International Journal of Islamic Business & Management

Aims & Scope

International Journal of Islamic Business & Management (IJIBM) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal for Islamic business & management academics. IJIBM aims is to provide to the field of Islamic business & management.The subject areas include, but are not limited to the following fields:

• Takaful
• Takaful Products and Instruments
• Islamic Management
• Islamic Economics
• Islamic Law and Society
• Islamic Brotherhood
• Islamic Marketing
• Islamic Human Resource Management
• Islamic Organizational Behavior
• Womankind
• Work Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Islamic Micro Finance
• Islamic Financial Markets
• Islamic Financial Institutions
• Trade with the Islamic world
• The Muslim consumer and consumption patterns
• Islamic branding and positioning
• Islamic franchising
• Retail and distribution channels Islamic marketing mix
• Islamic market segmentation
• Islamic pharmaceuticals and healthcare
• Islamic lifestyles
• Hospitality
• Fashion and entertainment
• Current trends in Islamic markets
• Commercialising Islam and Islamisation of commerce
• Global events and the Muslim consumer
• Halal markets and halal supply chains
• Islamic finance and Islamic microfinance
• E-Marketing in Islamic markets
• Islamic innovation and entrepreneurship
• Contemporary Islamic movement etc

International Journal of Islamic Business & Management currently has an acceptance rate of 14%. The average time between submission and final decision is 20 days and the average time between acceptance and publication is 30 days.

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Author Guidelines

1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.

2. Research papers should not exceed 8,000 words.

3. A separate title page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).

4. The first page of an article should contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a maximum of eight keywords.

5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.

6. All appendices should be numbered consecutively using uppercase roman numerals and shown after the list of references.

7. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market … These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Perera, 1995; Silva, 2000)

8. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order and follow the style of APA

9. Author should register with the journal before submitting manuscripts.

10. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted, and the publication fee should be paid within 10 working days.

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