SILK ROAD JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

Aims and Scope

Historically, the Silk Road was a space of exchange, encounter, and mutual learning, connecting distant regions through the circulation of ideas, practices, and material goods. Inspired by this legacy, the Silk Road Journal of Management provides a forum for scholarly work that approaches management, organizations, and work as globally connected yet locally enacted phenomena.

The journal publishes research that helps scholars, practitioners, and policy actors make sense of contemporary challenges in management, organizations, and work. It focuses on timely and consequential phenomena and seeks to inform management practice and policy by offering empirically grounded and theoretically informed insights into how managerial and organizational issues unfold across diverse social, cultural, institutional, and historical settings.

While many contributions engage with specific empirical or regional contexts, the journal places strong emphasis on the development of insights that extend beyond any single setting. Submissions are expected to articulate their relevance for a global scholarly and practitioner audience, demonstrating how contextually grounded analyses contribute to broader conversations in management, organization, and work.

Silk Road Journal of Management welcomes work that reinterprets existing research, develops conceptual and theoretical arguments, and critically examines emerging issues of scholarly, practical, and policy relevance. Contributions are expected to engage seriously with theory and prior scholarship, while remaining oriented toward interpretation, explanation, and meaningful contribution rather than abstraction detached from organizational or societal concerns.

The journal welcomes submissions from all regions of the world and is particularly receptive to insights from diverse, underrepresented, and transitional contexts, provided such work speaks to issues of wider relevance beyond the focal setting. It embraces pluralism in perspectives, methods, and epistemological traditions and encourages contributions that engage with tensions, contradictions, and competing viewpoints in management research, practice, and policy.

ARTICLE TYPES

Submitted articles should help scholars, practitioners, and policy actors make sense of significant developments, dilemmas, and transformations in management, organizations, and work. Rather than reporting incremental findings, contributions should prioritize interpretation and understanding, integrating empirical material, existing research, and real-world developments to illuminate what is happening, why it matters, and what can be learned for managerial practice, organizational action, and public policy.

Silk Road Journal of Management publishes two main types of contributions:

  • Research Articles

Research Articles form the core of the journal. These contributions are expected to be empirically grounded and theoretically informed.

Submitted Research Articles typically:

  • Take as their starting point a timely and consequential phenomenon (e.g., emerging organizational forms, shifting work practices, regulatory changes, crises, or societal transformations);
  • Draw on original empirical material, systematic analysis of data, or carefully selected and analytically developed cases;
  • Use theory and prior research as resources for interpretation, not as ends in themselves;
  • Develop insights that extend beyond the immediate empirical context;
  • Translate findings into clear implications, lessons, or questions for managers, organizations, and policymakers.

Articles should be written in clear, accessible prose and speak to a broad audience, including academics, educators, practitioners, consultants, and policymakers. The journal aims to serve as a platform for sustained scholarly conversation that bridges research, practice, and policy, contributing to a more inclusive and globally informed understanding of management, organization, and work.

Indicative length: 7,000–9,000 words (including references)

  • Perspectives

Perspectives offer a complementary format for advancing timely reflection, interpretation, and dialogue on emerging issues in management, organizations, and work.

These contributions may be more conceptual, interpretive, or practice-oriented, and are often invited by the editorial team, although proposals may also be considered.

Perspectives may include:

  • Conceptual reflections that reinterpret existing research in light of new or evolving phenomena;
  • Dialogues between scholars and practitioners, where insights from organizational leaders are critically examined, contextualized, and developed through academic analysis to inform broader management debates.

Perspectives are expected to remain analytically rigorous and clearly positioned within broader conversations, even when they are less empirically intensive than Research Articles.

Indicative length: typically shorter and more flexible (e.g., 3,000–6,000 words)