The ''British Journal of Management'' is a quarterly

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, which was established by David T. Otley in 1990, and is published by

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. The current editors-in-chief are Riikka Sarala of

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, USA, Shuang Ren of

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, UK. The stated mission of the journal is to publish "empirical, conceptual and methodological articles across the full range of business and management disciplines", and to disseminate research that has the potential to make a "marked and positive impact on our social and work lives". The early history of the journal has been outlined by its second former editor-in-chief Gerard P. Hodgkinson.

Abstracting and indexing

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'', the ''British Journal of Management'' has a 2021

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of 7.450. This places the journal 48th out of 226 journals in the 'Management' category, and 41st out of 155 journals in the 'Business' category.

Special issues

Throughout its history the ''British Journal of Management'' has published "special issues", which focus on particular interdisciplinary themes. For example, it published a special issue titled 'Facing the Future: The Nature and Purpose of Management Research Re-assessed', in which a range of established researchers (including Neil Anderson, Christopher Grey, Peter Herriot, Anne Huff, Andrew Pettigrew, Karl Weick) responded to a focal paper by Ken Starkey and Paula Madan, which examined "the relevance gap in management research." Recent special issues have included ''Impact of COVID‐19'' (July 2020 issue), which explored new directions in management research and communications, and ''The Grand Challenge of Energy Transitions'' (July 2021 issue), a joint initiative with the

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, which investigated the long-term energy transition from high carbon-emitting energy supply to lower emission and emission-free energy sources.

Past editors

* David T. Otley, Lancaster University, UK; founding editor; 1990–1998 * Gerard P. Hodgkinson, The University of Manchester, UK; 1999–2006 * Rolf Van Dick, Goethe University, Germany; 2006-2009 * Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel Business School, London, UK; 2010-2013 * Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Canada; 2014-2019 * Pawan Budhwar, Aston Business School, UK; 2014-2020 * Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University, USA; 2020-2023

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8551
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