Cogent Business & Management is a multidisciplinary Open Access Journal that strives for inclusivity and global reach. The broad scope of the Journal creates a perfect environment to foster connections between researchers across all areas of Business & Management research, from Operations Research to Corporate Governance and Accounting to Marketing.
Through Open Access publishing, we bring sound and scholarly research to people across the globe. Our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Len Tiu Wright, leads an expert and diverse international Editorial Board who undertake objective and constructive peer review. Each submission is evaluated on its own scholarly merit and research integrity.
Cogent Business & Management considers original research, review articles, letters and replication studies in the following sections and broad topical areas:
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation section of Cogent Business & Management aims to advance knowledge and share valuable insights into the many facets of entrepreneurship, including start-up strategy, innovation management, entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurship education, small and family business, corporate and social entrepreneurship, and technology and innovation. This section accepts the following types of submissions: original research articles, review articles, thought-provoking letters that adhere to rigorous scientific and ethical norms, and interviews from thought leaders and policy makers so long as they are framed in the literature and present a novel and clear contribution to the field. Scholarship from a diverse audience, including academics, early-stage and veteran entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and others are welcome, as are interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary contributions.
Management
Encourages submissions that cover any area of management, including human resource management and careers, strategic management, international business, management education and development, gender and diversity in organizations, critical management studies, organizational behaviour, organizational change and organization and management theory. The section also welcomes papers that demonstrate relevance to business practice, policy, or potential for societal impact and it is open to various research methods, models and platforms.
Marketing
The marketing section is part of the Cogent Business and Management Journal that fosters interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinary, global research collaboration and promotes inclusivity. It publishes original research articles, review articles and letters of high quality and impact that comply with scientific and ethical standards. It also targets a wide range of readers e.g. academics, senior and early career researchers, managers, consumers, policy makers and others.
The marketing section aims to advance and disseminate knowledge about timely and relevant issues related to marketing planning and strategy, marketing activities implementation in Business to Consumer (B2C), Business to Business (B2B), Business to Government, Customer to Customer (C2C), and other contexts.
Also, it encourages authors to expand and deepen the knowledge about the challenges prompted by the three-bottom line: economical, environmental and social- emergencies, the technological transformations, the international tensions etc. and their influence on sustainable marketing, digital marketing, international marketing and other marketing domains. Conceptual and empirical papers addressing a variety of perspectives, methods, theoretical approaches, and practical issues are also welcomed.
Operations Research, Information & Technology
Publishes papers that demonstrate contribution to both theory and practice in innovative product and service creation and delivery, as well as advanced information and technologies contributing to digital businesses and the knowledge economy. The following areas of research will be considered: product and service design, manufacturing and delivery, resource efficiency, process improvement, quality & inventory management, supply chain risks and resilience, knowledge and information management, enterprise systems, decision support systems, and data analytics.
Accounting, Corporate Governance & Business Ethics
Publishes research that explores financial reporting, disclosure, corporate governance, business ethics, earnings management, auditing, executive compensation, performance measurement and management, budgeting, management control systems, investment appraisal and capital budgeting, taxation and transfer pricing, and also contemporary social and environmental accounting issues.
Banking & Finance
Covers all aspects of the key research areas of bank behaviour and performance, merger and acquisition activity, risk management and financial crisis. Within the sphere of finance research, an understanding of how corporations act in financing their activities, in managing their risk, and their interactions with stakeholders is crucial.
What can you expect if you publish in Cogent Business & Management ?
- Retention of the full copyright in your work
- Immediate, free access to your article for anyone anywhere in the world
- Rigorous peer review featuring constructive dialogue with experts
- Fast publication on a state-of-the-art platform
- Innovative article-level performance metrics
- Global marketing and high production values
- Extensive indexing and archiving of your work
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Editor-in-Chief
Len Tiu Wright - De Montfort University, UK
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Cogent Business & Management publishes across six areas of business and management. Each section is led by a Senior Editor and is supported by an Editorial Board, as listed below.
Accounting, Corporate Governance & Business Ethics
Senior Editor
Collins Ntim - University of Southampton, UK
Associate Editors
Dila Agrizzi - University of Essex, UK
Sandra Alves - Aveiro University, Portugal
Kingsley Opoku Appiah - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Marco Bisogno - University of Salerno, Italy
Agyenim Boateng - Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Tamer Elshandidy - Ajman University, United Arab Emirates
Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Asia-Australia Business College, Liaoning University, China
Robin H. Luo - ALHOSN University, United Arab Emirates
Yinka Moses - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Thomas G. Pittz - The University of Tampa, USA
Teerooven Soobaroyen - University of Essex, UK
Karim Sorour - Northumbria University, UK
Nor Shaipah Abdul Wahab - Taylor's University, Malaysia
Banking & Finance
Senior Editor
David McMillan - University of Stirling, UK
Associate Editors
Hussein Abdou - University of Central Lancashire, UK
Mahmudul Alam - Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Chia-Lin Chang - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary - Tokai University, Japan
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Senior Editor
Eric Liguori - Florida State University, USA
Associate Editors
Younggeun Lee - California State University LA, USA
Oyedele Ogundana - Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jeffrey Muldoon - Emporia State University, USA
Deputy Associate Editors
Samantha Steidle - Radford University, USA
Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng - Ghana Baptist University, Ghana
Marketing
Senior Editors
Elika Kordrostami - Rowan University, USA
Kaouther Kooli - Bournemouth University, UK
Associate Editors
Ogechi Adeola - Lagos Business School, Nigeria
Morteza Akbari - University of Tehran, I.R.Iran
Ediz Akcay - Bournemouth University, UK
Umair Akram - Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China
John Amoah - KAAF University College, Ghana
Usama Awan - LUT University, Finland
Ilke Cicekli - Bournemouth University, UK
Maria Teresa Cuomo - Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Changju Kim - Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan
Nourchen Damene - Institute of Advanced Business Studies (IHEC Carthage), Tunisia
Dr. Ala’ Omar Dandis - Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan
Skander Esseghaier - University of Manouba, Tunisia
Giuseppe Festa - Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Carlos Gómez-Corona - Firmenich, Mexico
Manish Gupta - IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, India
Kithsiri H V A - IIC University of Technology, Sri Lankan Campus, Sri Lanka
Javad Izady - University of West London, UK
Heerah Jose - GITAM, India
Elena Kostadinova - University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
Cherifa Lakhoua - Institute of Advanced Business Studies (IHEC Carthage), Tunisia
Osikhuemhe Okwilagwe - Bournemouth Univeristy, UK
Maria Palazzo - Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Iman Rahimi - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Malek Sghaier - L'Université Paris-Dauphine, Tunisia
Azza Temessek - Institute of Advanced Business Studies (IHEC Carthage), Tunisia
Teresa Villacé - King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Scott Weaven - Griffith University, Australia
Shi Yin - College of Economics and Management, Hebei Agricultural University, China
Management
Senior Editors
Pablo Ruiz Palomino - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Helen Cai - Middlesex University London, UK
Associate Editors
Ansar Abbas - Muslim Youth University, Pakistan
Joseph Amankwah-Amoah - University of Kent, UK
Sebastian Aparicio - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
José Antonio Belso-Martinez - Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Mouhcine Tallaki - University of Ferrara, Italy
Abdul Bashiru Jibril - Rabat Business School, Morocco
Rocio Gallego-Loasada - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Diego Corrales-Garay - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Maria Angeles Garcia-Haro - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Isidro Pena Garcia-Pardo - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Santiago Gutierrez - University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Pedro Jimenez Estevez - University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jorge Linuesa - University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Gordon Liu - The Open University, UK
Ricardo Martínez Cañas - University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Mohamed Mousa - WSB University, Poland
Antonio Montero Navarro - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Gustavo Morales-Alonso - Universidad Politecnia Madrid, Spain
Etayankara Muralidharan - MacEwan University, Canada
Arash Najmaei - Australian Catholic University, Australia
Mithun Nandy - Vidyasagar University, India
Fabio Nonino - University of Rome, Italy
Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek - Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
Robin Robin - University of Edgehill, UK
Job Rodrigo-Alarcon - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jose-Luis Rodriguez Sanchez - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Juan Jose Najera Sanchez - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Trevor Wilmshurst - University of Tasmania, Australia
Hung-Che Wu - Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, China
Operations Research, Information & Technology
Senior Editors
Jason Wang - Huddersfield University, UK
Balan Sundarakani - The University of Wollongong, Dubai
Associate Editors
Mazhar Abbas - University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
Neelamegam Anbazhagan - Alagappa University, India
Lorenzo Ardito - Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Alireza Fallahpour - University of Malaya, Malaysia
Ernest Gyapong - Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Aijun Liu - Xidian University, China
Peide Liu - Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China
Pedro Lorca - University of Oviedo, Spain
Jie Ma - Northumbria University Newcastle, UK
Femi Olan - Northumbria University, UK
Natarajan R - Accenture Solutions, India
Matilde Rodrigues - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka - Czestochowa University of Technology Politechnika Czestochowska, Poland
Loh Hui Shan - Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
Stella Sofianopoulou - University of Piraeus, Greece
Huay Ling Tay - Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
Mike Tse - Cardiff University, UK
Liukai (Kevin) Wang - University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Jim Yen-Chun Wu - National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Wen Zhang - University of Bristol, UK
Justyna Zywiolek - Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Social Media Editor
Mayani Aung - Huddersfield University, UK
Guest Editor
Dr. Nitika Sharma, CHRIST University, Delhi, India
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