Michigan Journal of Business
Encyclopedia
The Michigan Journal of Business is a bi-annually published academic journal
run by undergraduate students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
. Founded in 2007, the Journal is the first undergraduate business journal in the United States with a worldwide audience, being distributed to over 200 University libraries in five continents. The Journal publishes distinguished theses, empirical research
, case studies, and theories in issues relating to areas of Accounting, Economics
, Finance
, Marketing
, Management
, Operations Management
, Information Systems
, Business Law, Corporate Ethics, and Public Policy
. The Journal was accepted into the Directories of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a scholarly journal database that enlists more than 3000 of the world’s leading publications.
The organization is entirely student-run, with an editorial staff of 20 students in the Department of Economics and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
. Each semester, the Journal calls for papers from undergraduate students at academic institutions. Throughout the semester, the editorial board reviews, edits, and selects work for publication. The selection rate for articles is 12%.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
run by undergraduate students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. Founded in 2007, the Journal is the first undergraduate business journal in the United States with a worldwide audience, being distributed to over 200 University libraries in five continents. The Journal publishes distinguished theses, empirical research
Empirical research
Empirical research is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empirical evidence can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively...
, case studies, and theories in issues relating to areas of Accounting, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
, Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, Operations Management
Operations management
Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...
, Information Systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
, Business Law, Corporate Ethics, and Public Policy
Public policy
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...
. The Journal was accepted into the Directories of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a scholarly journal database that enlists more than 3000 of the world’s leading publications.
The organization is entirely student-run, with an editorial staff of 20 students in the Department of Economics and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. Each semester, the Journal calls for papers from undergraduate students at academic institutions. Throughout the semester, the editorial board reviews, edits, and selects work for publication. The selection rate for articles is 12%.