The British Journal of Management is a quarterly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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, which was established by David T. Otley in 1990, and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Academy of Management. The journal covers all main fields of management studies: from business ethics

Business ethics

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 and organizational behaviour

Organizational studies

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 to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

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 and business economics

Business economics

Business economics as a field in applied economics uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms with labour, capital and product markets...

. The current editor-in-chief is Mustafa Özbilgin (Brunel Business School, Brunel University

Brunel University

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).

Rankings

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the British Journal of Management has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 1.385; this ranks it 64th out of 140 journals in the category "Management" and 49th out of 101 journals in the category "Business".