For more than 70 years, the Ivey Business Journal has delivered incisive, practical articles about managing to our readers. We will sustain and strengthen that tradition in Ivey Business Journal Online.

Ivey Business Journal Online will come to you every second month, and the themes that are planned for the next three issues are subjects that are important to managers everywhere: Innovation, Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility. You will also read articles about e-business, managing uncertainty, knowledge management, marketing, strategy and other topics that managers need to know more about to steer their firms to success. These articles will be written by some of the world’s leading management thinkers, consultants and practitioners. And as always, they will deliver practical suggestions that you will be able to apply to your own organization or situation.

For general enquiries, please send a note to ibjonline@ivey.uwo.ca 
 

Guidelines for submitting articles

Ivey Business Journal Online welcomes articles on a variety of topics. These range from perennials such as leadership, strategy, marketing and management, to topics that have become staples of management journals relatively more recently. These include ebusiness, knowledge management, intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, alliance management and customer relationship management.

Our primary target audience is senior managers and executives, and the value of the articles resides in the utility and practicality of the ideas discussed in them. While the articles should be analytical, substantive and even academic, readers should be able to apply some or all of what they read to their own organization or situation. The editor will make a "best effort" attempt to publish the article on the date originally specified. Owing to variety of circumstances, publication is occasionally pushed back.

Our editorial style is similar to the writing in popular management journals: The tone should be conversational rather than formal, sentences should be shorter than longer, and the tone should more often than not be active rather than passive. The editor(s) recognize that many authors are not professional writers; articles are consequently edited for style, clarity and occasionally, structure. In most cases, the editor returns a revised draft for the author's comments.

Articles should be between 2000-2500 words. Authors should first suggest a topic to the editor. Once a topic is agreed upon, authors will be asked to follow up with an abstract or outline. The first three paragraphs are key, and authors should adhere to the following guidelines for these paragraphs:


Paragraph 1: Topic introduction and overview, a broad/historical overview/situation analysis: e.g., Managing intellectual capital has emerged as one of the more important challenges for managers today…It has evolved from this..to more sophisticated discipline characterized by…

Paragraph 2: The author introduces his or her own take on the topic, saying what's wrong or missing from the way managers/organizations approach the discipline or the way the topic is treated in management literature.

Paragraph 2: The author describes the theme and purpose of the article and previews the structure. E.g., this article is divided into three sections. In Section One I will…


We do not have "conclusions" in the formal sense; authors should summarize their discussion in the last one or two paragraphs.

Other guidelines

We do not accept footnotes. Books or magazine articles should be referenced in the text, in brackets, with the author's name, title, and publisher; magazine articles should have the specific issue date.

Heads and sub-heads are acceptable, though these may be changed.

Authors should provide a one-sentence bio line, unaccompanied by any academic or professional designations. Authors who have written a relatively recent book should include its title, publisher and publication date.

We recognize that clients and consulting work for clients is a source for many authors; however, articles should not be a showcase for an author's consulting work, and they should mention a particular client no more than twice in the article.

While we welcome charts, diagrams and tables, they should contain information that illustrates or expands on - but does not replicate - information that is in the text.


Stephen Bernhut
Editor
ibjpublisher@ivey.ca
416-598-1741