Top 10 Strategy and Management Journals In The World 2026

1. Academy of Management Review

The mission of AMR is to publish theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations. Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that develop testable knowledge-based claims. To do this, researchers can develop new management and organization theory, significantly challenge or clarify existing theory, synthesize recent advances and ideas into fresh, if not entirely new theory, or initiate a search for new theory by identifying and delineating a novel theoretical problem. The contributions of AMR articles often more...

2. Academy of Management Journal

The mission of Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) is to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice. All empirical methods including, but not limited to, qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed methods are welcome. To be published in AMJ, the research must make strong empirical and theoretical contributions and the manuscript should highlight the relevance of those contributions to management practice. Authors should strive to produce original, insightful, interesting, important, and theoretically bold more...

3. Journal of Management

The Journal of Management welcomes empirical and theoretical articles dealing with micro, meso, and macro workplace phenomena. Manuscripts that are suitable for publication in the Journal of Management cover domains such as business strategy and policy, entrepreneurship, human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods. more...

4. Tourism Management

Tourism Management is the leading scholarly journal focuses on the management, including planning and policy, of travel and tourism. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining international, national and regional tourism as well as specific management issues. The journal's contents reflect its integrative approach - including primary research articles, progress in tourism research, case studies, research notes, discussion of current issues, and book reviews. As a scholarly journal, all papers published should contribute to theoretical and/or methodological advancement, in addition to more...

5. Journal of Product Innovation Management

The Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) is an interdisciplinary, international journal that seeks to advance our theoretical and managerial knowledge of innovation management and product development. The journal publishes original articles on organizations of all sizes (start-ups, small to medium sized enterprises, large corporations) and from the consumer, business-to-business, and policy domains. The journal is receptive to all types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as well as conceptual articles. Authors across the world from diverse disciplines and functional perspectives are welcome more...

6. Journal of Management Studies

Consistently highly ranked in the Business and Management categories of the Clarivate Journal Citation Reports, the Journal of Management Studies (JMS) is a globally respected, multidisciplinary journal with a long-established history of excellence in management research. JMS publishes innovative empirical and conceptual articles which advance knowledge of management and organisation broadly defined, in such fields as organization theory, organizational behaviour, human resource management, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, innovation and critical management studies. JMS has an inclusive ethos and is open to a wide range of methodological more...

7. California Management Review

California Management Review serves as a bridge of communication between those who study management and those who practice it. The journal is committed to advancing the study of management broadly, focusing on business organizations, social enterprises, hybrid organizations, and non-profit organizations. more...

8. Organizational Research Methods

Several types of articles are appropriate for ORM. One type addresses questions about existing quantitative and qualitative methods and research designs currently used by organizational researchers and may involve a comparison of alternative methods. Articles of this nature should focus on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the analytical technique(s) presented. A second type demonstrates how refinements to existing quantitative or qualitative methods might lead to advances in researchers' ability to test and propose theory. For submissions of this type, more...

9. Academy of Management Perspectives

The mission of Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) is to inform current and future “thought leaders” who, through their leadership, teaching, consulting, and/or other professional activities have the potential to influence management practice and policy. These include educators and their students, business writers, consultants, executives, policy makers, and other practitioners seeking innovative, evidence-based approaches for addressing timely and important management issues. AMP publishes papers that bridge scholarly research and practice that are based on research evidence. This evidence can be quantitative or more...

10. Strategic Management Journal

The Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish the highest quality research with questions, evidence and conclusions that are relevant to strategic management and engaging to strategic management scholars. We receive manuscripts with a diverse mix of topics, framings, and methods, and our acceptances reflect this diversity. More specifically, the Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish papers that ask and help to answer important and interesting questions in strategic management, develop and/or test theory, replicate prior studies, explore interesting phenomena, review and synthesize existing research, and more...