Aims & Scope

The KASU Journal of Management Sciences (KJMS, print ISSN 2006-9065) is a double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice a year by the Faculty of Management Sciences, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria. Its objective is to address the issues and practice of corporate and economic management in Nigeria and the African continent at large. It publishes theoretical and empirical articles across the whole range of the management sciences, and book reviews.

SUBJECT AREAS

• Accounting, auditing and financial reporting — financial reporting quality, audit systems and audit reform, capital budgeting, public sector accounting and IPSAS adoption, sustainability and environmental reporting, and the relationship between auditors, stakeholders and public trust.
• Banking, finance and investment — capital structure, liquidity and profitability of deposit money banks, corporate governance in financial institutions, risk-based supervision, stock market liberalisation and volatility, climate finance, and fund-raising by mid-sized firms.
• Business Administration and strategy — corporate governance and firm performance, business diversification, organisational design, outsourcing, appropriate technology and productivity, and the business environment facing small and medium enterprises.
• Marketing and consumer behaviour — affiliate and digital marketing, advertising and consumer buying behaviour, competitive intensity, and market-based measures of firm performance.
• Human resource management and organisational behaviour — executive management support, motivation, employee retention, diversity management, green HR practices, organisational commitment and job satisfaction, and leadership style in public and private organisations.
• Entrepreneurship and small business — digital and youth entrepreneurship, skill acquisition and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and the performance of small and medium enterprises.
• Public Administration, governance and policy — public sector performance, public financial management budgeting reform, local government administration and corruption, policy implementation in conflict-prone communities, service delivery in health, water and basic education, and internally generated revenue.
• Economics and development — inflation dynamics and exchange rates, foreign direct investment and carbon emissions, social protection expenditure and poverty reduction, and food security.

METHODS: quantitative studies using survey, panel, time-series or firm-level secondary data with the population, sample, instrument and estimation technique stated; qualitative and case-study work with a described design and evidence base; mixed-methods designs; systematic and critical literature reviews that reach a defensible conclusion; conceptual and theoretical papers that develop a testable model; and book reviews of recent scholarly works in the management sciences.

MANUSCRIPT TYPES: original research articles, review articles, conceptual papers and book reviews, 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, and three to five keywords. Text is Times New Roman 12 point, single-spaced, with tables and figures embedded in the body and not split across pages, and references 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 Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Marketing, Procurement and Public Administration; managers and practitioners in Nigerian and African firms; public sector administrators and policy makers; and professional bodies in the management disciplines.

OUT OF SCOPE: papers with no stated method, sample or data source; descriptive summaries of a policy or institution with no analysis; consultancy or in-house reports and unrevised student project work; opinion and advocacy pieces without evidence; work in clinical medicine, engineering or the natural sciences unless the contribution is genuinely one of management; studies whose findings cannot be related to organisations, markets or Public Administration; and manuscripts already published elsewhere or under consideration by another journal.