Advances in International Management: Scopus, Scope & Submission Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Advances in International Management?

Advances in International Management is an Emerald Publishing research annual/book series in international management. It publishes conceptual and empirical research on international topics from across the management field, including strategy, organization theory and behavior, human resource management, business ethics, entrepreneurship, technology management, and related areas.

The official Emerald description allows research on domestic or multinational organizations and at either macro or micro levels. What connects suitable work is the international, cross-border, global, regional, or comparative management problem and the expectation of a meaningful contribution to international-management knowledge.

For publication planning, researchers should not assume AIM behaves like a standard journal with continuous submissions, a fixed APC, a routine manuscript template, or a public average review time. Verify the current Emerald collection, any active edited volume or call for contributions, and the latest Scopus source profile before preparing a submission.

Key Takeaways

• Source type: Emerald research annual/book series, not a conventional rolling journal.
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited.
• ISSN: 1571-5027 (print), confirmed by the ISSN Portal.
• Scopus source record: 5000158118, as supplied in the source record for this task; verify current coverage and status in Scopus.
• Scope: international and cross-border management research across multiple management disciplines.
• Research types: official Emerald copy explicitly mentions conceptual and empirical papers.
• Submission model: a generic rolling submission portal was not identified in the official series information reviewed.
• Metrics, fees, acceptance rate and review time: do not infer them; reconfirm current values and volume-specific terms before submission.

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• AIM’s publication identity and why “book series” matters
• Official aims, scope, subject coverage, and contribution expectations
• Scopus source information and responsible use of changing metrics
• Research types and examples of topics that may fit
• How to assess manuscript–series alignment
• What is and is not publicly stated about submission, peer review, fees, and timelines
• Practical manuscript-readiness checks before contacting editors or responding to a call
• How Contentxprtz can provide ethical editing and publication-readiness support without promising acceptance

Methodology and Sources

This profile was prepared from the journal/source record supplied with this task and authoritative public sources, prioritising the official Emerald collection and bookstore pages and the ISSN Portal. The Emerald pages provide the series description, editors, online start date, ISSN, volume list, and stated contribution threshold. The ISSN Portal independently confirms the title and print ISSN.

Scopus metrics, quartiles, source activity status, editorial arrangements, calls for contributions, fees, and policies can change. Where a current value could not be verified from an authoritative public page, this guide labels it for verification rather than estimating it. This is particularly important for researchers whose institution requires a specific current quartile, active Scopus status, or reporting-year metric.

What Is Advances in International Management in More Detail?

AIM sits at the intersection of international business and management research. Its official description emphasises the cross-border study of organizations and management practices and welcomes work framed from global, regional, or comparative perspectives. This means a manuscript should ordinarily do more than apply a familiar management idea in a single setting; it should explain why the international context changes, extends, challenges, or enriches what is known.

Emerald’s collection demonstrates a themed-volume model. Visible volumes have focused on subjects such as global entrepreneurship, emerging economies and multinational enterprises, institutional theory in international business, subsidiary dynamics, global value chains, global mindset, international human-resource practices, and managing multinational teams. For authors, the practical implication is that fit may depend both on the broad AIM scope and on the theme of a particular edited volume.

The official Emerald page currently displays editors Laszlo Tihanyi, Torben Pedersen, and Timothy Devinney and identifies Emerald Publishing Limited as the series copyright holder. Because edited-series roles can change, prospective contributors should reconfirm the current editorial contact before sending a manuscript or proposal.

Aims and Scope

The official aim is to advance research on organizations and management practices across borders, using global, regional, or comparative perspectives. AIM explicitly encourages interdisciplinary inquiry that integrates ideas from multiple academic disciplines.

Emerald states that conceptual and empirical papers may address international topics from any area within management. Named examples include strategy, organization theory and behavior, human resource management, business ethics, entrepreneurship, and technology management. The organizations studied may be domestic or multinational, and the level of analysis may be macro or micro.

What that can mean for manuscript fit

As an editorial interpretation of the official scope, a potentially suitable manuscript might examine multinational strategy, cross-national organizational behavior, headquarters–subsidiary relationships, international HRM, emerging-market multinationals, global entrepreneurship, institutions and international business, global value chains, knowledge transfer, comparative management, cross-border ethics, or technology management across national or regional contexts.

A manuscript may be less suitable if the international dimension is incidental—for example, a purely domestic management study with no cross-border theory, comparative argument, international mechanism, or relevance to the international-management literature. Researchers should also avoid assuming that a topic fits merely because data were collected outside their home country.

What Kind of Contribution Does AIM Expect?

Emerald’s bookstore description gives unusually useful guidance: for acceptance, a paper must make a significant contribution to knowledge about international management through some combination of new theoretical insights, managerial application, methodology, or data.

For researchers, this creates a practical test. A manuscript should be able to explain, in a few sentences, what is genuinely added: a theoretical extension, a new international mechanism, a comparative finding, a novel dataset, a method that changes what can be learned, or a managerial insight that is tightly grounded in evidence. Simply confirming a known relationship in a new country may not be enough unless the international setting changes the explanation or meaning of the result.

Article Types and Publication Format

The official Emerald description explicitly refers to conceptual and empirical papers. AIM’s publication history is organised as edited volumes containing chapters/papers around international-management themes. This differs from a standard issue-based journal workflow.

No comprehensive, current list of standardized manuscript categories—such as “research article,” “review article,” “short communication,” or “case report”—was located on the official collection page. Authors should therefore use the terminology and requirements of the specific volume, editor invitation, or call for contributions they are targeting.

Scopus Indexing, Source ID and Metrics

The supplied record for this page identifies Scopus Source Record ID 5000158118 and links to the corresponding Scopus source profile. This is the correct identifier to use when distinguishing AIM from similarly named publications.

However, source status and metrics are reporting-year dependent. A historical Scopus record does not by itself prove that a source is currently active, that every recent volume is covered, or that a particular CiteScore/quartile applies today. Researchers who need a current institutional eligibility check should open the Scopus source profile and record the coverage dates, active/discontinued indicator, CiteScore year, percentile/category, quartile if shown, SJR, and SNIP as applicable.

This guide does not reproduce a CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, or quartile because a current authoritative Scopus metric view was not publicly retrievable during preparation. That omission is deliberate: a missing current metric is safer than a stale or fabricated one.

Submission Requirements and How to Submit

A standard rolling manuscript submission portal was not identified on the official AIM collection pages reviewed. This is consistent with the source being presented as a research annual/book series with themed edited volumes rather than a conventional journal.

Before preparing a submission, authors should check the official Emerald AIM collection for the current volume or call, identify the responsible editors, and follow any volume-specific instructions. Where a call provides requirements for abstract length, full-paper word count, structure, referencing, figures, permissions, deadlines, or submission email/system, those instructions should take precedence over generic publishing advice.

Practical publication-readiness checklist

1. Confirm that the active volume or call is genuinely part of AIM and matches ISSN 1571-5027.
2. State the international-management contribution clearly in the title, abstract, and introduction.
3. Connect the manuscript to relevant international-management theory rather than adding an international label at the end.
4. Use recent and foundational literature appropriate to the volume theme.
5. Explain why the countries, regions, firms, institutions, or cross-border context matter analytically.
6. Align methods and evidence with the research question and report limitations transparently.
7. Follow the exact editor or volume instructions for formatting and references.
8. Prepare permissions for third-party tables, figures, scales, or lengthy excerpts where required.
9. Check authorship, conflicts of interest, funding acknowledgements, data statements, and research-ethics approvals as applicable.

Peer Review, Acceptance Rate and Publication Timeline

The official series material reviewed does not publicly state a single peer-review model, a series-wide acceptance rate, or an average review-to-publication timeline. These values should not be estimated from third-party websites or inferred from ordinary journal practice.

Because AIM operates through edited volumes, review and production arrangements may be volume-specific. Authors should ask the current volume editor or consult the relevant Emerald call for contributions for the actual review stages, revision expectations, deadlines, and expected publication schedule.

Open Access and Publication Fees

The official collection includes content marked as available to purchase, and AIM is presented through Emerald’s books platform. A standard series-wide article processing charge for ordinary rolling submissions was not verified in the official pages reviewed.

Authors should therefore confirm the publishing model for the specific volume and contribution. If an open-access option is offered, check the current licence, eligibility, funder compliance, fee, waiver terms, and whether the charge applies to a chapter, volume, or another publishing route. Never rely on an old fee quoted by an unofficial directory.

Publication Ethics and Author Responsibilities

The AIM collection page reviewed does not provide a complete standalone ethics code for the series. Authors should follow the current Emerald publishing policies and any volume-specific requirements. As a practical scholarly standard, the manuscript should have original and accurately represented work, appropriate authorship, traceable sources, transparent methods, disclosure of conflicts and funding, and required ethics approvals for research involving people, sensitive data, or regulated contexts.

Authors using professional editing or AI-assisted tools should also check current Emerald disclosure rules and their institution’s policies. Editing support should improve language, organisation, and compliance without fabricating data, references, peer reviews, or authorship contributions.

Who Should Consider Publishing in AIM?

AIM may be relevant to researchers in international business, strategy, organizational theory, organizational behavior, human-resource management, entrepreneurship, business ethics, technology management, and related management disciplines when the core research question is meaningfully international or cross-border.

PhD scholars and early-career researchers should pay particular attention to the publication format. If a doctoral programme specifically requires a “journal article,” a “Scopus-indexed journal,” or a current Q1/Q2 journal, do not assume a Scopus-indexed book series satisfies that rule. Show your supervisor or research office the exact Scopus source record and Emerald publication type and ask for written confirmation of eligibility.

How to Decide Whether AIM Suits Your Manuscript

How to Prepare a Stronger, AIM-Aligned Manuscript

As a practical publication-readiness step, read several chapters from the most relevant AIM volumes before drafting the final version. Look for how authors frame international contribution, connect theory to cross-border context, justify country or firm selection, and explain implications.

Strengthen the abstract so it answers five questions quickly: What international-management problem is studied? What theory or conceptual lens is used? What data or approach is used? What is found or argued? What new contribution follows? Then check that the introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion all deliver on the same contribution.

For empirical work, be explicit about sampling across countries or firms, measurement comparability, institutional differences, translation procedures if relevant, common-method concerns, endogeneity or selection issues where applicable, and the limits of generalisation. For conceptual work, make the theoretical tension and boundary conditions visible rather than presenting a broad narrative review.

How Contentxprtz Can Support Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can ethically support researchers with manuscript editing, language polishing, structure and argument clarity, reference consistency, journal or series fit assessment, formatting against supplied author instructions, cover-letter or proposal editing, and reviewer-response editing when applicable.

The service should not replace the researcher’s intellectual responsibility. Contentxprtz does not guarantee acceptance, publication, Scopus indexing, a particular review outcome, or compliance with a university’s publication rule. Editorial decisions belong to Emerald and the relevant AIM editors.

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Author Decision Checklist Before Proceeding

• I confirmed that my target is Advances in International Management, ISSN 1571-5027, not a similarly named title.
• I checked the current Scopus profile for Source ID 5000158118.
• I confirmed whether my institution accepts a book series/research annual for my purpose.
• I found a current or relevant AIM volume/call and checked its theme.
• My paper makes a clear international-management contribution.
• I have not relied on unverified acceptance-rate, review-time, quartile, or APC claims.
• I will follow the current Emerald/volume instructions rather than a generic template.
• I understand that professional editing can improve readiness but cannot guarantee publication.

Conclusion

Advances in International Management is a specialist Emerald research annual/book series for substantive international-management scholarship. Its scope is broad across management disciplines but specific in intellectual orientation: the international, cross-border, global, regional, or comparative dimension must matter to the research question and contribution.

The supplied Scopus Source ID and confirmed ISSN make the source identifiable, but current indexing status, metrics, calls, submission routes, review arrangements, and fees should be reconfirmed before any author invests heavily in submission preparation. This is especially important when publication eligibility is tied to a university or funder rule.

Contentxprtz can help improve clarity, structure, formatting, references, and publication readiness while preserving author responsibility and research integrity. At Contentxprtz, we don’t just edit; we help ideas reach their fullest potential.