BUSINESS & SOCIETY
Impact Factor (Clarivate, 2025)
2-year impact factor: 3.8
5-year impact factor: 7.7
Ranking: 56/323 in Business
Business & Society aims to be the leading, peer-reviewed outlet for scholarly work dealing specifically with the intersection of business and society. We publish research that develops, tests and refines theory, and which enhances our understanding of important societal issues and their relation to business.
The journal is built on the following aspirations:
Openness to diversity. We publish conceptual, empirical and normative research, based on a variety of disciplinary lenses and methodological approaches.
A review process that ensures scholarly excellence not simply conformity to the status quo. We aim to publish innovative work, which at times may deviate from the mainstream of management research by challenging assumptions and/or providing thought-provoking perspectives. However, it will always meet high standards of quality.
Timely decision making on submissions. Authors will be provided with decisions on the publishability of their manuscripts at the earliest possible occasion. Our goal is for the majority of published papers to have received a decision on publishability after the first revision has been evaluated.
Founded in 1960, Business & Society was the first journal exclusively dedicated to publishing research in the field of business and society. It is the official journal of the International Association of Business and Society.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Editorial Board
Co-Editors
Punit Arora, City University of New York, USA
Naomi Gardberg, City University of New York, USA
Céline Louche, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Conversations/Commentaries Editors
Sarah Glozer, University of Bath, UK
Sébastien Mena, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Deputy Editors
Maoliang Bu, Nanjing University, China
Collins Ntim, University of Southampton, UK
Simon Pek, University of Victoria, Canada
Lea Stadtler, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
Community Development Team
Emilia Filippi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
José-Carlos García-Rosell, University of Oulu, Finland
Bart Leyen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Mehdi Samimi, City College of New York, USA
Joyce Treptow, The United Nations University, The Netherlands