Recognized Scholarly Fields

• Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy includes microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, monetary economics and policy, fiscal policy, public economics, international economics, economic growth, economic development, economic systems, economic institutions, market structures, industrial economics, institutional economics, behavioral economics, applied economics, econometrics, and economic policy analysis.
• International, Regional and Development Economics includes international trade, regional and urban economics, development economics, regional development, economic transformation, inequality, inclusive development, financial development, productivity, economic competitiveness, institutional development, economic integration, and socioeconomic development.
• Labor, Human Capital and Economic Change includes labor economics, wages, employment, labor markets, workforce development, human-capital economics, skills, employability, labor mobility, technological innovation, digital economic transformation, economic shocks, uncertainty, geopolitical risk, and public-policy responses to economic and institutional change.
• Corporate Finance and Financial Management includes corporate finance, capital structure, financing decisions, dividend policy, working capital management, corporate investment, financial planning, financial performance, financial distress, financial risk management, firm valuation, firm value, financial strategy, and financial decision-making.
• Investment, Asset Pricing and Portfolio Management includes investment decisions, portfolio management, asset pricing, investment performance, alternative investments, derivatives, financial instruments, investment risk, behavioral finance, responsible investment, sustainable investment, green finance, and climate finance.
• Banking, Financial Institutions and Inclusive Finance includes banking, financial intermediation, international finance, foreign exchange markets, financial institutions, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, private equity, SME finance, household and personal finance, financial inclusion, financial services, financial innovation, and financial technology.
• Financial, Management and Public-Sector Accounting includes financial accounting, management accounting, cost and managerial accounting, public-sector accounting, international accounting, financial reporting, accounting standards, accounting regulation, standard setting, accounting information systems, digital accounting, professional accounting practice, and methodological innovations in accounting.
• Auditing, Assurance, Internal Control and Taxation includes auditing and assurance, internal and external auditing, audit quality, internal control, accountability, financial and non-financial assurance, taxation, tax-related reporting, forensic accounting, fraud-related research, governance mechanisms, and accounting-related risk management.
• Corporate Reporting, Governance and Sustainability Accounting includes financial and non-financial reporting, corporate disclosure, reporting quality, corporate governance and accounting outcomes, boards and ownership structures, managerial oversight, social and environmental accounting, sustainability and ESG accounting, integrated reporting, sustainability disclosure, digital reporting, and corporate accountability.
• Capital Markets and Financial Market Behavior includes capital markets, equity markets, fixed-income markets, credit markets, commodity markets, stock prices, securities valuation, financial market development, market efficiency, market anomalies, behavioral inefficiencies, market microstructure, information processing, financial products, financial econometrics, and financial-market performance.
• Financial Systems, Stability and Regulation includes banking systems, financial institutions, financial regulation, financial stability, financial crises, systemic risk, financial-market risk, market uncertainty, financial innovation, digital banking, financial infrastructure, payment systems, international financial markets, and institutional responses to financial and economic disruptions.
• Strategic Management and Organizational Performance includes strategic management, corporate strategy, business strategy, organizational performance, managerial decision-making, organizational capabilities, dynamic capabilities, resource allocation, organizational competitiveness, organizational effectiveness, and organizational resilience.
• Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Development includes organizational behavior, leadership, organizational culture and climate, organizational change, organizational development, organizational learning, knowledge management, innovation management, organizational creativity, empowerment, managerial behavior, responsible leadership, organizational relationships, and cross-cultural management.
• Operations, Quality and Institutional Management includes operations management, performance management, quality management, business process management, public management, nonprofit management, SME management, institutional management, digital transformation, technological innovation, organizational adaptation, business analytics, crisis management, and responses to uncertainty and major organizational disruptions.
• Human Resource Management includes strategic HRM, HR policies and practices, workforce planning, recruitment and selection, talent management, training and employee development, performance appraisal, compensation and rewards, career development, employee retention, employment practices, human resource development, HR information systems, digital HRM, and HR analytics.
• Organizational Behavior and Employee Outcomes includes employee engagement, organizational commitment, work motivation, job satisfaction, employee performance, productivity, workplace behavior, employee well-being, work-life balance, leadership and employee outcomes, organizational culture, employee adaptability, workplace relationships, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Employment, Workforce Transformation and Future of Work includes human capital development, workforce development, employment relationships, employability, workforce analytics, remote and hybrid work, digital skills, technological adaptation, human-AI collaboration, organizational learning, talent development, workforce transformation, changing employment practices, and future workforce capabilities.
• Marketing Management and Market Strategy includes marketing management, marketing strategy, market orientation, market research, branding, brand management, advertising, marketing communication, relationship marketing, pricing strategy, sales, international marketing, business-to-business marketing, retail marketing, omnichannel marketing, and market competitiveness.
• Consumer and Service Research includes consumer behavior, purchasing behavior, purchase intention, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer engagement, customer experience, service marketing, service quality, consumer decision-making, consumer trust, customer relationships, and consumer responses to marketing and organizational strategies.
• Digital Marketing and Consumer Technology includes digital marketing, social media marketing, social commerce, e-commerce, digital marketplaces, online customer experience, influencer marketing, digital advertising, personalization, recommender systems, artificial intelligence in marketing, marketing analytics, sustainable and green marketing, consumer privacy, digital trust, and emerging consumer technologies.
• Business Management and Performance includes business strategy, business models, business performance, business development, international business, business competitiveness, family businesses, small and medium-sized enterprises, institutional business environments, business continuity, business resilience, corporate governance, and responsible business practices.
• Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Development includes entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, startups and new ventures, entrepreneurial finance, SME development, enterprise growth, sustainable entrepreneurship, business opportunities, entrepreneurial capabilities, and entrepreneurial decision-making.
• Innovation and Business Transformation includes business innovation, organizational innovation, innovation capabilities, business-model innovation, digital entrepreneurship, digital business, platform-based business models, SME transformation, technological innovation, knowledge sharing, productivity, digital capabilities, organizational transformation, and responses to supply-chain disruption, economic uncertainty, or major business challenges.
• Corporate Sustainability and ESG includes corporate sustainability, environmental, social and governance practices, ESG performance, ESG reporting and disclosure, sustainability performance, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder relationships, ethical business practices, social sustainability, environmental management, sustainability governance, and responsible management.
• Sustainable Finance, Accounting and Investment includes sustainable finance, responsible investment, green finance, climate finance, sustainable accounting, sustainability reporting, integrated reporting, corporate sustainability disclosure, climate-related business practices, and financial, accounting, governance, or institutional dimensions of sustainability.
• Sustainable Management, Marketing and Development includes green management, green and sustainable marketing, sustainable HRM, green HRM, sustainable supply chains, circular economy, sustainable business models, sustainability innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship, responsible production and consumption, sustainable economic and business systems, sustainable development, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Digital Economy and Financial Technology includes digital economy, financial technology, digital banking, digital payments, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, artificial intelligence in finance and accounting, algorithmic finance, financial analytics, financial inclusion, digital financial markets, and technology-enabled financial services.
• Artificial Intelligence and Digital Business includes artificial intelligence in management, AI-enabled decision-making, generative AI in organizations, automation, algorithmic management, digital platforms, business analytics, big data, digital entrepreneurship, digital transformation, technology adoption, digital capabilities, and technology-driven organizational change.
• Technology, Innovation and Organizational Applications includes digital accounting, digital HRM, digital marketing, information systems, computational business research, technological innovation, digital trust, technology-enabled services, human-technology interaction, workforce technologies, digital productivity, and technology-related financial, economic, managerial, organizational, business, governance, or policy developments.

Scope Eligibility

All fields listed above are recognized as part of AEFS's main scholarly scope and have equal standing in editorial assessment. A manuscript may establish relevance through a substantive contribution to any one recognized field. Combining several fields or introducing an additional economics, finance, or accounting variable is not required.

AEFS welcomes research from developed, emerging, and developing economies, including local, national, international, comparative, and cross-cultural studies when the research question, evidence, and contribution have broader scholarly relevance.

The current harmonized AEFS Aims & Scope framework applies prospectively from 25 September 2026. Valid manuscripts, editorial decisions, published articles, issue assignments, DOI records, and other historical scholarly records created under earlier journal policies remain part of the permanent journal record and are not retrospectively reclassified merely to conform to the current framework.

Scholarly Contribution

AEFS accepts manuscripts written in English under only two recognized manuscript types: Research Paper and Literature Review Paper.

Manuscript-Type Principle: Research methods, analytical techniques, theoretical or conceptual contributions, and review approaches do not constitute separate manuscript types. Conceptual Papers are not accepted as a separate category. Bibliometric and mapping-based reviews should provide substantive scholarly synthesis rather than descriptive mapping alone.

Out-of-Scope Research includes studies whose principal questions, analytical foundations, and contributions do not relate substantively to at least one recognized AEFS field. Purely technical engineering, computer-science, clinical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, natural-science, agricultural-production, or educational-pedagogy studies may fall outside scope when they lack meaningful economic, financial, accounting, managerial, organizational, human-capital, marketing, business, sustainability, governance, institutional, or policy relevance.

Submissions should identify a meaningful scholarly problem or knowledge gap, use an appropriate and defensible methodology, and support conclusions with credible research evidence or critical literature synthesis.

Scope relevance does not guarantee acceptance. Manuscripts may be declined if originality, scholarly contribution, methodological rigor, or research integrity is insufficient.

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