Advances in Management & Financial Reporting (AMFR) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing theory, evidence, methodology, policy, and practice across management, organizations, accounting, auditing, financial reporting, corporate governance, finance, financial markets and institutions, economics, human resource management, marketing, consumer research, business and entrepreneurship, sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG), responsible business, digital transformation, innovation, and related scholarly fields.
AMFR provides an international scholarly platform for rigorous original research and critical literature synthesis that develop, test, extend, integrate, or evaluate theories, concepts, relationships, institutions, policies, practices, strategies, technologies, and managerial, organizational, accounting, financial, economic, business, or societal phenomena. The journal encourages scholarly contributions that advance understanding of management, financial reporting, corporate accountability, organizational performance, financial decision-making, institutional development, and related areas.
Equal Scope Principle: All scholarly areas listed below constitute the journal's recognized main scholarly scope and have equal standing in editorial scope assessment. Each recognized field may independently establish manuscript relevance through a meaningful scholarly contribution. A manuscript is not required to include both management and financial reporting variables when it makes a substantive contribution to another recognized AMFR field.
Research may investigate an individual scholarly field or examine substantive relationships among several recognized fields. AMFR welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically defensible, ethically conducted, and practically relevant studies from developed, emerging, and developing economies, provided that their findings or synthesis contribute meaningfully to scholarly knowledge.
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, corporate performance measurement, organizational resilience, and long-term value creation.
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.
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, accounting-based performance measurement, and methodological innovations in accounting.
Auditing, Assurance, Internal Control and Taxation includes auditing and assurance, internal and external auditing, audit quality, audit effectiveness, 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, reporting quality, corporate disclosure, earnings quality, earnings management, financial statement analysis, 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.
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, corporate financial policies, 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.
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, financial reporting regulation, and institutional responses to financial and economic disruptions.
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, business economics, 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.
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 financial reporting, 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, automated financial reporting, 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, accounting, reporting, business, governance, or policy developments.
AMFR accepts manuscripts written in English under only two recognized manuscript types: Research Paper and Literature Review Paper.
Research Paper includes original empirical research using quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, experimental, quasi-experimental, archival, econometric, longitudinal, cross-sectional, comparative, panel-data, time-series, computational, case-based, content-analytical, textual, behavioral, structural equation modeling, multivariate, or other defensible original-research designs. The research design, data, analysis, findings, and conclusions must accurately reflect the procedures and evidence actually used.
Literature Review Paper includes rigorous narrative, integrative, systematic, scoping, structured, bibliometric, meta-analytical, theory-oriented, concept-oriented, or other defensible literature-review designs. Reviews should present transparent methods appropriate to the review design and provide meaningful synthesis, theoretical or conceptual insight, critical evaluation, methodological understanding, or a focused future-research agenda.
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.
Methodological Integrity: Authors must accurately identify and report the research or review design actually undertaken. Systematic-review, PRISMA-based, bibliometric, meta-analytical, experimental, or other specialized methodological claims must be supported by the procedures genuinely conducted and the evidence available. Methodological sophistication alone does not guarantee publication.
AMFR welcomes scholarly work that generates meaningful empirical, theoretical, conceptual, methodological, managerial, practical, policy, institutional, financial-reporting, or literature-synthesis contributions within any recognized area of its main scholarly scope.
Empirical, Theoretical and Conceptual Contributions include generating, testing, replicating, extending, integrating, refining, challenging, or critically evaluating evidence, theoretical explanations, concepts, relationships, research models, and analytical frameworks relevant to the journal's scholarly fields.
Methodological and Literature-Synthesis Contributions include developing, adapting, evaluating, or demonstrating analytical, measurement, econometric, financial, accounting, auditing, reporting, management, marketing, behavioral, business, and review methodologies, as well as critically synthesizing literature to identify patterns, scholarly debates, evidence gaps, theoretical developments, methodological issues, and future-research directions.
Managerial, Practical, Policy and Institutional Contributions include evidence-based implications for organizations, managers, entrepreneurs, accounting and finance professionals, auditors, financial institutions, investors, consumers, regulators, policymakers, public institutions, communities, and other relevant decision-makers. Contributions should be proportionate to the evidence, research context, methodology, and limitations.
AMFR welcomes research from private, public, governmental, nonprofit, financial, entrepreneurial, educational, industrial, technological, institutional, and other relevant organizational settings. Research addressing firms, employees, consumers, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, governments, industries, markets, economies, communities, or public institutions may be considered where it contributes substantively to a recognized AMFR field.
Single-country, multi-country, local, regional, national, international, single-industry, single-market, single-company, and single-organization studies may be eligible when they establish a clear scholarly problem and provide defensible theoretical, empirical, methodological, financial, accounting, reporting, economic, managerial, organizational, practical, or policy-relevant insights.
International or multi-country data are not mandatory. Contextually grounded studies should explain how their findings, analysis, or literature synthesis contribute to broader scholarly understanding rather than presenting solely descriptive local or operational information.
The journal serves researchers, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate scholars, management and organizational researchers, accounting and financial-reporting scholars, finance and economics scholars, auditors, corporate governance researchers, human resource management scholars, marketing and consumer researchers, business and entrepreneurship scholars, sustainability and ESG researchers, financial-market and banking professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, SME practitioners, consultants, policymakers, regulators, and other readers interested in its recognized scholarly fields.
Manuscripts should clearly identify the research or review problem, relevant scholarly field, theoretical or conceptual foundation, objective, methodology or review methodology, evidence, analysis or synthesis, findings, interpretation, implications, and substantive contribution. Relevance may be established through one recognized AMFR field without requiring the integration of multiple fields.
Out-of-Scope Research includes studies whose principal questions, analytical foundations, and contributions do not relate substantively to at least one recognized AMFR 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 managerial, organizational, accounting, financial-reporting, financial, economic, human-capital, marketing, business, sustainability, governance, institutional, or policy relevance.
Descriptive reports, consultancy-style accounts, and local operational descriptions that do not establish a scholarly problem, defensible analytical or review framework, and meaningful contribution to knowledge may also be considered unsuitable for publication.
Editorial Screening: Manuscripts that clearly fall outside the stated Aims & Scope, do not conform to one of the two accepted manuscript types, lack adequate scholarly contribution, or fail essential submission and research-integrity requirements may be declined during initial editorial screening without external peer review.
Publication Eligibility: Alignment with the journal's scope does not guarantee acceptance or publication. Every manuscript remains subject to originality, research integrity, appropriate methodology or review methodology, scholarly quality, submission compliance, independent peer review, editorial evaluation, and applicable publication-ethics policies.
The current AMFR Aims & Scope framework applies prospectively to new manuscripts submitted from the official publication of this revised framework. All recognized scholarly areas listed in this framework have equal standing as part of the journal's main scholarly scope.
Valid manuscripts, editorial decisions, previously published articles, volume and issue assignments, publication dates, bibliographic metadata, DOI records, and other historical scholarly records established under earlier policies remain part of the journal's permanent scholarly record and are not retrospectively reclassified, removed, or altered merely to conform to the current framework.
Authors, editors, and reviewers should apply the current framework when assessing new submissions from its effective date onward while respecting valid editorial commitments, decisions, and publication records associated with earlier manuscripts.
Prospective authors should consult the current manuscript requirements, manuscript template, separate Title Page instructions, publication ethics, peer-review guidelines, Article Processing Charge policy, and other applicable journal information before submitting their work.