Aims & Scope

The Kaduna Business and Management Reviews (KBMR, print ISSN 2384-7468) is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice a year by the Department of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management Sciences, Kaduna State University. Its principal goal is the promotion of academic excellence in research in the management sciences and the exchange of information between the academic world, the professions and business. Articles are selected to give the reader an analytical, applicable approach to managerial problems.

SUBJECT AREAS

• Business administration and strategy — managerial capacity and organisational performance, operational management and innovation, firm characteristics and leverage, portfolio and asset allocation decisions, and the effect of economic policy on firm performance.
• Corporate governance and financial management — board attributes, ownership structure and firm size as determinants of financial performance; CEO attributes and tax planning; long-term debt and capital structure; and financial performance in manufacturing, consumer goods, hospitality and diversified firms.
• Entrepreneurship and small business — self-efficacy and entrepreneurial success, social capital and female-led micro-enterprises, financial literacy among small and medium enterprises, government agricultural and growth schemes, and social media marketing by small firms.
• Marketing and services — service quality, service failure and customer loyalty; customer satisfaction under the cashless policy; marketing orientation; and consumer-facing performance in telecommunications, hospitality and food and beverage firms.
• Human resource management and organisational behaviour — employee engagement and productivity, collective bargaining, green human resource management and employee green behaviour, human resource reform and performance-based incentives, and training and staff development.
• Banking, finance and financial inclusion — agent banking, financial inclusion, deposit money bank performance, forensic accounting and financial crime, and risk management.
• Accounting, taxation and public financial management — tax administration reform, revenue collection and revenue generation, bureaucratic accountability, and public sector performance where it bears on management.
• Development and health economics in management — health expenditure and its outcomes, healthcare service delivery and hospital management, and the wider environment in which Nigerian and African firms operate.

METHODS: quantitative studies using survey, panel, time-series or firm-level secondary data, with the population, sampling procedure, instrument and estimation technique stated; comparative and panel analyses across countries or sectors; qualitative and case-study designs with a described evidence base; mixed-methods research; and conceptual or review papers that develop a testable model or reach a defensible conclusion.

MANUSCRIPT TYPES: original research articles and review articles of not more than 15 pages, including references. Manuscripts carry a title of not more than 15 words, an abstract of not more than 250 words in italic, and three to five keywords. Text is Times New Roman 12 point, single-spaced; tables, figures and charts are placed in the body of the paper and must not break across two pages; and references are listed alphabetically at the end. Manuscripts are submitted through the journal website as a Microsoft Word .docx file of not more than 10 MB, prepared for double-blind review: author names and affiliations are entered on the submission form and must not appear in the manuscript file.

READERSHIP: academics and postgraduate students in business administration, entrepreneurship, accounting, finance and marketing; managers and business owners in Nigeria and across Africa; professional bodies and consultants; and public sector managers responsible for revenue, service delivery and institutional performance.

OUT OF SCOPE: papers with no stated method, sample or data source; descriptive accounts of a firm, sector or policy with no analysis; opinion and advocacy pieces without evidence; consultancy or in-house reports and unrevised student project work; studies with no managerial or organisational implication; purely technical, engineering or clinical work; and manuscripts already published elsewhere or under consideration by another journal.