British Academy of Management renews its journals publishing agreement with Wiley

We are delighted to announce the continuation of our partnership with global publisher Wiley to produce our field-leading journals, British Journal of Management (BJM) and International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) for a further five years from January 2024. BAM and Wiley have worked closely together since BJM was launched in 1990, and the growing reputations and readership of both journals is testament to the success of that partnership. In 2022 the two journals received a combined total of nearly 1,500 submissions, and downloads rose once again to approach 1.3 million. Both figures reflect significant year-on-year increases.

The scholarly publishing landscape is changing both swiftly and radically, especially in light of the Open Access publishing movement. We have confidence in Wiley’s approach to building new and sustainable business models during this transformation. The popularity of Open Access publishing in our journals is soaring, facilitated by the transformational deals that Wiley has struck with library consortia and funders in countries around the world.  In 2022 more than 2/3 of the articles published in BJM and IJMR were published by this means.

This new agreement follows an in-depth review, carried out by BAM’s Vice Chairs for Research & Publications and the BAM CEO, and is heartily endorsed by the BAM Executive as a means of keeping our journals on a sustainable footing. It provides us with the ability to further grow the journals’ global reach and reputations as values-led outlets for excellent research with strong editorial teams committed to author development.

Professor Emma Parry, Chair of the British Academy of Management, said, “I am very pleased to see the renewal of our successful long-term publishing relationship with Wiley. Our journals continue to go from strength to strength and lie at the heart of our mission as a learned society and the leading community for management scholars.”