ISSN: 2243-7770 Online ISSN: 2243-7789
Volumes and Issues
2021 Volume 9: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4
2022 Volume 10: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5
2023 Volume 11: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5, # 6, # 7, # 8, # 9, # 10,
# 11, # 12, # 13, # 14
2024 Volume 12: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5, # 6, # 7, # 8, # 9, # 10,
# 11, # 12, # 13, # 14, # 15, # 16
2025 Volume 13: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5, # 6, # 7, # 8
2026 Volume 14: # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5, # 6
Focus and Scope
International Journal of Research Studies in Management (IJRSM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing knowledge in management, business administration, organizational studies, and related disciplines. The journal provides a platform for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to disseminate theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous, and practically relevant research addressing contemporary management challenges and emerging developments in business and organizational environments. IJRSM adopts an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented approach, welcoming contributions from diverse theoretical traditions, methodological perspectives, and socioeconomic contexts. The journal publishes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, including empirical investigations, surveys, case studies, comparative studies, longitudinal research, action research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conceptual and methodological contributions.
Aims and Objectives
IJRSM aims to advance management knowledge by promoting scholarly research, organizational innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The journal encourages research that contributes to management theory, improves organizational practices, informs managerial decision-making, and addresses emerging challenges affecting businesses, institutions, and communities. Particular emphasis is placed on studies exploring leadership, organizational effectiveness, strategic decision-making, entrepreneurship, human resource development, digital transformation, sustainability, and the changing nature of work. The journal welcomes contributions from both emerging and established researchers and seeks to strengthen dialogue between academic scholarship and professional management practice.
Areas of Interest
The journal welcomes contributions across a broad range of management and business disciplines, including but not limited to:
- Strategic Management and Organizational Theory: Strategic planning, organizational development, competitive advantage, institutional change, organizational structures, and strategic decision-making.
- Leadership and Organizational Behavior: Leadership practices, employee motivation, organizational culture, workplace relationships, organizational commitment, and change management.
- Human Resource Management and Development: Talent management, employee engagement, training and development, performance management, workforce diversity, employee well-being, and the future of work.
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management: Entrepreneurial innovation, business creation, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), family businesses, succession planning, and enterprise sustainability.
- International Business and Cross-Cultural Management: International business strategies, multinational organizations, global management practices, cross-cultural leadership, and comparative management.
- Marketing and Consumer Management: Marketing strategy, consumer behavior, digital marketing, branding, customer relationships, service quality, and market development.
- Financial and Risk Management: Corporate financial management, investment decisions, financial planning, enterprise risk management, financial sustainability, and organizational resilience.
- Operations and Supply Chain Management: Operations strategy, logistics, supply chain resilience, quality management, business process improvement, and sustainable operations.
- Tourism, Hospitality, and Service Management: Hospitality operations, tourism management, service innovation, destination management, customer experience, and community-based tourism enterprises.
- Public and Nonprofit Management: Public administration, institutional governance, nonprofit leadership, social enterprise management, public service innovation, and organizational accountability.
- Digital Transformation and Technology Management: Digital business strategies, artificial intelligence in management, business analytics, technology adoption, digital entrepreneurship, and organizational transformation.
- Sustainability, Corporate Governance, and Business Ethics: Corporate social responsibility, environmental management, ethical leadership, sustainable business models, stakeholder engagement, and responsible management practices.
IJRSM also welcomes interdisciplinary studies integrating management perspectives with economics, sociology, psychology, education, public administration, information technology, and related disciplines, provided that the research makes a substantive contribution to management knowledge, organizational practices, or managerial decision-making.
Philippine Management, Business, and Organizational Studies
Recognizing the importance of local knowledge and culturally grounded management practices, IJRSM particularly welcomes research examining management, business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and organizational issues within the Philippine context. The journal encourages studies that explore the distinctive socioeconomic, institutional, and cultural conditions shaping Philippine organizations, enterprises, and management practices. Such research may draw upon local experiences and perspectives while contributing to broader theoretical discussions and international comparative scholarship.
Areas of particular interest include:
- Philippine MSMEs and Family Businesses: Entrepreneurship, business development, family enterprise management, succession planning, financial inclusion, and enterprise sustainability.
- Filipino Leadership and Organizational Culture: Culturally grounded leadership practices, Filipino workplace values, interpersonal relationships, organizational commitment, and local approaches to management.
- Local Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Community enterprises, social entrepreneurship, cooperative management, rural business development, and regional economic participation.
- Tourism and Hospitality Management in the Philippines: Community-based tourism, hospitality enterprises, destination management, sustainable tourism, and local service industries.
- Labor, Migration, and Workforce Management: Overseas Filipino workers, migrant entrepreneurship, workforce mobility, human resource development, employee well-being, and talent retention.
- Philippine Public and Nonprofit Management: Local government management, public service delivery, institutional leadership, community organizations, and nonprofit governance.
- Digital Transformation of Philippine Enterprises: Technology adoption among MSMEs, digital entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence applications, electronic commerce, and business innovation.
- Business Sustainability and Disaster Resilience: Organizational preparedness, enterprise continuity, climate-related business risks, sustainable operations, and post-disaster business recovery.
IJRSM seeks to strengthen the international visibility of Philippine management scholarship by encouraging research that connects local business experiences with broader theoretical, methodological, and practical discussions. The journal particularly values studies that offer insights relevant to other developing and emerging economies, as well as international comparative investigations. Research concerning the Philippines are encouraged to move beyond purely descriptive accounts by demonstrating clear theoretical, analytical, methodological, or practical contributions to management knowledge.
Publication Languages and International Visibility of Philippine Scholarship
In recognition of the importance of linguistic diversity, cultural identity, and locally grounded knowledge, IJRSM welcomes scholarly contributions written in English or Filipino. The journal particularly encourages Filipino-language research examining Philippine management practices, business environments, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, leadership, and the socioeconomic and cultural dimensions of management. IJRSM recognizes that valuable management knowledge often emerges from local experiences, community-based enterprises, indigenous practices, and culturally embedded organizational relationships. By providing opportunities for scholarly work written in Filipino, the journal seeks to support the development and dissemination of Philippine management scholarship while preserving the linguistic and cultural contexts in which such knowledge is produced.
All Filipino-language manuscripts may include an English title, abstract, and keywords. These English-language elements are intended to enhance the international visibility, accessibility, and discoverability of locally grounded research, support scholarly exchange with non-Filipino-speaking audiences, and facilitate retrieval through academic search engines and indexing services, subject to their respective coverage and selection policies. Filipino-language contributions are expected to meet the same standards of scholarly rigor, originality, methodological quality, and peer review as English-language manuscripts. They must demonstrate a substantive contribution to management knowledge, theory, policy, or professional practice. Through this initiative, IJRSM seeks to bridge Philippine management experiences and international scholarship, promote culturally responsive management research, and provide Filipino researchers with opportunities to contribute to global academic discussions while retaining their national language.
Policy Basis for Filipino-Language Scholarship
IJRSM’s support for scholarly publications written in Filipino is consistent with Article XIV, Section 6 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which provides for the continuing development and use of Filipino, and Republic Act No. 7104, which established the Commission on the Filipino Language and supports the development, preservation, and promotion of Philippine languages. By providing a peer-reviewed and internationally accessible publication platform, IJRSM contributes to the advancement of Filipino as a language of academic inquiry and scholarly communication.
Emerging Research and Contemporary Management Challenges
Recognizing the rapidly changing global business environment, IJRSM encourages research examining emerging management challenges associated with technological advancement, economic uncertainty, demographic change, globalization, and organizational transformation. The journal particularly welcomes studies exploring responsible applications of artificial intelligence, digital leadership, changing employment arrangements, organizational resilience, sustainable entrepreneurship, and innovative approaches to management and governance. Research addressing management challenges in developing and emerging economies is especially encouraged when it contributes meaningful insights to broader international management scholarship.
Publication Policy: Themed Special Issues Only
IJRSM currently accepts submissions exclusively through organized, themed special issues. Individual or unsolicited manuscript submissions are not accepted. Each proposed special issue should comprise 8 to 12 scholarly papers addressing a clearly defined and coherent research theme within the journal’s scope. Special issues may focus on established or emerging areas of management, interdisciplinary business research, Philippine or regional management issues, international comparative studies, or contemporary organizational and economic challenges. Proposals may be organized by academic institutions, research groups, professional associations, conference organizers, or collaborating scholars. Each proposal should identify a coherent research theme, its scholarly significance, and a guest editor or editorial team responsible for coordinating the collection. Manuscripts written in either English or Filipino may be included in approved themed special issues. All manuscripts remain subject to editorial evaluation, peer review, and the journal’s publication standards. Approval of a special-issue proposal does not guarantee acceptance of individual manuscripts.
Researchers interested in proposing a themed special issue are invited to contact the editorial office at ijr.edu@gmail.com.
Individual Manuscript Submissions in Education
Authors wishing to submit individual research manuscripts focusing on education, educational leadership, educational administration, teaching, learning, and related fields are encouraged to consider the International Journal of Research Studies in Education (IJRSE), subject to its current submission policies and editorial requirements.
Please visit the Consortia Academia website for further information about IJRSE.
IJRSM remains committed to advancing rigorous management scholarship, supporting Philippine language and culturally grounded management research, and strengthening meaningful collaboration among researchers, business professionals, institutions, and organizations worldwide.
Last updated: October 21, 2026