Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management

Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management is a monthly, double-blind peer-reviewed research journal published in New Delhi by Associated Management Consultants Private Limited. In continuous publication since 2008 and carrying ISSN 0975-2854, it publishes papers across virtually every functional area of management, with a focus on research and reflections relevant to academicians and practising managers in India and other emerging economies. Indexed in Scopus and included in the UGC-CARE List, Prabandhan has become one of the most frequently appearing Indian management journals — twelve issues a year — and a common destination for management faculty and doctoral scholars who need a credible, refereed outlet that appears on a monthly cycle rather than a quarterly one.

Published in New Delhi Since 2008

The journal's publisher, Associated Management Consultants Private Limited, is based at Y-21, Hauz Khas, in New Delhi, and Prabandhan has been published from the capital since 2008. Its early issues appeared in late 2008 — individual articles from the November–December 2008 period survive in digital magazine archives, including studies of employee stress among Indian executives and of competency models in management. The same New Delhi publisher is responsible for a family of related research titles, including the Indian Journal of Marketing, in publication since 1968, the Indian Journal of Finance, and the Arthshastra Indian Journal of Economics and Research, making Prabandhan the management flagship of a stable of Indian social-science journals produced from a single editorial house. That stablemate structure gives the journal shared production, subscription and indexing infrastructure unusual for an independent Indian title.

A Monthly, Double-Blind Peer-Reviewed Journal

Frequency is one of Prabandhan's defining features. Where most Indian management journals are quarterly, Prabandhan appears monthly, producing twelve issues a year and a correspondingly large volume of published research. Every contribution is reviewed under a double-blind system in which two or more referees assess the work without knowing the author's identity, and authors are correspondingly instructed to keep their names and affiliations only on a separate cover page, so that nothing in the manuscript body identifies them. Manuscripts are expected to be no more than 6,500 words including references, presented in a standard academic format with an abstract, keywords and JEL classification. The journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), aligning its handling of submissions with international publication-ethics standards.

Scope: Management in All Its Functional Areas

Few Indian journals claim a scope as wide as Prabandhan's. Its published list of areas runs to more than twenty fields: human resource management; organisational behaviour and organisational management; international business; knowledge management; environmental management; data analysis and decision making; technology and operations management; strategic decision making; negotiations and competitive decision making; ethics in management; corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship and innovation; public management; rural management; general management; hotel management; intellectual property rights; education management; communication management; lifecycle management; spiritual management; tourism management; hospitality management; leisure management; inventory management; waste management; and hospital management. Its aims statements add areas such as health care administration, non-profit organisations, operations research and statistics, public administration and supply chain management.

Objective and Readership

The journal states its objective plainly: to disseminate knowledge which ensures good practice of professional management, with its focal point on research and reflections relevant to academicians and practising managers. It reports a pan-India reach together with a discernible international subscriber and readership base. That dual audience shapes what Prabandhan publishes. Alongside conventional empirical papers, it welcomes work on distinctly Indian and emerging-economy management settings — rural management, spiritual management, public management and small-enterprise contexts that receive less attention in Western journals. For the large community of faculty in India's university departments and standalone management institutes, the journal offers a refereed venue whose subject boundaries are wide enough to accommodate interdisciplinary work that specialist journals might turn away for fit rather than quality.

Indexing in Scopus and the UGC-CARE List

Prabandhan is indexed in Scopus, where it has been placed in the third quartile for business, management and accounting, with a SCImago Journal Rank recorded at 0.259 and an h-index of 17 in recent profiles; Google Scholar has recorded an h5-index of 14 with upwards of 5,000 citations to the journal. It is included in the UGC-CARE List of journals, Group II — the category for journals indexed in globally recognised databases — and is also indexed on Index Copernicus and the i-Scholar digital library. For Indian academics, whose career progression depends heavily on publication in UGC-CARE and Scopus-listed journals, these listings are the journal's principal credential, and they explain much of the steady flow of submissions a monthly title requires to fill twelve issues a year.

Editorial Leadership and Publishing Model

The journal's informatics page names Professor (Dr.) Teena Bagga as Editor-in-Chief and Priyanka Gilani as Editorial Director, with Associated Management Consultants Private Limited as publisher. The journal operates an article processing charge model under which charges are payable only after a manuscript has been accepted following double-blind peer review, with no submission charges; the stated charge is INR 23,000 for Indian authors and USD 350 for international authors, covering services that include formatting in XML, PDF and HTML, proofing with final author approval, DOI assignment and CrossRef registration, digital hosting, archiving and metadata submission to indexing databases. The policy includes full or partial waivers in special cases for authors, research scholars, early-career researchers and authors from public academic institutions, as well as discounts for editorial board members and regular reviewers.

Author Guidelines and the Review Process

Prabandhan's guidelines for authors are detailed and conventional in the best sense. Manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word, double spaced, with one-inch margins in Times New Roman, size 12, and must mention a valid email address. The cover page carries the author's name, designation, full institutional address and email or ORCID identifier, while the paper itself begins on the second page with the title, abstract, keywords and JEL classification, with no author identification anywhere else, because the review process is blinded. These mechanical requirements — anonymity, word limits, structured abstracts — are the everyday machinery of credible peer review, and their explicit publication signals to prospective authors, especially first-time researchers, exactly how the journal expects scholarship to be presented.

Place in Indian Management Publishing

Prabandhan belongs to a generation of Indian journals that professionalised in the 2000s, as management education expanded rapidly and the University Grants Commission tightened expectations for faculty publication. A monthly, Scopus-indexed, UGC-CARE-listed journal from an established New Delhi publisher answered a real institutional need: thousands of management teachers and doctoral candidates required refereed outlets, and quarterly institute journals alone could not absorb the volume. Prabandhan's breadth is its strategy — by covering everything from marketing and finance-adjacent decision research to tourism, hospitality, education and hospital management, it serves the many specialised departments that now teach management in India, while its monthly rhythm keeps waiting times shorter than those of slower-moving titles.

Digital Presence and Access

The journal is published through its own website at indianjournalofmanagement.com, where author guidelines, editorial information and article processing policies are openly posted, and articles carry digital object identifiers registered with CrossRef for persistent linking. Issues have also been distributed through digital magazine platforms, where archives of early volumes remain readable. Metadata submission to Scopus and other indexing services, inclusion in library catalogues across Indian universities — central university libraries list the title in their journal holdings with its full scope statement — and its presence in journal-ranking databases all extend the journal's visibility beyond its subscriber base. In practical terms, a paper published in Prabandhan is discoverable through the standard scholarly search routes used by Indian researchers.

Prabandhan Today

Today Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management continues as a monthly English-language journal from Hauz Khas, New Delhi, in its eighteenth year of publication. It remains double-blind peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed and UGC-CARE listed, under an editor-in-chief and editorial director named on its site, with a transparent post-acceptance charging policy and COPE-aligned ethics commitments. Its significance in the Indian magazine landscape is not that of a newsstand title but of scholarly infrastructure: month after month, it carries new Indian management research into the indexed record, serving the academicians and practising managers its objective statement names. For readers mapping India's management journals, Prabandhan is one of the essential New Delhi titles — prolific, broad in scope, and firmly embedded in the country's academic reward system.