Institute for Management, Business, and Accounting Studies (IMBAS) is an international academic publisher dedicated to advancing high-quality scholarship in Management, Business, and Accounting. IMBAS also supports closely related interdisciplinary research in organizational studies, economics, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, information systems, business analytics, artificial intelligence for managerial applications, digital transformation, governance, and technology management.
IMBAS provides a professional publishing platform through which management scholars, business and accounting researchers, economists, finance and marketing researchers, entrepreneurship scholars, information-systems specialists, data and analytics researchers, educators, practitioners, and technology-management specialists can communicate original findings and exchange academic knowledge.
Through its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals, IMBAS supports research that advances management, business, accounting, organizational studies, economics, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, and information systems, including work examining the managerial, organizational, strategic, financial, governance, and decision-making implications of emerging digital and computational technologies.
Our Mission
The mission of Institute for Management, Business, and Accounting Studies is to support the responsible creation, evaluation, publication, and dissemination of high-quality scholarly research in management, business, accounting, information systems, and related interdisciplinary fields.
We seek to:
Provide reliable platforms for publishing original and meaningful academic work in management, business, accounting, and related disciplines.
Support responsible innovation in digital business, information systems, artificial intelligence, data science, analytics, and technology-enabled management.
Encourage collaboration among management and business researchers, accounting and finance scholars, economists, marketing and entrepreneurship researchers, information-systems specialists, data and analytics researchers, and technology-management professionals.
Promote transparent, ethical, independent, and academically rigorous scholarly publishing.
Make published research freely and permanently accessible to readers worldwide.
Strengthen the connection between academic research, organizational and managerial practice, business decision-making, public policy, governance, markets, and technological development.
Our Publishing Scope
IMBAS publishes scholarly research with Management, Business, and Accounting as its principal academic foundation. Its publishing scope extends to closely related fields including organizational studies, economics, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, information systems, business analytics, corporate governance, risk management, artificial intelligence for business and managerial applications, digital transformation, and technology management.
Management and Organizational Studies
Strategic Management; Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Human Resource Management; Operations and Process Management; Innovation Management; Change Management; Project Management; Public and Nonprofit Management; International Management; Organizational Performance; Corporate Strategy; and Managerial Decision-Making.
Research may examine how organizations are designed, governed, managed, evaluated, and transformed across private, public, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, international, and technology-intensive settings.
Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Finance
Digital Business; Business Models; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Digital Entrepreneurship; Marketing and Digital Marketing; Consumer and Service Management; Finance and FinTech; Business Analytics; Platform and Ecosystem Strategy; Sustainable Business; Technology-Enabled Services.
This area covers managerial, economic, strategic, and market-oriented research concerning firms, ventures, services, industries, and digitally enabled business environments.
Accounting, Governance, and Information for Decision-Making
Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; Accounting Information Systems; Auditing and Assurance Technologies; Digital Reporting; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Performance Measurement; Data Governance; Financial and Managerial Analytics.
Research may address how accounting, reporting, governance, controls, and information support organizational accountability, performance, transparency, risk management, and decision-making across firms and institutions.
Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Digital Transformation
Management Information Systems; Enterprise Systems; Artificial Intelligence in Management; Machine Learning for Business and Organizational Applications; Business Intelligence; Data Science and Analytics; Decision-Support Systems; Digital Platforms; Automation; Cybersecurity Governance; Digital Transformation; Responsible and Explainable AI in Organizational Settings.
IMBAS welcomes research on the organizational, managerial, economic, governance, implementation, and decision-making dimensions of digital and intelligent technologies. Purely technical work should demonstrate a clear connection to management, business, accounting, information systems, or an applied organizational context.
Economics, Finance, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship
Economics and Managerial Economics; Corporate Finance; Financial Management; FinTech; Marketing Management; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Services Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Digital Entrepreneurship; Innovation Ecosystems; Small Business and SME Management; International Business; and Sustainable Business.
Research in these areas may examine markets, firms, financial systems, consumers, entrepreneurial ventures, innovation, business performance, value creation, investment, competition, and the strategic or economic consequences of digital technologies.
Interdisciplinary Research
IMBAS particularly welcomes interdisciplinary work that connects management, business, accounting, economics, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, information systems, artificial intelligence, data science, public policy, governance, and digital technology.
The central requirement is a clear scholarly contribution to the publisher’s core disciplines or to their interdisciplinary application in organizations, markets, systems, and digitally transformed environments.
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