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INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH: Invites original research papers, review articles, case studies and short communications that are not published or not being considered for publication on the following topics.

BUSINESS

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Business • Business Applications • Business Intelligence • Business Management • Business Process Modelling • Collaborative Systems • Corporate Information Systems • Data warehouses • Database and Data Management • Decision Support Systems • E-Business, E-Commerce • E-Government • E-Learning • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) • Information Systems and Risk Management • Information Systems Control and Audit • Information Systems Development • Information Systems Ethics • Knowledge Management • Management Information Systems • Mobile Business Information Systems • Security Issues in Business Information Systems • Web and Internet

MARKETING

Advertising • Brand relationships • Building and defending growing market share • Celebrity endorsements • Consumer attributed meanings to color usage • Consumer ethnocentrism, country and product image and origin effects; • Consumer markets and buying behavior • Cultural considerations in international marketing • Customer policy and service • Differing perspectives of green marketing – legend, myth, farce or prophesy • Effective use of concept testing • How to value your brand portfolio • Identity construction through the use of counterfeit products • Integrated marketing communications • International channel management • International market entry decisions and relationships • International retailing • Managing marketing channels • Marketing of services • Marketing planning • Marketing research to meet corporate goals • Marketing strategy • Marketing theory • New product development • Pricing • Relationship marketing • Sales force • Sales management • Segmentation • Service marketing abroad • Service quality • Social marketing • Target marketing • The buying culture • The role of brand equity models • Understanding buyer behavior & buying process • Understanding the risks of a new product launch • Winning customer loyalty.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Career interventions (systems and tools, mentoring, etc) • Career issues • Communication, participation and involvement • Competence-based management development • Cross-cultural issues • Developing HRM strategies • Developments in collective bargaining • e-HR • Emotions in the workplace • Employee communication • Employee development strategies • Employee engagement • Employee retention strategies • Employee-employer relationships • Employer branding • Employment law • Equal opportunities • Equality and diversity issues • Executive coaching and development • Gender stereotypes • Global management • Health and safety • HR business partnership • HR planning and recruitment • Individual careers – psychological and developmental perspectives • Industrial relations and employment protection law • Industrial relations management and reform • International themes and issues (MNCs, expatriation, etc) • Management and leadership styles • Managing a global workforce • Managing employees during times of change • Managing employees in mergers and acquisitions • Organizational change and people • Organizational strategies and systems • Performance management • Promoting leadership and succession planning • Quality of working life • Recruitment policies • Rewards • Sexual politics, harassment and discrimination • Work and occupational contexts • Work life balance.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Assessing and managing supply chain vulnerability • Business Process Reengineering • Capacity planning and control • Collaboration and supply chain management • Data interchange and vertical integration • Development aid logistics and supply chain management • Disaster relief operations • Distribution costing • Distribution planning • E-business and operations • Emergency logistics • Enhancement of existing processes • Global operations management • Humanitarian logistics • Information and knowledge management • Information technology • Interrelations between outsourcing and other sciences • IT systems • Just in time • Lean/agile operations • Localization issues • Logistics • Logistics, order fulfillment and distribution • Management of technology for operations • Managing supply chain disruptions • Managing technological/organizational change • Materials and inventory management • New business / process / operations models • New product and service design/development • Not-for-profit supply chains. • Operations planning, scheduling and control • Operations strategy • Plant location, design and layout • Process design • Project management in operations.

MANAGEMENT

• Arbitration • Bargaining and industrial relations • Business Strategy and Policy • Change management • Communication and Conflict • Communications management • Conflict in the public sector • Corporate social responsibility and ethics • Cost planning and control • Dispute resolution • E-business, E-commerce, E-governance • General management • ICT support systems • Information & telecommunication management • Innovation and R&D management • International Business • Knowledge Management • Management of technology for competitiveness • Mediation • Negotiation • New product and service design/development • Organizational Conflict • Performance measurement and management • Project management • Project strategy and Quality Management • Quality management and six sigma • Risk management • Stakeholder management • Strategic management • Time planning.

FINANCE

Agency Theory • Asset Pricing • Banking Systems • Behavioral Finance • Computational Finance • Corporate Finance • Corporate Governance • Derivatives • Financial Econometrics • Financial Engineering • Financial Instruments • Financial Intermediation • Financial Markets • Financial Regulation and Policy • Futures Markets • Investment Banking • Investment Policy • Portfolio Theory • Public Finance Management • Risk Management.

ACCOUNTING

Audit regulation • Financial accounting • Financial reporting of intangible assets and intellectual capital • Public sector accounting • Accounting for human capital • Accounting for specialized industry • Accounting education & ethics • Accounting information system • Islamic accounting and reporting • Management Accounting • Social and environmental reporting • Auditing • Taxation • Interdisciplinary studies related to financial reporting and accounting • Compliance costs and benefits • Financial reporting • Reporting for the future – climate change, sustainability • Accounting education – needs and trends • Taxation policy and outcomes • Forensic accounting • Fraud – identification & detection • Corporate and behavioral governance • Reporting on the internet • Alternative reporting formats • Integrated reporting • Accounting and e-business • Non-financial performance measurement and reporting • Education, training, and the role of professional accounting bodies • Financial reporting and accounting standards • Auditing • Management accounting issues • Accounting, regulation, and privatization • Accounting and accountability issues in the public sector, NGOs, multinational corporations • Accounting practices in family businesses • The impact of culture, ethnicity, and history on accounting • The role of accounting in socio-economic development and poverty reduction • Theoretical approaches to accounting • Accounting in developing economies • Approaches to management control.

ECONOMICS

Macro Economics • Micro Economics • Banking stability • Banking supervision • Banking policy • Financial markets and stability • Fiscal policy • Fiscal risk management • Public debt policy and management • Monetary policy • Regulation and law • Institutional organization • Investment management policy • Competition policy • Institutional voting policy • Crisis management: forecasting and control • Sovereign risk and management • Dependence theory • Economic methodology • Labour and regional economics • New developments in the international monetary system • The history of economic thought • Urban bias in developing countries • Foreign trade and policy • Technology economics • Labour economics • Business in transitional economies • Economic reform in developing countries • Globalisation and its impact upon economics and business • Uni, bi and multi-lateral trade and investments • Inward and outward foreign direct investments • Development of service sectors • Growth and development strategies • Poverty • Income and wealth distribution • Infrastructure • Human capital • Inflation • Unemployment • Agriculture • Microfinance • Regional development • Political economy of growth and development • Agricultural economic theory and policy • Agricultural markets • Agricultural trade • Agricultural investment • Rural finance • Resource economics and environment protection • Agricultural R&D and extensions • Employment, labor use and migration • Rural sociology • Development economics • Development of rural non-agricultural industries.