As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.docx) format, with the title page and author details kept in a separate file so that the manuscript can be reviewed anonymously.
All identifying information has been removed from the manuscript, including author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and self-identifying references, and from the file properties.
The manuscript follows the journal’s formatting guidelines, with consistent headings, numbered tables and figures, and the specified referencing style (for example, APA 7th edition).
Tables and figures are placed in the text, are legible, numbered and captioned, and are cited in the text. Any material from other sources has permission to be reproduced.
Every in-text citation appears in the reference list, and every reference is cited in the text. DOIs or URLs are provided where available.
The abstract is within the stated word limit and states the purpose, method, key findings, and contribution. Three to six keywords are supplied.
The use of any AI tools in preparing the text is disclosed, in line with the journal’s policy.
All authors have been listed with full names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID iDs. The corresponding author is identified.
The authors have read and agree to the journal’s Copyright Notice and Privacy Statement, and to the open-access licence (for example CC BY 4.0).
The manuscript has been proofread for language, grammar, and consistency.
Author Guidelines
Aims and scope
TKM International Journal for Research in Management publishes original, rigorous research in management, commerce, accounting and finance, and sustainability. We welcome empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions that advance knowledge and are relevant to scholars, practitioners and policymakers.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Finance, investment, banking and financial markets
Accounting, auditing, taxation and corporate reporting
Marketing, consumer behaviour and branding
Human resource management and organisational behaviour
Operations, supply chain and business analytics
Entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy
Sustainability, ESG, corporate social responsibility and green finance
International business, economics and public policy relevant to management
Types of articles
Research articles (up to 8,000 words including references): original empirical or theoretical work.
Review articles (up to 9,000 words): systematic reviews, bibliometric studies, meta-analyses or critical syntheses.
Case studies (up to 5,000 words): management cases with teaching notes or analytical insight.
Originality and publication ethics
Manuscripts must be original, not published elsewhere and not under consideration by another journal.
The journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate submission, and data manipulation are grounds for rejection or retraction.
All submissions are screened with similarity-detection software. The overall similarity should not exceed 15%, with no more than 2% from any single source.
Research involving human participants must state ethics approval and informed consent.
Use of generative AI must be disclosed in the methods or acknowledgements. AI tools cannot be listed as authors, and authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy and originality of the content.
Authorship
Authorship is limited to those who made a substantial contribution and approved the final version. State each author’s contribution using the CRediT taxonomy. Give full names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID iDs, and identify the corresponding author. Changes to the author list after submission need the written agreement of all authors and approval from the editor.
Peer review
The journal uses double-anonymous peer review. Submissions are first screened by the editors for scope, originality and quality, then sent to at least two independent reviewers. Prepare two files:
a title page with the title, author details, affiliations, ORCID iDs, acknowledgements and declarations;
an anonymised manuscript with no identifying information, including in the file properties and in references to the authors’ own work, which should be written in the third person.
Manuscript preparation
File format: Microsoft Word (.docx), A4, Times New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing.
Language: clear, formal academic English; proofread before submission.
Title: concise and informative (up to 20 words).
Abstract: 150 to 250 words, stating the purpose, design and method, key findings, originality or contribution, and implications.
Keywords: 4 to 6.
Classification: where relevant, add JEL codes.
Suggested structure: Introduction; Literature Review and Hypothesis Development; Data and Methodology; Results; Discussion with theoretical and managerial implications, limitations and future research; Conclusion; References.
Tables and figures: numbered, captioned, cited in the text and placed within the manuscript. Tables must be editable, not images; figures must be high resolution and legible in black and white. Permission must be obtained for reproduced material.
Statistical reporting: give test statistics, degrees of freedom, exact p-values, and effect sizes with confidence intervals. State the software used, the sample size, the data source, and the time period.
Quantitative finance and accounting studies: describe the data source, variable definitions, sample selection and robustness checks, and specify the estimation method.
Qualitative studies: describe the sampling, data collection, coding procedure, and the steps taken to establish trustworthiness.
References
Follow APA 7th edition. Every in-text citation must appear in the reference list and vice versa, with DOIs where available. Authors are encouraged to cite relevant recent work from international journals.
Declarations
Include these statements on the title page:
Funding sources
Conflicts of interest
Data availability
Ethics approval and informed consent, where applicable
Acknowledgements
Submission process
Register on the journal website, upload the title page and anonymised manuscript, add the supplementary files, and complete the Submission Preparation Checklist. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may be returned before review.
After acceptance
Accepted papers are copyedited and typeset. Authors receive proofs and must return corrections within three days. Only essential changes are allowed at proof stage. Articles are published online in the current issue.
Copyright, licence and charges
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal a licence to publish under CC BY 4.0, which allows reuse with attribution. There are no article processing charges and no submission fees.
Contact
For queries, contact the editorial office at editor.tkmijrm@tkmim.ac.in
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Copyright Notice
Author rights Authors retain copyright in their work. By submitting a manuscript to TKM International Journal for Research in Management, authors grant the journal the non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive the article in print and online, including in indexing services and repositories.
Licence Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Anyone may share, copy, redistribute, adapt and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal, include a link to the licence, and indicate whether changes were made.
Author warranties By submitting, authors confirm that:
the work is original, is their own, and has not been published elsewhere or submitted to another journal at the same time;
they have the right to grant these permissions, and any third-party material (figures, tables, images, long quotations) is used with written permission or under an applicable licence, and is clearly credited;
the work does not infringe any copyright or other rights and contains no unlawful or defamatory material;
all listed authors have approved the manuscript and this notice.
Reuse by authors Authors may post the submitted manuscript, the accepted manuscript and the published version in institutional or subject repositories, on personal or institutional websites and in later works, provided the original publication in this journal is cited, with the DOI where available.
Republication If an article is later reproduced elsewhere, the original publication in TKM International Journal for Research in Management must be acknowledged.
Corrections and retraction The journal may correct or retract published work in line with COPE guidelines. The rights granted here continue for the version of record, and retracted articles remain available with a clear retraction notice.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
