Journals

Last updated, 27 Sep 2012

 

ephemera is an independent peer-reviewed journal, which encourages the discussion of theoretical and political perspectives on all aspects of organisation(s) and organising. All content can be downloaded from the website. 

Organization 
This is a time of unprecedented debate and diversity in organization studies, when intellectual reassessments go alongside a plurality of organizational forms and practices in a globalizing world. The central task for students of organization is to construct those analytical narratives and ethical discourses appropriate to the radically changing structural, theoretical and ideological realities we now face. Organization seeks to address this important task. 

Scandinavian Journal of Management

The official journal of the Nordic Academy of Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) promotes dialogue and new thinking around the theory and practice of management, with an emphasis on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. SJM has a passion for empirical inquiry driven by curiosity over the exotic nature of mundane organisational life and delivered through case studies using qualitative research methods. The journal is particularly sympathetic to research that problematises and questions mainstream management discourses and practices.

Sociology 
The objective of Sociology is to publish outstanding and original peer-reviwed articles which advance the theoretical understanding of, and promote and report empirical research about the widest range of sociological topics. The journal encourages, and welcomes, submission of papers which report findings using both quantitative and qualitative research methods.


Studies in Language and Capitalism
Studies in Language and Capitalism is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to promote and freely distribute interdisciplinary critical inquiries into the language and meaning of contemporary capitalism and the links between economic, social and linguistic change.
Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory (EJROT)
EJROT is a scholarly journal, edited by Professor Clive Gilson from the Waikato Management School (WMS) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. The Journal is available on the web site of the Waikato Management School, and is now published by Informit e-Library, RMIT Publishing.
 
Alternative Perspectives on Finance and Accounting
Alternative Perspectives on Finance and Accounting interprets the terms "Finance" and "Accounting" very broadly beyond their more traditional economic roles. The journal seeks to address all issues associated with the global political, social, and cultural roles of finance and closely related areas of accounting.
 

M@n@gement
M@n@gement is a double-blind reviewed journal where articles are published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted. The current acceptance rate is 9%. A free subscription is available via eMail, which keeps you informed when a new issue is on line.

Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Critical Perspectives on Accounting aims to provide a forum for the growing number of accounting researchers and practitioners who realize that conventional theory and practice is ill-suited to the challenges of the modern environment, and that accounting practices and corporate behavior are inextricably connected with many allocative, distributive, social, and ecological problems of our era.
Journal of Workplace Rights
The Journal of Workplace Rights is dedicated to the proposition that human rights should not be compromised by employers. It uses an expansive definition of human rights, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as passed by the United Nations in 1948.
 
Management Learning
Management Learning aims to publish work that advances our understanding of knowledge, knowing and learning in management and organizations. The journal encourages work that takes a processual, provisional and contested view of knowledge, engages in critique, and is thought-provoking. This includes reflecting on and questioning issues such as: the nature and purpose of knowledge, education, pedagogy and practice; the legitimacy and implications of particular research and teaching methods; challenging one's own assumptions, methods, and/or practices; and being aware of what is said and not said in the organizing, managing, theorizing, teaching, and/or writing process.
 
Management & Organizational History (M & OH)
A quarterly, peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish high quality, original, academic research concerning historical approaches to the study of management, organizations and organizing. The journal is both empirical and theoretical and seeks to advance innovative historical methods. It facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, especially between business and management history and organization theory. The ethos of M & OH is reflective, ethical, imaginative, critical, inter-disciplinary, and international, as well as historical in orientation.
 
Culture & Organization
was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies. It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies. Theoretically, Culture and Organization bridges the arts and humanities and the social sciences, and welcomes papers which draw on the disciplinary practices and discourses of philosophy, the performing arts, literary and art criticism and historical analysis.
 
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Journal of Organizational Change Management offers detailed analysis and discussion on the philosophies and practices which underpin successful organizational change. It seeks to help build more promising futures for the societies and organizations of tomorrow by publishing papers which have been accepted after double-blind review.
 
 
 
Equal Opportunities International
Equal opportunities and its allied concepts, including inequality, inequity, disadvantage, diversity, and inclusion, have been studied extensively across all disciplines of social sciences and humanities. The promulgation of interest in the field of inequality owes much to the awareness that was brought about by the earlier human and civil rights and feminist movements which have engendered legal and social reforms that provide protections against unfair forms of discrimination.
 
Gender, Work & Organization
A peer reviewed journal that brings together wide-ranging research on gender from a variety of academic disciplines into a new international forum for debate and analysis. The journal is dedicated to advancing theory, research and analytically driven applications concerning gender relations at work, the organization of gender and the gendering of organizations, including other aspects of inequality of relevance to gender. The journal presents critical and scholarly research, in a clear and uncomplicated style from a diverse range of fields of inquiry and provides a platform for academic articles that give focus and credibility to gender issues.
 
Organization & Environment
Organization & Environment is recognized as a leading international journal for ecosocial research and is unique in its emphasis on organizations, institutions, and nature. Ecosocial research refers to any interdisciplinary study of social organizing as it relates to the natural world. Accordingly, Organization & Environment publishes work that focuses on connections between the natural environment (including animals, plants, air, water, land, and other ecological entities and systems) and formal and informal patterns of organizing (including human production and consumption, human service, and environmental protection and advocacy).
 

Critical Perspectives on International Business
critical perspectives on international business publishes material that engages critically with the broad field of international business including but not restricted to, issues of globalization, production and consumption, economic change, societal change, politics and power of organizations and governments, environment, etc.
 

Journal of Cultural Economy
is part of the Culture, Economy and the Social publishing programme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC). Its concern is with the role played by various forms of material cultural practice in the organisation of the economy and the social, and of the relations between them. As such it will provide a unique interdisciplinary forum for work on these questions from across the social sciences and humanities. These include the contributions of actor network theory and science studies to debates about the ‘performativity' of the economy and the social and the parallel discussions about the distributive nature of economic and social agency across networks of things and persons that is evident in social anthropology, and material culture studies.
 

Organization Studies
publishes peer-reviewed, top quality theoretical and empirical research with the aim of promoting the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized in and between societies. OS is a multidisciplinary journal with global reach, rooted in the social sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in outlook and open to paradigmatic plurality. It is recognized as one of the world's highest impact management journals through inclusion in the Financial Times' list of leading journals. OS is published in collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies.
 

Human Relations
is an international peer reviewed journal, which publishes the highest quality original research to advance our understanding of social relationships at and around work through theoretical development and empirical investigation. Human Relations seeks high quality research papers that extend our knowledge of social relationships at work and organizational forms, practices and processes that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and work organizations. The journal welcomes manuscripts that seek to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to develop new perspectives and insights into social relationships and relationships between people and organizations.