International Journal of Rural Management
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Rural Assets, Services, Technologies, Enterprises, and Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Transforming Pathways
Last Date of Submission: 31 March 2023
This is the first international journal that focuses exclusively on rural management as opposed to rural or community or sustainable development. Its focus is the practical dimensions of organising and managing rural enterprises and community based organisations. Hence, the journal covers the functioning of, among others, producers`cooperatives, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), self-help groups, local self-governance institutions, and organisations dealing with natural resource management.
The journal publishes both conceptual and empirical articles but favours action-oriented and practical research. It encourages the international community of scholars and practitioners to interact with each other in order to develop a rich corpus of practice and knowledge in the field.
A peer-reviewed journal, International Journal of Rural Management publishes research articles, reports of research in progress, analyses of current and topical practice, policy issues relating to rural management, and book reviews.
The overarching purpose of this important international journal is to define the field of rural management and to assist rural organisations/institutions to adopt professional management practices.
Electronic Access
International Journal of Rural Management is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/IRM
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submit your manuscript today at https://peerreview.sagepub.com/ijrm
The overarching purpose of the journal is to create a community of scholars and promote scholarship in the field of Rural Management. It does so by acting as a vehicle that promotes scholarship and disseminates knowledge. Anything rural is of interest; however, the journal has an avowed bias towards matters of policy, institutions, organizations and practices. The journal publishes conceptual, empirical and review papers in the form of research articles, reports of research in progress, analyses of current and topical practice, policy issues relating to rural management, field notes, and book reviews.
The writing style should be such that it is addressed to an international audience. It would, therefore, be necessary that names of places, at least at the beginning, should be so provided that the reader is able to locate them in a national (country) and sub-national (region/province/state) context.
IJRM is a peer reviewed journal and follows the practice of double-blind reviews.
| Saswata Narayan Biswas | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Indranil De | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Ruchi Mishra | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Soumi Roy Chowdhury | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Kushal Anjaria | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Lakshmi Padmakumari | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Upasna Agarawal | National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India |
| Sandip Anand | Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Soumyadip Chattopadhyay | Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, India |
| Debasish Maitra | Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India |
| Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Sushanta Kumar Sarma | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Nishat Kazi | Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India |
| Robert Chambers | University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| Sameer Deshpande | Associate Professor, Social Marketing, Griffith University, Australia |
| Evelyn Shyamala Devadason | University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Maureen F Dollard | University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia |
| John Farrington | Overseas Development Institute, London, UK |
| Malcolm Harper | Basix Finance, Buckinghamshire, UK |
| David Kemp | University of Sydney, Orange, Australia |
| Asfaw Kumssa | UNCRD Africa Office, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Ragnhild Lund | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Tondheim, Norway |
| Per Pinstrup-andersen | Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| Jai B. P. Sinha | ASSERT Institute of Management Studies, Patna, Bihar, India |
Submission Guidelines for International Journal of Rural Management
International Journal of Rural Management is hosted on SAGE Track Site; a web based online submission and peer review system. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then visit https://peerreview.sagepub.com/ijrm to login and submit your article online.
Guidelines for Contributors
- Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Journal Administrator.
- Contributors should provide their affiliations, and complete postal and E-mail addresses with their papers.
- Format: All articles must be submitted in a word file (preferably A4) and double-spaced throughout (not only the text but also displayed quotations, notes, references and any other matter). Each article should be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words. Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes should contain more than a mere reference.
- Spellings: Use 'z' in '-ize' and '-ization' words. Use British spellings rather than American.
- Quotations: Use single quotes. For quotations within quotations, use double quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be set apart by indenting the quotation (and adding a line space above and below).
- Numbers: Use 'nineteenth century', '1980s'. Spell out numbers from one to nine; 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km; 9 per cent). Use 'per cent' in text and '%' in tables and figures. Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized but consistent.
- Tables and figures: Should be indicated by number separately ('Table 1'), not by placement ('Table below'). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet of paper, gathering them together at the end of the article.
- References: A consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided. It should be typed in double-spacing and will be printed at the end of the article. All articles, books, and theses should be listed in alphabetical order of author, giving the author's surname first, followed by initials. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be given in chronological order. References should be embedded in text in the anthropological style. For example, '(Sarkar 1987: 145)'. Citations should be first alphabetical and then chronological. For example, '(Ahmed 1987; Sarkar 1987; Wignaraja 1960)'. The detailed style of referencing is as follows:
" Korten, D. 1995. When Corporations Rule the World. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
" Spears, L. (ed.). 1996. Reflections on Leadership. New York: John Wiley.
" Moon, C. 1994. 'Changing Patterns of Business-Government Relations in South Korea', in A. MacIntyre (ed.), Business and Government in Industrialising Asia, pp. 222-46. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
" Parke, B., Y. Zeira and T. Hatem. 1996. 'International Joint Venture Managers', Journal of International Management, 2 (1): 1-29.
" Sandee, H. 1995. 'Innovations in Production', unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Amsterdam: Free University.
" Bajaj, M. 15 June 2004. Mobile Creches.
- Book reviews: Should contain name of author and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price.
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