Aims & Scope

Alamanda Research in Management (ARiM) publishes high-quality research that advances knowledge and informs practice in the broad field of management. The journal welcomes work that examines how organizations are managed and improved across individual, team, and organizational levels, including cross-level and multi-level perspectives. ARiM welcomes research conducted in diverse sectors, including private, public, and nonprofit organizations.

ARiM considers empirical studies using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method designs, including well-executed replication studies that strengthen the evidence base. The journal also welcomes systematic literature reviews (SLRs) (and, where appropriate, meta-analyses) that demonstrate a clear contribution, transparent and reproducible review procedures, and robust methodology.

Core topical coverage

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Human resource management and people management (e.g., staffing, development, rewards, retention)
  • Organizational behavior and work psychology (e.g., leadership, motivation, wellbeing, employee behavior)
  • Strategic management and organizational strategy
  • Marketing management and customer-related strategy
  • Finance and governance in organizational contexts (e.g., managerial finance, governance, behavioral finance)
  • Operations and supply chain management
  • Innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational change
  • Public management and nonprofit management

Interdisciplinary areas

ARiM welcomes interdisciplinary research drawing from fields such as sustainability science, psychology, law, and information systems/computer science when the central contribution addresses a management or organizational problem and offers clear implications for research and practice, including:

  • Climate change, sustainability, and ESG in organizational decision-making (e.g., governance, strategy, reporting, implementation)
  • Legal and regulatory issues in management (e.g., employment, compliance, governance), when linked to organizational outcomes or managerial decisions
  • Psychological perspectives relevant to management (e.g., behavioral decision-making, stress, ethics, work attitudes) in organizational settings
  • Digital transformation, information systems, business analytics, and AI-enabled management, when tied to organizational processes, behavior, performance, or governance

Out of scope

Manuscripts are unlikely to be considered if they are primarily technical (e.g., algorithm or system design) without a substantive management/organizational research question and implications, or primarily legal doctrinal analyses without organizational or managerial relevance. Purely descriptive reports without a theory-driven contribution and methodological rigor are also outside the journal’s scope.