Vikalpa Journal

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CALL FOR PAPERSSpecial Issue on Migration and BusinessManuscript Submission Deadline: 3rd May 2020Business and Migration Workshop at IIMA: 20-21 June 2020'Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers' is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (https://iima.ac.in) since January 1976. The journal adopts a broad view of the management discipline and encourages the publication research output under several formats such as:Research articles: Research articles published in Vikalpa are expected to have substantial original contribution to the body of knowledge in management or allied disciplines. The research could be theoretical or empirical. The journal is open to publishing articles with qualitative or quantitative methodology. The recommended length of the article is up to 6,000 words. You may go through published research articles in Vikalpa for a better understanding ()Perspectives: Perspectives articles present a synthesis of the knowledge in a specific sub-field of management offering valuable lessons to management practitioners and policy makers. Typically the Perspectives call for action or rethinking by managers and policy makers in organizations. The Perspective article need not necessarily be backed by original field research. The recommended length of the article is up to 6,000 words. You may go through recently published Perspective articles in Vikalpa for a better understanding. ()Management Case: The case feature of Vikalpa encourages authors to publish real-life managerial decision contexts in the form of instructional cases for the benefit of the academia. The decision context could be centered around an organization or an individual. The case should present ample data to facilitate a rich analysis of the situation. Vikalpa publishes cases related to the various managerial sub-disciplines such as business strategy, marketing, finance, organizational behavior and human resources management etc. Each case should be accompanied by a detailed teaching note, which presents an in-depth analysis of the situation and data presented in the case by the author. The author must obtain explicit written permission from the organization involved in the case to be eligible for publication of the case. The recommended length of the case is about 3,000 words, excluding the teaching note. You may go through recently published cases in Vikalpa for a better understanding. ( and )Colloquium: Colloquium presents an intense debate among various stakeholders on a contemporary management issue where each of the stakeholders presents their view on the issue. The Colloquium is expected to educate the audience of the journal on the various facets of issue. Typically the Colloquium engages the academia, practitioners, policy makers and civil society to elicit their perspective about a certain issue. If you are interested to coordinate a Colloquium please contact with a short proposal and a brief profile of the coordinators. () Book review: Vikalpa encourages the publication of short review of recently released titles in management and allied disciplines. The recommended length of the case is about 2,000 words. You may go through recently published published book-reviews in Vikalpa for a better understanding. ()The journal strongly believes that a healthy mix of the article formats would promote a deeper and more meaningful engagement among the academia, practitioners, policy makers and the civil society. To download the detailed description of the article formats, please .

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