International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management

About the Journal

To submit a paper to the International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, please check the current Call for Papers of IJARBM. To see the current issue and the archive, click here.

Focus & Scope / Topics


The International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management (IJARBM, ISSN: 2700-8983) is a scholarly open access journal. IJARBM publishes scholarly articles from all areas of business administration, including management and leadership, marketing and sales, consumer behavior and customer relationship management, accounting and management accounting, digital transformation and organizational management. The focus is on practical and application-oriented research findings that bridge the gap between theory and practice and provide practical implications for the management of organizations.

All articles in IJARBM are

  • rigorously, timely and construcively peer-reviewed
  • freely available Open Access (CC BY 3.0 license)
  • indexed in ResearchGate, DOAJ, Crossref and Google Scholar
  • assigned with a DOI

The International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management is also listed in the journal database (ZDB) of the German National Library, in the German National Bibliography and in the ISSN Portal.

Open Access Policy

Scientific knowledge should be available to everyone – free of charge. We as a publisher are convinced of this. That is why the IJARBM – like all our journals – is an open access journal: the papers published in the IJARBM are available to all interested readers free of charge. (Learn more about our Open Access Policy)

To cover our costs, e.g. for hosting, software, copy-editing, we charge our authors an article processing charge (APC). For more information on APC and to submit a paper to IJARBM for publication, please visit Submission & Publication section.

Publication Frequency

The journal has two issues per year.

Articles accepted in the IJARBM are immediately sent to the editorial office and published promptly within a few days after final editing. The publication is included in the respective current issue. This policy is especially helpful to authors who need timely publication.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Florian Blaschke, German University of Applied Sciences – DHAW, Germany (LinkedIn, University Website)

Deputy Chief Editor
Kinga Szabó, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences – Kaposvár Campus, Hungary (LinkedIn)

Editorial Board Members
The Editorial Board of IJARBM is an internationally composed team of researchers and practitioners who are dedicated to applied research in business and management and contribute to IJARBM.

  • Boris Miethlich, IIC University of Technology, Cambodia (LinkedIn)
  • Carsten Giebe, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany (LinkedIn)
  • Dirk Zwerenz, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany (LinkedIn)
  • Emily Martinez-Vogt, Florida Tech | Nathan M. Bisk College of Business, United States of America (LinkedIn)
  • Erik Diez, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hungary (LinkedIn)
  • Gerriet Hinrichs, HFH Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany (LinkedIn)
  • Ilka Heinze, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Germany (LinkedIn)
  • Michael Hans Gino Kraft, OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland (LinkedIn)
  • Quentin Commine, University of Strasbourg, France (LinkedIn)
  • Stamatis Papadakis, University of Crete, Greece (LinkedIn)
  • Teoh Kok Ban, SENTRAL College Penang, Malaysia (LinkedIn)
  • Vijay Anant Athavale, Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, India (LinkedIn)

Technical Editor
Atilla Wohllebe, WR Publishing, Germany (LinkedIn)