Case Studies in Business and Management

Case Studies in Business and Management (CSBM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online by Macrothink Institute. CSBM publishes case studies — research-based, decision-oriented and teaching cases — that reflect real-world practice across business and management. It provides an academic platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to contribute innovative work and to share practical insight from actual business situations.

Journal title: Case Studies in Business and Management (CSBM)

ISSN: 2333-3324

Publisher: Macrothink Institute

Language: English

Peer review: Single-anonymized peer-review; review time 4–10 weeks

Publication model: Open Access (Gold OA; CC BY 4.0)

Publication frequency: Annual (one issue per year, published in December)

Author charges: Article Processing Charge 200USD — see the Article Processing Charges page

Abstracting and indexing: See the Indexing page

Persistent identifier: DOI (Crossref)

Contact: csbm@macrothink.org

The journal accepts article submissions online or by e-mail.

If you have any questions, please contact us at csbm@macrothink.org

The journal welcomes case studies in the following areas, including but not limited to:

• Corporate Governance and Strategy: corporate governance and board practice; strategic management and business policy; competitive strategy; mergers, acquisitions and restructuring; organisational change and leadership.
• Marketing and Consumer Behaviour: marketing management; branding; consumer behaviour; digital and social media marketing; service management and customer experience.
• Finance, Accounting and Economics: financial management and corporate finance; accounting and auditing; managerial economics; risk management; investment and capital markets.
• Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour: human resource management policy and practice; talent and performance management; organisational behaviour; leadership; employee relations.
• Operations, Supply Chain and Information Systems: production and operations management; supply chain and logistics; quality management; information technology management; e-business and digital transformation.
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Emerging Topics: entrepreneurship and small business; innovation management; business analytics and data-driven decision making; sustainability, ESG and responsible business; international and cross-cultural business.

The journal publishes research-based cases, decision-oriented cases and teaching cases (with or without teaching notes) drawn from real business situations. Submissions should offer practical insight and, where relevant, clear value for researchers, practitioners and classroom use.

Each paper published in this journal is assigned a DOI® number, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper.

a). Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-3 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editor in time for that.

b). Peer review. The review process may take 4-10 weeks.

c). Notification of the result of review by E-mail.

d). The authors revise paper and pay Article Processing Charge (200USD).

e). E-journal in PDF is available on the journal's webpage, free of charge for download. We aim to post articles within 3 weeks of acceptance.