USA |
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