International Journal of Islamic Business & Management

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.

Aims & Scope

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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Paper Selection and Publication Process

1. Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-3 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editor in time for that.

2. Peer review. We use double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission. The review process may take 2-3 weeks.

3. Notification of the result of review by E-mail.

4. The authors revise paper and pay publication fee.

5. E-journal in PDF is available on the journal’s webpage, free of charge for download. We aim to post articles online within 3 weeks of acceptance.

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Open-access Policy

We follow the Gold Open Access way in journal publishing. This means that authors publish in the journals that provide immediate open access for readers to all articles on the publisher’s website. The readers pay nothing, while authors (or their institutions or funders) pay a publishing fee to maintain the journal operation.

All articles published are open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.