Journal Guide

The mission of Journal of Operations Management is to publish original, high quality, operations management empirical research that will have a significant impact on OM theory and practice. Regular articles accepted for publication in JOM must have clear implications for operations managers based on one or more of a variety of rigorous research methodologies. JOM also publishes insightful meta-analyses of the OM literature, conceptual/theoretical studies with clear implications for practice, comments on past articles, studies concerning the OM field itself, and other such matters relevant to OM.Manuscripts accepted for publication meet one or more of the following characteristics:1. Rigorous studies that use various forms of empirical methodologies: case studies, sample surveys, laboratory experiments, econometric analysis, and ethnographic studies 2. Papers that use multiple methods for triangulation purposes3. Papers with relevant and refreshing results and perspectives4. Empirically-grounded analytical modeling studies5. Conceptual/theoretical papers that provide a reality check for how practice has evolved or how it might evolveAudienceThe primary audience includes researchers who are interested in advancing the OM/SCM field and practitioners who have a concern for keeping abreast of the state of the art in operations management. The journal presents to this audience the concepts, theories, and managerial perspectives that address currently cutting-edge issues in operations management and supply chain management.Policies, Aims and ScopeJOM's distinctive emphasis is on the management of operations and supply chains. Accordingly, the aim of JOM is to enhance the field of OM/SCM and develop generalizable theory, typically through the identification, analysis, and theorization of real OM/SCM problems.JOM seeks research that can help the audience develop a better conceptual base for understanding OM/SCM. The focus of articles for JOM should be on the managerial situation or the theory being studied rather than the solution techniques being developed or used. Highest priority is thus given to studies that are anchored in the real world and build, extend or test generalizable theories or frameworks of managerial significance. Most often such studies result from identifying an actual, new managerial situation for which existing theory is inadequate, thereby resulting in an addition to theory or testing multiple theories against actual managerial situations to determine their relevance.General topics covered by the journal, while not exclusive, include the following:• Operations processes in manufacturing and service organizations; • Upstream supply management;• Downstream demand management;• Operations strategy and policy;• Product and service design and development; • Manufacturing and service systems design; • Technology management for operations; • Multi-site operations management; • Capacity planning and analysis; • Operations planning, scheduling and control; • Project management; • Human resource management for operations; • Work design, measurement and improvement; • Performance measurement and productivity; • Quality management; • Purchasing/sourcing management; • Materials and inventory management; • Logistics, transportation, distribution, and materials handling; • International and comparative operations; • Operations and information management; • Sustainable supply chain operations;• Humanitarian/disaster relief operations;• Regulatory and environmental issues in operations.Published by Elsevier in collaboration with APICS, Educational & Research Foundation

The Journal of Organizational Behavior Management--the official journal of the OBM Network--is a periodical devoted specifically to scientific principles to improve organizational performance through behavioral change. The journal publishes research and review articles, reports from the field, discussions, and book reviews on the topics that are critical to today's organization development practitioners, operations managers, and human resource professionals. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management focuses on specific topics such as: * Applied Behavior Analysis Concepts and Principles * Performance Management * Behavioral Systems Analysis * Performance Measurement and Evidence-Based Management * Goal Setting, Feedback, and Incentive Programs * Performance Based Instruction * Contingency Assessment * Human Resource issues (absenteeism, tardiness, and turnover) * Operational issues (shrink, productivity, and quality) The Journal of Organizational Behavior Management occasionally produces thematic issues that concentrate on a single, highly relevant topic. Thematic issues focus on Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Safety, Behavioral System Analysis, and Statistical Process Control. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous blind peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by 3-4 anonymous referees. Invited articles and book reviews undergo editorial review. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Successful organizations respond intelligently to factors which precipitate change. Economic climates, political trends, changes in consumer demands, management policy or structure, employment levels and financial resources - all these elements are constantly at play to ensure that organizations clinging on to static structures will ultimately lose out. But change is a dynamic and alarming thing - this journal addresses how to manage it positively, so that employees give their support and the positive goals set are worked towards with enthusiasm.

The Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) provides a forum to information technology educators, researchers, and practitioners to advance the practice and understanding of organizational and end user computing. The journal features a major emphasis on how to increase organizational and end user productivity and performance, and how to achieve organizational strategic and competitive advantage. JOEUC publishes full-length research manuscripts, insightful research and practice notes, and case studies from all areas of organizational and end user computing that are selected after a rigorous blind review by experts in the field.

The official journal of the Institute of Place Management, JPMD brings together high-quality research from multiple disciplines on the subject of place making.

In every facet of product innovation, Journal of Product Innovation Management advances management practice by offering both theoretical structures and practical techniques. The Journal is at the cutting edge of academic theory and effective management practice for both the internal and external environment of the organization and offers managers, academics and students innovative, informative and thought-provoking reading.

JPBAFM is an outlet for rigorous conceptual and empirical works aimed at challenging and innovating the field of accounting, management and governance in organizations operating in the public sphere or public-private sphere.

The mission of the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management is to publish original, high-quality research within the field of purchasing and supply management (PSM).Articles should have a significant impact on PSM theory and practice. The Journal ensures that high quality research is collected and disseminated widely to both academics and practitioners, and provides a forum for debate. It covers all subjectsrelating to the purchase and supply of goods and services in industry, commerce, local, national, and regional government, health and transportation.The journal is effectively positioned as a multi-disciplinary journal, focusing on a particular set of study objects rather than a specific discipline. The journal is clearly focused on the context in purchasing and supply management, and is quite liberal with respect to the method and style of research and the level of problem addressed.Key topics include:Purchasing and supply in a strategic contextOrganisational buying behaviourMake-or-buy/outsourcing strategyGlobal/international sourcingSupplier relationshipsTendering and contractingCosting and pricingNegotiationPurchasing and supply organisationInformation management and information & communication technology (ICT)Social, ethical and environmental supply issuesSupply chain managementPublic procurementBenefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

JQME aims to bring together developments in maintenance and quality that are of interest to both practitioners and researchers. It reinforces the position of maintenance engineering as a highly technical, scientific, and complex field.

The Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship (JRME) publishes research that contributes to our developing knowledge of entrepreneurial and small business marketing.

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Responsible Innovation ( JRI) provides a forum for discussions of the normative assessment and governance of knowledge-based innovation. JRI offers humanists, social scientists, policy analysts and legal scholars, and natural scientists and engineers an opportunity to articulate, strengthen, and critique the relations among approaches to responsible innovation, thus giving further shape to a newly emerging community of research and practice.  These approaches include ethics, technology assessment, governance, sustainability, socio-technical integration, and others. JRI intends responsible innovation to be inclusive of such terms as responsible development and sustainable development, and the journal invites comparisons and contrasts among such concepts. While issues of risk and environmental health and safety are relevant, JRI especially encourages attention to the assessment of the broader and more subtle human and social dimensions of innovation—including moral, cultural, political, and religious dimensions, social risk, and sustainability addressed in a systemic fashion.

JRI invites three kinds of written contributions: research articles of 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and references, that communicate original theoretical or empirical investigations; perspectives of approximately 2,000 words in length that communicate opinions, summaries, or reviews of timely issues, publications, cultural or social events, or other activities; and pedagogy, communicating in appropriate length experience in or studies of teaching, training, and learning related to responsible innovation in formal (e.g., classroom) and informal (e.g., museum) environments.

The Journal of Risk Research is an international journal that publishes peer-reviewed theoretical and empirical research articles within the risk field from the areas of social, physical and health sciences and engineering, as well as articles related to decision making, regulation and policy issues in all disciplines. Articles will be published in English. The main aims of the Journal of Risk Research are to stimulate intellectual debate, to promote better risk management practices and to contribute to the development of risk management methodologies. Journal of Risk Research is the official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan. Peer Review Policy All research articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and double-blind peer review. Disclaimer Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 'Content') contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether expressed or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.

JOSM focuses on service management research publishing papers showing a unique and significant contribution to service literature while providing a resource for those working across the full spectrum of service management field irrespective of discipline.

JSTP aims to publish research in the field of service management that makes a theoretical contribution to the service research literature, as well as positively impacting on industry practices by offering specific recommendations and action plans.

• Starting, buying and selling an SME
• Financing, funding, banking, venture capital, audit and accounting in SMEs
• Entrepreneur characteristics, leadership and work-life balance
• Identification of business opportunities, business incubators and mentorship
• Support services to entrepreneurship and SMEs

• Sales and marketing in SMEs
• Human resource management in SMEs
• Operation management in SMEs
• Innovation, knowledge management, learning and fast growth in SMEs
• New technologies, Internet, and communication in SMEs
• Regulation and taxes for SMEs
• Growth of SMEs

• Strategic Management in SMEs
• International entrepreneurship and SME internationalization
• Networks, alliances and relationships with government and large enterprises
• Managing change in an uncertain and changing environment
• Factors of success and failure in SME and entrepreneurial firms

• Social entrepreneurship
• Gender and female entrepreneurship
• Indigenous entrepreneurship
• Ethnic/diaspora/immigrant entrepreneurship
• Youth and student entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship in emerging/transition markets
• Franchises, sport, health, consulting and other emerging types of SMEs
• Corporate entrepreneurship

• Family-based business
• Social responsibility, environmental protection, governance, and ethics in SMEs
• SMEs and regional, urban, rural, and national development
• Entrepreneurship education
• Epistemology, general theory development, and methods of research in entrepreneurship and SMEs
• Entrepreneurship and sustainable development

Peer Review Statement

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high quality, original research. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Editorial Manager.

The primary purpose of the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM) is to publish scholarly research articles in the fields of small business management and entrepreneurship. As the official journal of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the JSBM is recognized as a primary instrument for projecting and supporting the goals and objectives of this organization, which include scholarly research and the free exchange of ideas. The Journal, which is circulated in 60 countries around the world, is a leader in the field of small business research. The following is a list of research topics of interest to JSBM readers: