Vikalpa
The Journal for Decision Makers'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 (Click here for a sample)
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. (Click here for a sample)
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. (Click here for a case and Click here for a diagnoses)
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 dianaj@iima.ac.in with a short proposal and a brief profile of the coordinators. (Click here for sample)
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. (Click here for a sample)
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 click here.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vik.
The journal welcomes original papers from both academicians and practitioners in the following management disciplines:
• Accounting and management control
• Agriculture management
• Managerial communication
• Economics
• Finance and Banking
• Information Technology
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
• Public Systems, including Health and Education, and Government
• Rural Development
• Strategic Management and Leadership
| Subhadip Roy | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Rakesh Basant | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Pradeep K. Chintagunta | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA |
| Sanjiv Das | Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA |
| Elizabeth George | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Aseem Prakash | University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
| Nagesh Rao | Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, USA |
| Dilip Soman | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA |
| Asoo Vakharia | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, USA |
| Jayanth R. Varma | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Sujoy Chakravarty | Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India |
| Subhamoy Ganguly | University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand |
| Joshy Jacob | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| George Kandathil | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Amit Karna | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Sanket Mohapatra | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Soumya Mukhopadhyay | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Viswanath Pingali | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Kannan Raghunandan | College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, USA |
| Dasaratha Rama | College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, USA |
| Sanjit Roy | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| M S Sriram | Visiting Faculty, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India |
| Rama Mohana R Turaga | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Shankar Venkataraman | Bentley University, Boston, USA |
| Akshaya Vijayalakshmi | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Venkatesh Alladi | University of California Irvine, USA |
| Sajid Anwar | University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| Coskun Arslan | Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey |
| Anita Basalingappa | Mudra Institute of Communications, India |
| Sanjai Bhagat | University of Colarado Boulder, USA |
| Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Shouvik Chakraborty | University of Massachusetts Boston, USA |
| Prabal Roy Chowdhury | Indian Statistical Institute Delhi Centre, India |
| Anubha Dadhich | Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India |
| Ganga Dhanesh | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Partha Gangopadhyay | Saint Cloud State University, USA |
| Maria Madlberger | Webster University - Vienna Campus, Austria |
| Kirti Sharma | Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India |
| Rahul Sheel | XLRI Jamshedpur, India |
| Jatinder Singh | EADA Business School, Spain |
| Gordhan Saini | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India |
| Sridhar Samu | Indian School of Business Hyderabad, India |
| Paresha Sinha | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Kenji Tanaka | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Manoj Kumar Tiwari | Director at National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India |
| Kelly Tian | University of Wyoming, USA |
| Anshuman Tripathy | IIM Bangalore, India |
| Abhijeet K Vadera | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Venugopal Venkataraman | Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Netherlands |
| Brinda Viswanathan | Madras School of Economics, India |
| Ching-Chow Yang | Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan |
| Diana Joseph | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Pala Detharia | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.