Aims and Scope

Journal Focus

The International Journal of Management, Economic, Business and Accounting (IJMEBA) is an international peer-reviewed and open-access scholarly journal focusing on innovation, digital transformation, sustainability, and responsible business practices in emerging economies.

IJMEBA provides an interdisciplinary platform for research connecting management, economics, business, and accounting perspectives to contemporary organizational, market, technological, financial, policy, and societal challenges.

The journal prioritizes manuscripts that provide a clear theoretical, empirical, methodological, managerial, or policy contribution rather than studies that merely replicate established relationships in a different organization or location.

Research conducted in a specific company, institution, region, or country is welcome when the study demonstrates broader scholarly relevance and clearly explains how its context contributes to existing theory, evidence, management practice, or public policy.

Core Areas of Scope

1. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Transformation

IJMEBA welcomes research addressing how organizations, entrepreneurs, industries, and markets develop and respond to innovation and strategic change.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • business innovation and innovation capability;
  • entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation;
  • MSME and SME development;
  • business-model innovation;
  • strategic management and competitive advantage;
  • organizational capabilities and dynamic capabilities;
  • organizational transformation and change management;
  • knowledge management and organizational learning;
  • human capital and workforce transformation;
  • leadership and organizational behavior;
  • innovation ecosystems;
  • technology adoption and organizational adaptation; and
  • business resilience and organizational agility.

2. Digital Business, Marketing, and Technology-Enabled Management

The journal encourages research examining the implications of digital technologies for organizations, markets, consumers, employees, and business models.

Relevant topics include:

  • digital transformation;
  • digital business and digital strategy;
  • artificial intelligence in business and management;
  • AI-enabled marketing and decision-making;
  • digital marketing capability;
  • social media and social commerce;
  • electronic commerce;
  • digital consumer behavior;
  • customer experience and customer engagement;
  • marketing innovation;
  • technology acceptance and adoption;
  • platform economy and digital ecosystems;
  • business analytics and data-driven decision-making;
  • digital human resource management;
  • financial technology and digital financial services; and
  • technology-enabled service innovation.

3. Sustainability, ESG, and Responsible Business

IJMEBA publishes research that advances understanding of sustainable, ethical, socially responsible, and environmentally responsible organizational and business practices.

Relevant topics include:

  • sustainable business models;
  • environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices;
  • corporate sustainability;
  • corporate social responsibility;
  • green innovation;
  • green marketing and sustainable consumption;
  • circular economy;
  • sustainable entrepreneurship;
  • sustainable supply-chain management;
  • responsible management;
  • business ethics;
  • sustainability reporting;
  • environmental accounting and green accounting;
  • ESG disclosure and corporate reporting;
  • responsible investment;
  • sustainable finance; and
  • business contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals.

4. Applied Economics, Finance, Accounting, and Emerging-Economy Development

The journal welcomes theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous research examining economic, financial, accounting, institutional, and development issues that affect organizations, businesses, industries, and communities, particularly in emerging and developing economies.

Topics include:

  • applied economics and business economics;
  • development economics;
  • MSME and entrepreneurial finance;
  • financial inclusion;
  • digital finance and fintech;
  • corporate finance;
  • behavioral finance;
  • sustainable finance;
  • financial resilience;
  • financial and managerial accounting;
  • corporate governance;
  • financial reporting and disclosure;
  • management control systems;
  • auditing and accountability;
  • taxation and business policy;
  • public-sector economic and financial management;
  • institutional development;
  • labor and employment economics;
  • tourism and service-sector economics;
  • regional and local economic development; and
  • public policy relevant to business and economic development.

Research Context

IJMEBA has a particular interest in research involving emerging and developing economies, including comparative research between emerging and developed economies.

Research from developed economies may also be considered when it provides theoretical, methodological, comparative, or policy insights that are relevant to the journal's core themes.

The journal encourages comparative, cross-country, cross-cultural, cross-industry, longitudinal, and interdisciplinary research that can extend the international relevance of its published scholarship.

Article Types

IJMEBA considers the following types of scholarly manuscripts:

  • Original Research Articles;
  • Quantitative Research Articles;
  • Qualitative Research Articles;
  • Mixed-Methods Research Articles;
  • Conceptual Articles;
  • Systematic Literature Reviews;
  • Structured Review Articles;
  • Bibliometric Reviews when accompanied by substantive theoretical synthesis;
  • Evidence-Based Policy Articles; and
  • Practice-Oriented Research Articles with clear scholarly contributions.

Methodological Orientation

IJMEBA is methodologically pluralistic. The journal welcomes rigorous quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, econometric, experimental, case-study, systematic-review, bibliometric, and conceptual approaches.

Methodological sophistication alone is not sufficient for publication. The manuscript must also demonstrate a clear research problem, appropriate theoretical grounding, methodological transparency, credible analysis, and a meaningful contribution to knowledge.

Out of Scope

Manuscripts may be considered outside the scope of IJMEBA when they:

  • have no substantive connection with management, economics, business, accounting, or the journal's core themes;
  • report only a routine relationship between variables without a clear research gap or contribution;
  • focus solely on a single organization's operational problem without broader theoretical, managerial, economic, or policy relevance;
  • present purely descriptive statistics without substantive analytical contribution;
  • provide only a compilation of previous studies without systematic or conceptual synthesis;
  • focus primarily on technical computer science, engineering, medicine, clinical science, natural science, or other disciplines without a clear business, management, economic, or accounting contribution; or
  • do not meet the journal's minimum requirements regarding scholarly quality, research ethics, methodology, and academic writing.

Target Readership

IJMEBA is intended for academics, researchers, postgraduate students, business practitioners, entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, financial professionals, accountants, and other stakeholders interested in contemporary developments in management, economics, business, and accounting.