Vikalpa
The Journal for Decision Makers'Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers' is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (https://iima.ac.in) since January 1976. The journal adopts a broad view of the management discipline and encourages the publication research output under several formats such as:
Research articles: Research articles published in Vikalpa are expected to have substantial original contribution to the body of knowledge in management or allied disciplines. The research could be theoretical or empirical. The journal is open to publishing articles with qualitative or quantitative methodology. The recommended length of the article is up to 6,000 words. You may go through published research articles in Vikalpa for a better understanding (Click here for a sample)
Perspectives: Perspectives articles present a synthesis of the knowledge in a specific sub-field of management offering valuable lessons to management practitioners and policy makers. Typically the Perspectives call for action or rethinking by managers and policy makers in organizations. The Perspective article need not necessarily be backed by original field research. The recommended length of the article is up to 6,000 words. You may go through recently published Perspective articles in Vikalpa for a better understanding. (Click here for a sample)
Management Case: The case feature of Vikalpa encourages authors to publish real-life managerial decision contexts in the form of instructional cases for the benefit of the academia. The decision context could be centered around an organization or an individual. The case should present ample data to facilitate a rich analysis of the situation. Vikalpa publishes cases related to the various managerial sub-disciplines such as business strategy, marketing, finance, organizational behavior and human resources management etc. Each case should be accompanied by a detailed teaching note, which presents an in-depth analysis of the situation and data presented in the case by the author. The author must obtain explicit written permission from the organization involved in the case to be eligible for publication of the case. The recommended length of the case is about 3,000 words, excluding the teaching note. You may go through recently published cases in Vikalpa for a better understanding. (Click here for a case and Click here for a diagnoses)
Colloquium: Colloquium presents an intense debate among various stakeholders on a contemporary management issue where each of the stakeholders presents their view on the issue. The Colloquium is expected to educate the audience of the journal on the various facets of issue. Typically the Colloquium engages the academia, practitioners, policy makers and civil society to elicit their perspective about a certain issue. If you are interested to coordinate a Colloquium please contact dianaj@iima.ac.in with a short proposal and a brief profile of the coordinators. (Click here for sample)
Book review: Vikalpa encourages the publication of short review of recently released titles in management and allied disciplines. The recommended length of the case is about 2,000 words. You may go through recently published published book-reviews in Vikalpa for a better understanding. (Click here for a sample)
The journal strongly believes that a healthy mix of the article formats would promote a deeper and more meaningful engagement among the academia, practitioners, policy makers and the civil society. To download the detailed description of the article formats, please click here.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vik.
The journal welcomes original papers from both academicians and practitioners in the following management disciplines:
• Accounting and management control
• Agriculture management
• Managerial communication
• Economics
• Finance and Banking
• Information Technology
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
• Public Systems, including Health and Education, and Government
• Rural Development
• Strategic Management and Leadership
| Subhadip Roy | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Rakesh Basant | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Pradeep K. Chintagunta | The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
| Sanjiv Das | Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA |
| Elizabeth George | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Aseem Prakash | University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
| Nagesh Rao | Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, USA |
| Dilip Soman | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA |
| Asoo Vakharia | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, USA |
| Jayanth R. Varma | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Sourav Borah | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Sujoy Chakravarty | Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India |
| Subhamoy Ganguly | University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand |
| Sanjay Kumar Jena | BML Munjal University, Gurugram, India |
| Amit Karna | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Sanket Mohapatra | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Soumya Mukhopadhyay | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Neerav Nagar | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India |
| Viswanath Pingali | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Kannan Raghunandan | College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, USA |
| Dasaratha Rama | College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, USA |
| Sanjit Roy | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| Aastha Tripathi | Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India |
| Rama Mohana R Turaga | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Biju Varkkey | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Shankar Venkataraman | Bentley University, Boston, USA |
| Sanjay Verma | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Akshaya Vijayalakshmi | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Venkatesh Alladi | University of California Irvine, USA |
| Sajid Anwar | University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| Coskun Arslan | Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey |
| Anita Basalingappa | Mudra Institute of Communications, India |
| Sanjai Bhagat | University of Colarado Boulder, USA |
| Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Ashutosh Bhave | University of Arkansas, USA |
| Shouvik Chakraborty | University of Massachusetts Boston, USA |
| Prabal Roy Chowdhury | Indian Statistical Institute Delhi Centre, India |
| Anubha Dadhich | Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India |
| Ganga Dhanesh | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Partha Gangopadhyay | Saint Cloud State University, USA |
| Maria Madlberger | Webster University - Vienna Campus, Austria |
| Danqing Mei | Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China |
| Gordhan Saini | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India |
| Sridhar Samu | Indian School of Business Hyderabad, India |
| Kirti Sharma | Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India |
| Rahul Sheel | XLRI Jamshedpur, India |
| Jatinder Singh | EADA Business School, Spain |
| Paresha Sinha | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Kenji Tanaka | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Kelly Tian | University of Wyoming, USA |
| Manoj Kumar Tiwari | Director at National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India |
| Anshuman Tripathy | IIM Bangalore, India |
| Abhijeet K Vadera | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Venugopal Venkataraman | Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Netherlands |
| Brinda Viswanathan | Madras School of Economics, India |
| Ching-Chow Yang | Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan |
| Diana Joseph | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
| Pala Detharia | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India |
Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, primarily addresses people engaged in the practice of management. The mix of research-based articles, reflective perspectives, cases, notes and commentaries, and debate, that Vikalpa carries, aims at communicating management knowledge generated by academic thinking and reflection to practitioners and policy makers in the private, public and governmental sectors. We invite contributions that serve this purpose by communicating new concepts, fresh conclusions from research, lessons from practice, and insights into management excellence. Papers based on theoretical or empirical research should especially emphasize the practical applicability and/or policy implications of the work described. All contributions are peer-reviewed.
Manuscripts must be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vik. For manuscript submission related questions, please contact dianaj@iima.ac.in.
- Declaration of conflicting interests
Vikalpa encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
- Publication ethics
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
The manuscript should be accompanied by the following:
(1) An abstract of 80–100 words;
(2) An executive summary of about 400 words along with five key words;
(3) A brief biographical sketch (60–80 words) of the author/s describing current designation and affiliation, specialization, number of books and articles published in refereed journals, and membership on editorial boards and companies, etc.
Vikalpa has the following features:
Perspectives presents emerging issues and ideas that call for action or rethinking by managers, administrators, and policy makers in organizations. Recommended length of the article: up to 6,000 words.
Research includes research articles that focus on the analysis and resolution of managerial and academic issues based on analytical and empirical or case research. Recommended length of the article: up to 6,000 words.
Interfaces presents articles focusing on managerial applications of management practices, theories, and concepts. Recommended length of the article: up to 6,000 words.
Notes and Commentaries present preliminary research, review of literature, and comments on published papers or on any relevant subject. Recommended length of the articles: up to 6,000 words.
Colloquium includes debate on a contemporary topic. Both academicians and practitioners discuss the topic.
Management Case describes a real-life situation faced, a decision or action taken by an individual manager or by an organization at the strategic, functional or operational levels. (Cases should be accompanied by a teaching note.) Recommended length of the case: about 3,000 words.
Diagnoses presents analyses of the management case by academicians and practitioners. The case problems are examined, their causes are analysed, and issues of relevance are discussed.
Book Reviews covers reviews of current books on management.
All tables, charts, and graphs should be in black and not in colour. Wherever necessary, the source should be indicated at the bottom. The number and the complexity of exhibits should be as low as possible. All figures should be indicated in million and billion. Endnotes, italics, and quotation marks should be kept to the minimum.
Authors are expected to adhere to standards of correct academic writing. References should be complete in all respects, with authors’ surnames arranged alphabetically, following conventional citation styles. We request authors to follow the APA Style developed by the American Psychological Association. Please refer to the following resources (or any recent updates) for more information:
American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6thed.). Washington, DC: Author.
American Psychological Association. (2007). APA style guide to electronic references (PDF). Washington, DC: Author.Available from www.apa.org/books/
In this style, the in-text citation for a journal article appears as follows: Datta (2012, p. 25) concludes that “high license fee leads to a fall in the average physical investment in the telecommunication industry.” The full reference in the list of references will be:
Datta, D. (2012). Spectrum auction and investment in telecom industry: A suggested policy. Vikalpa, 37(1), 19–30. Please refer to the resources indicated earlier for information on how to cite other kinds of sources like books, electronic material, websites, unpublished material etc.
Copyright Wherever copyrighted material is used, the authors should be accurate in reproduction and obtain permission from copyright holders, if necessary. Articles published in Vikalpa should not be reproduced or reprinted in any form, either in full or in part, without prior written permission from the Editor.
Review Process Two or more referees review all contributions by following the ‘double blind’ system. There view process usually takes about three months to one year. Vikalpa reserves the right to make editorial amendments to the final draft of the manuscript to suit the journal’s requirements.