African Journal of Management Research
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Focus and Scope

This Journal aims to publish original research and provide a forum for critical conceptual and analytical debate which extend the bounds of knowledge in and about business and organisational functionality in Africa. This does not preclude consideration of papers from other parts of the world.

Topics and themes appropriate for African Journal of Management Research will come from and cut across organisational/institutional sectors (public, private, non-for-profit) and address matters of theory, research and practice from a variety of management and organisational disciplines including Finance, Operations, Human Resource, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing Services, Public Administration, Health Services Management, Information systems and more.

AJMR aims to serve management and business academics.

Peer Review Process

Upon receipt of any manuscript, the Editor will make an initial determination as to compliance with editorial policy and submission requirements. Papers found to be compliant will receive an entry number and the Editor will then write to the corresponding author acknowledging receipt and quoting an entry number. The Editorial Board will then send the paper to at least 2 reviewers. Authors whose papers are not found to be initially compliant may be asked to resubmit a revised version or be informed of an outright rejection by email. Such papers will not receive an entry number.

African Journal of Management Research maintains a 2-3 months turnaround time from submission to decision. The secretariat will keep authors informed by email of the progress of their manuscripts.

Reviewers are expected to apply the strictest codes of scientific professionalism to the process and are to turn papers round within 6 weeks and are not expected to use or quote from any manuscripts they review. Authors will receive a notification of the Editor’s decision with any necessary comments from reviewers. Where the manuscript is accepted subject to amendments suggested by reviewers, authors are to turn such revisions around within reasonable time of not more than 2 months. Authors are to pay particular attention to typographical errors, print errors, grammatical aberrations, completeness of references etc. as such lapses tend to delay the publication of the paper.

Publication Frequency

This journal is published twice a year.

Journal History

The University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), then known as School of Administration, started publishing an academic journal in 1983. It was called The Journal of Management Studies.

The Journal was published regularly and by July 2003, Volume 18, number 2 had been produced. In 2007, the Editorial Board was re-organised and the UGBS Journal was re-launched under a new name, Management and Organisation: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Business. Two volumes were published in 2009 and 2010.

In 2011, the re-constituted editorial team sensed that some sections of the academic community were uncomfortable with the new name, Management and Organisation, because the name suggests a bias in favour of some management disciplines. Also, the change in name has meant a loss of the long history that the Journal had under its previous name. 

To address these concerns, the Journal was re-christened African Journal of Management Research with an explicit statement that incorporates all previous issues (under the names The Journal of Management Studies and Management & Organization).

Privacy Statement:

Names and email addresses of authors entered in this journal’s online site or on emailed manuscripts will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.