Management and Labour Studies
Management and Labour Studies (MLS) is the official publication of XLRI-- Jamshedpur, published in collaboration with Sage. XLRI--Xavier School of Management-- is one of the oldest B-schools in India to bring a change in the economy and society at large. First published in 1975, Management and Labour Studies draws on the ancient Indian spirit of jñana—a philosophy that values experiential knowledge as the pathway to self-realization, deeper worldly insight, and ultimate liberation. Resonating with the central idea of empirical learning, the first issue of MLS advocated the incorporation of basic managerial skills in life and the impact of wages on industrial disputes, along with other impactful management theories.
MLS recognizes that contemporary business practices are situated at the layered intersectionalities of operations, processes, and behavior. Therefore, aimed at both scholars and practitioners, the journal continues to serve as a platform for advancing insights into business decision-making, human resources, and organizational dynamics with a strong focus on bridging theory and practice.
The journal’s editorial team comprises distinguished professors from well-known institutions around the world. The diverse team of academicians from different areas of management adds intellectual depth to the journal. A high standard of academic rigour is maintained through a double-anonymized peer-review process. Addressed to professional managers and academicians, this quarterly refereed journal offers several key insights into theory, practice, and policymaking. Moreover, it has also been at the forefront in offering effective reference tools for industry leaders.
Management and Labour Studies (MLS) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish research that is responsible, relevant, rigorous, and timely. Targeted at both professional managers and academicians, MLS provides a platform for the latest thinking and scholarly research in the fields of management, business decision-making, and human resources. The journal is committed to advancing knowledge that bridges theory and practice across a diverse range of business and human resources contexts.
Moreover, MLS seeks to foster meaningful academic dialogue on issues of business governance, policy, and practice that have a broader societal impact. The journal promotes ethically grounded and sustainable perspectives on business policy and practice, fostering dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It invites original contributions that enrich theoretical understanding, data-driven insights from diverse organizational settings, and offer practical solutions aimed at advancing responsible business research for a more sustainable future.
MLS aims to disseminate academic research inspired by developing trends and professionally informed views. Manuscripts that significantly contribute to the present understanding of how to improve business praxis are given priority. The journal welcomes original articles from both academicians and practitioners in the following business and management tracks:
- Business Analytics & Management Science
- Collective Bargaining
- Labour Rights and Legal Aspects of Business
- Consumer Psychology and Consumer Rights
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
- Technology and Management
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
- Marketing Communications and Service Research
- International and Institutional Marketing
- Operations Research and Management of Information
- Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management
- Retailing, Omnichannel Management, and Sales Research
- Strategic Management and Economics of Decision-Making
- Sustainability and Climate Change
The journal also encourages contributors to submit research articles from the associated fields of business, including social and behavioral sciences, consumer research, communication, law, public policy, and economics, that demonstrate clear managerial implications.
As part of its editorial policy, the journal aims to publish articles falling under four categories: original research article, review article, commentary, and practitioner perspective. Original research comprises articles that might be empirical or conceptual in nature. Additionally, mathematical models written in the fields of finance, marketing, strategic management, supply chain management, information systems, operations research, human resources management, and economics, among others, will be classified under original research. Review articles should synthesise and critically evaluate the existing research on management and business topics. The articles should undertake thematic or content analysis to identify patterns, contradictions and gaps in the research area. Commentary papers should provide novel insights on important business topics that are grounded in theory and supported by empirical data. The practitioner perspective section is a novel approach in its intention to bring the experience and insights of the practitioners to the research forum and establish a connection between the academic community and the business stakeholders.
| Debasis Pradhan | Professor of Marketing, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India |
| Greg Bamber | Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Baidyanath Biswas | University of Dublin, Ireland |
| Gloryson R B Chalil | XLRI Jamshedpur, India |
| Robert Chia | Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| Gerard Farias | Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University. New Jersey, USA |
| Diptesh Ghosh | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India |
| Marcus Wilcox Hemais | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| D Israel | XLRI, Jamshedpur, India |
| Rajesh Iyer | Bradley University, Illinois, USA |
| Vicki Little | RMIT University, Vietnam |
| Timothy Marjoribanks | School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
| B K Mangaraj | XLRI, Jamshedpur, India |
| Pitabas Mohanty | XLRI, Jamshedpur, India |
| Gillian Sullivan Mort | Eudemonia Institute, Brisbane, Australia |
| Ravi Pappu | University of Queensland, Australia |
| H K Pradhan | XLRI, Jamshedpur, India |
| Hayagreeva Rao | Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA |
| Akshay R Rao | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
| Santanu Sarkar | XLRI, Jamshedpur, India |
| Anil Verma | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Neharika Vohra | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India |
| Ranjit Voola | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Anjali Kispotta | Editorial Manager, Management and Labour Studies |
Submission Guidelines for
Management and Labour Studies
- Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business & Human Resources, C.H. Area (East) Jamshedpur 831035. E-mail: pitabasm@xlri.ac.in; mlseditor@xlri.ac.in
- Articles should be written in MS Word, Times New Roman font, and should be submitted in hard copy as well as in soft copy, identical in every respect. Manuscripts should not exceed 15,000 words and should be submitted in duplicate with the cover page bearing only the title of the article, author/s’ names, designations, official addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses. Author/s’ name should not appear on any other page.
- All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 4–6 keywords.
- Use British spellings in all cases rather than American spellings (hence, ‘programme’ not ‘program’, ‘labour’ not ‘labor’, and ‘centre’ and not ‘center’).
- Use ‘z’ spellings instead of ‘s’ spellings. This means that words ending with ‘-ise’, ‘isation’, etc., will be spelt with ‘z’ (e.g., ‘recognize’, ‘organize’, ‘civilize’).
- Use single quotes throughout. Double quotes only to be used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below. Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
- Use ‘twentieth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimised, but used consistently.
- Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet of paper, gathering them together at the end of the article. All Figures and Tables should be cited in the text. Sources for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions.
- A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the article. Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) must be followed.
Inverted names: In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.
Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
Chronological listing: If you have more than one work by the same author(s), list them in order by the
year of publication, starting with the earliest.
Sentence case: In references, follow sentence case for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.
Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case.
Reference styles:
Book
Hochschild, A.R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Article in an edited book
Van Maanen, J., & Kunda, G. (1989). Real feelings: Emotional expression and organizational culture. In L.L. Cummings, & B.M. Staw (Eds), Research in organizational behavior (pp. 43–103). Greenwich CT: AI Press.
Conference Proceedings
Akaike, H. (1973). Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 267–281). Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Kiado.
Article from the web
Hort, L., Barrett, M., & Fullop, L. (2001). Doing hard labor: Gendered emotional labor in academic management. Retrieved from www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/ejrot/cms conference/2001/Papers/Gender/Hort
Journal Article
Harris, L.C. (2002). The emotional labor of barristers: An exploration of emotional labor by status professionals. Journal of Management Studies, 39(4), 553–584.
- The reference to other works should be provided in the text using citations written in the author-date method.
Author-date method: Follow the author-date method of in-text citation, e.g., (Morris, 2000).
Quotes: When directly quoting from a work, include the page number in the citation.Citation styles:
One Work by One Author: (Morris, 2000)
One Work by Multiple Authors: (Morris and Feldman, 2000)
One Work by Three or More Authors: (Morris et al., 2000)
Works with No Author: Cite the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year, for example, (‘Study Finds’, 1982).
Two or More Works by Different authors in One Citation: (Morris, 1980; Rafaeli, 1988; Sachs and Blackmore, 1998)
Two or More Works by the Same Author(s) in One Citation: (Sachs and Blackmore, 1998, 1999)
Two or More Works Published in the Same Year by the Same Author(s): (Morris, 1980a, 1980b, 1980c)
Authors with the Same Last Name: To prevent confusion, use first initials with the last names: (T.V. Rao, 2001; M.K. Rao, 1998).
Work discussed in secondary source: In the text, name the original work, and give a citation for the secondary source. For example, if Seidenberg and McClelland's work is cited in Coltheart et al. and you did not read the original work, list the Coltheart et al. reference in the References. In the text, use the following citation: In Seidenberg and McClelland's study (as cited in Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, and Haller, 1993)....
- Book reviews must have details like name of author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price.
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