Journal Press India®
I am delighted to launch this new journal, a product of GBS. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning the management area. The journal will strive to combine academic excellence with professional relevance and a strong industry focus. We wish to appeal to the professional, corporate, governmental, non-governmental and academic communities. The purpose of the GBS impact is to fill the gap between the perspective and the approach of the various disciplines focusing on management research, i.e. to become the principal forum for an interdisciplinary dialogue.
The understanding of the society and management has always been hampered by the boundaries academia and the culture of professions have erected around each other. I have previously stressed that “leading practitioners and scholars have always been able to sharpen their analysis and application of management research by a more than superficial understanding of the forces which underlie and determine the society”. The overly strict separation between the professional disciplines and their perspectives has not gone away but this new journal is built on the premise that a multi-disciplinary approach to the management is a much better way to understand research. Our aim is therefore to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue with and between our authors; that requires intelligibility across the borders of the authors’ specialties. To understand the management research, business and its regulatory, political and commercial challenges properly, industry professionals and their advisors need to understand the social framework in which it operates and the forms and enforcement mechanisms for the commercial transaction it employs. Equally, they need to understand the key drivers for the modern business: the market structure (which is currently undergoing a major change), with the concentration of markets and producers.
We under the leadership of Prof.Uday Lawate, the driving force behind the process leading to the GBS Impact, put together an outstanding Editorial Board. We will continue to develop and fine-tune the content to enhance the quality, scope and diversity of this new venture