Aims and Scope
The SBS Journal of Applied Business Research is dedicated to advancing the field of applied business research by providing a platform for high-quality empirical and applied research that addresses the complexities of the global business environment. With a multidisciplinary approach, the journal fosters collaboration between academia and industry, bridging the gap between theoretical insights and practical application. Our international dimension encourages contributions from scholars and practitioners around the world, ensuring diverse perspectives and innovative solutions to contemporary business challenges.
Aims
- Advance Applied Business Research: Highlight business practices grounded in action and applied research that sustain business excellence across various sectors.
- Encourage Academic and Practitioner Engagement: Foster academic discussions and strategic analyses relevant to practitioners, focusing on managing global competition and fostering innovative business practices.
- Promote Global Collaboration: Establish a formal communication channel between universities, business schools, and management practitioners worldwide, including policymakers, government agencies, and research institutions.
- Expand Knowledge Application: Publish high-quality empirical and applied research papers that advance knowledge and its practical application in a complex global environment.
Scope
Multidisciplinary Focus: The journal covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Management and Organizational Studies: Intercultural management, cross-cultural management, organizational behavior, business ethics, human resources management, leadership, and management competencies in innovative SMEs.
- Innovation and Strategy: Innovation management, strategic management, strategic foresight, and practice/process studies.
- Finance and Accounting: Accounting, finance, IFRS, financial reporting, financial management, financial analysis, and investments.
- Digital Transformation: Digital technology, fintech, AI, cybersecurity governance, digital payments, and fraud prevention.
- Sustainability and Ethics: Research in sustainability, transportation, energy, shipping, and business ethics.
- Consumer and Cultural Studies: Consumer Culture Theory, cultural consumption, postmodernism, and fashion business.
- Public and Nonprofit Sector: Managerial economics, public economics, management control, and organizational identity in nonprofit organizations.
- Research Methodology: Emphasis on innovative methodologies, including ethnography and extreme contexts research.
The primary goal of The SBS Journal of Applied Research is to highlight those business practices based under action and applied research which sustain business excellence. It is a refereed, multidisciplinary Journal which targets to academics, business managers, CEOs and Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) candidates and graduates.
The SBS Journal wants to create a new formal channel of communication between universities and business schools and management practitioners such as policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the complex role of business.
It also aims to promote academic discussion and strategic analysis for practitioners on managing global competition in products and services for all sectors in a worldwide basis.
The publication of at SBS Journal of high-quality empirical and research applied papers that advance knowledge and its application in a complex global world helps to expand business systems thinking and business modeling issues.
Finally the Journal offers an international dimension accepting papers from any corner of the globe, it develops and increases a network of contributors and editors from many different universities and B-Schools in all continents, fostering the interrelationship of structures and processes in a global arena.
The Journal will cover areas for applied research papers and case studies in the fields of General Business, Human Resources, Marketing and Sales Management, Finance, International Business.Â
SBS Swiss Business School aims to become Switzerland’s leading Business School, recognized for its innovative contributions to business and management as well for its accomplished and dedicated faculty in a multinational & cultural environment.
