Please submit your manuscript to Professor Kalyan Singhal at Ksinghal@ubalt.edu

Management and Business Review (MBR) explores a diverse range of topics, including accounting, artificial intelligence, business analytics, career transitions, communication, decision-making, digital transformation, finance, innovation, leadership, marketing, organizational culture, operations, strategy, and technological change. We publish articles of various lengths (typically 1,000 to 7,000 words).

Your work should be supported by research and relevant examples. It should offer executives and managers insights that they can use to become more skilled and effective. Each paper should help business leaders solve an important current problem or stay on top of new developments in technology and management thinking. It should help executives and teams to make better decisions and to put those decisions into practice.

These articles should be original and present executives and managers with ideas that are new, surprising, unique, or counterintuitive. Consider the basis of your contribution carefully. Does it draw on previous work (your own or others’); do you have supporting research and examples; are you writing from academic, professional, or personal experience? We also encourage you to submit practical articles based on the rigorous work you’ve published in prestigious research journals.

It is fine to use generative AI to brainstorm your ideas or test your arguments. However, unless you include an explicit disclosure to the contrary, the writing must be your own. If you use AI, please stay within current legal and ethical guidelines, which continue to evolve. Please be sure to clearly share with us if and how you used AI. And remember that you are accountable for the accuracy and originality of your work.

Please make the central message of your article clear and focused so that it will be persuasive to skeptical senior managers. Remember that our readers are both intelligent and busy, so your article should be engaging, free of jargon, and a pleasure to read.

Our aim is to publish articles that people want to read, from start to finish, not articles that they skim for a quote or a talking point and quickly cast aside. In service of that goal, we do not publish sentences or paragraphs explaining what the current paper will do, what will appear in later sections, or what was in previous sections. Readers will trust you to present your argument in a logical order, with each section building upon the last. Please repay their trust by being direct, clear, and concise.

Please avoid stereotypes and language that diminishes any particular group or that is dismissive of the value of human life. We also don’t publish pieces that promote or give the impression of promoting any products or services.

Please include in your submission:

Title Page: The title of the paper along with the name, title, affiliation, address, and contact information of each author. We use a single blind review process.

Disclosures: Any relevant disclosures and conflicts should be footnoted on the title page. Please remember to disclose if and how you used AI in the article. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, see Sage’s policy on conflicting interest declarations. All articles need to include a funding statement, under a separate heading, even if you did not receive funding. You’ll find guidance and examples on Sage’s Funding page. Please include ethics approval statements, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. Please also include any participant consent information and state whether informed consent to participate was written or verbal. If this is not applicable to your manuscript, please state ‘Not applicable’ in this section.

Executive Summary (150-200 words): The executive summary should be a miniature of the paper itself, directly explaining the main arguments. It should not be a prediction of what the paper will say. It will appear separately from the article when published, so it’s ok if it bears some similarity to the opening paragraph of the main paper.

Introductory Note (20-40 words): A brief, third person description of your topic, framed as a recommendation from the editors. One of its sentences should say something like “X, Y, and Z (the authors’ full names) describe/explain/illustrate …(your subject).” It should include engaging and interesting information which will encourage people to read your article.

Author Bios (40-75 words): Please begin with your name and include the positions, achievements, and qualifications you would like to emphasize. Include your email address at the end only if you wish to make it public in the journal. Please do not include personal websites, social media pages, etc.

Endnotes: We do not use parenthetical in-text citations, nor do we publish separate reference lists. All references should be presented as endnotes formatted according to CMOS guidelines for notes, with the author’s given name first. Endnotes may also be conversational, providing additional information or thoughts. We do not use links in the main text, however endnotes may contain links. Please use the ‘endnotes’ tool in Word, found under the ‘references’ menu, to create your endnotes, so that they are automatically linked to the corresponding number in the text.

A note on our editorial process

The editors will generally make an initial decision within two months. Once your paper has been accepted, our copy editor will work with you to make your paper more appealing to our readers. Our editorial process is rigorous and we may ask you to make two or more rounds of revisions.

Open Access options

Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement eligibility is determined by the corresponding author’s affiliation matching an agreement at acceptance. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access.