The Journal of Digital Business and Management Studies (JDBMS; ISSN: 3149-9597), published by Institute for Management, Business, and Accounting Studies (IMBAS), is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to digital business and management research. Consistent with the core disciplines of its publisher, the journal emphasizes management, business, organizational studies, information systems, accounting-related digital applications, entrepreneurship, analytics, and technology management.
JDBMS examines how digital technologies, data, artificial intelligence, and information systems influence organizations, business models, managerial decision-making, strategy, operations, markets, innovation, governance, accounting practices, financial management, entrepreneurship, marketing, and value creation. The journal welcomes research across commercial, public, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, and international organizational settings when it makes a clear digital business or management contribution.
The journal welcomes Letters to the Editor, Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Systematic Review Articles, and Case Studies, provided that submissions make a clear contribution to digital business or management.
The journal’s scope includes:
Digital business, digital transformation, digital strategy, and technology-enabled organizational change
Digital business models, platform ecosystems, e-business, service innovation, and technology-enabled value creation
Management information systems, enterprise systems, digital operations, process innovation, and organizational information management
Business analytics, business intelligence, data-driven management, managerial decision-support systems, and applied data science
Artificial intelligence and automation in management, including human-AI collaboration, algorithmic decision-making, responsible adoption, governance, and organizational implementation
Technology management, innovation management, digital capabilities, organizational learning, digital leadership, and change management
Digital entrepreneurship, startup and scale-up strategy, innovation ecosystems, and platform-based ventures
Digital marketing, customer and service experience, social commerce, digital channels, personalization, and analytics-informed communication
FinTech, digital payments, accounting information systems, financial analytics, digital reporting, auditing technologies, and digitally enabled financial management
Supply-chain digitalization, logistics analytics, smart operations, traceability, process innovation, and technology-enabled productivity
Digital governance, cybersecurity governance, data privacy, algorithmic accountability, responsible AI, platform regulation, and digital resilience
Sustainable business management, ESG-related digital practices, circular business models, and technology-enabled sustainability
Quantitative, computational, simulation, and optimization methods applied to business, management, accounting, information-systems, and organizational decision problems
Digital accounting and financial technologies, including accounting information systems, FinTech, digital payments, financial analytics, digital reporting, auditing technologies, governance technologies, and AI-enabled financial and managerial decision-making
JDBMS also welcomes applied and industry-based studies evaluating the organizational performance, implementation, scalability, economic value, governance, adoption, or managerial consequences of digital technologies across firms, markets, public organizations, nonprofit organizations, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Submissions must make a clear and substantial contribution to digital business, management, organizational studies, information systems, accounting-related digital applications, analytics, technology management, entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, governance, or related managerial fields. Purely technical computer-science or engineering studies without a meaningful and explicit business, management, organizational, information-systems, governance, accounting, financial, marketing, entrepreneurial, or decision-making contribution are outside the journal’s scope.
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