About مطالعات نوین در مدیریت و سازمان

مطالعات نوین در مدیریت و سازمان — Journal of Modern Studies in Management and Organization (JMSMO)

The journal recorded in this directory under the Persian title مطالعات نوین در مدیریت و سازمان is the Journal of Modern Studies in Management and Organization, abbreviated JMSMO, published on its own site at jmsmo.ir with the electronic ISSN 3092-6920. That ISSN is printed on its articles, in the form eISSN 3092-6920, together with DOIs in the prefix 10.22034/jmsmo, and it is the identity anchor for this profile. The English title is the translation the journal itself uses in its article citations — for example, a 2026 article is cited in English as appearing in the Journal of Modern Studies in Management and Organization, volume 3, number 1, with the same DOI prefix and the same eISSN — so the Persian title in this directory and the English title on the journal's articles are one and the same publication, not two journals. The publisher recorded in this directory is the Research Center for Resource Management Studies and Knowledge-Based Business; the journal's English-language homepage presents the title, its policies and its submission routes without naming a separate commercial publisher, which is consistent with a research-centre journal rather than a large publishing house.

On its homepage the journal describes itself as an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing scholarly research and academic dialogue in management and organization studies, publishing original research articles, review papers, analytical studies and conceptual contributions that address contemporary challenges in management, organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, marketing and related fields. It states that it follows the principles and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), that all submitted manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process, and that accepted articles receive a DOI. Its homepage headline summarises the model in a single line: double-blind peer review, DOI, CC BY 4.0, quarterly. Articles carry a publisher's note that JMSMO remains neutral regarding jurisdictional claims in published material and institutional affiliations, and a copyright line stating that authors retain copyright and full publishing rights, with the article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Quick facts

A young journal, and how to judge one fairly

JMSMO is a new journal. Its second volume appeared in 2025 and its third in 2026, with article citations that place volume 2, issue 3 in Autumn 1404 of the Persian calendar and volume 3, issues 1 and 2 in spring 1405. A quarterly schedule across those volumes is visible in the record itself: issues follow the seasons, and individual articles carry received, revised and publication information in their PDFs as well as a DOI, an English citation block and a Persian text. For a directory profile, the honest description is therefore neither inflated nor dismissive. This is an early-stage, openly accessible management journal with a defined scope, a stated ethics framework, a double-blind process, DOI registration and a no-charge statement on its homepage. It does not yet have the long archive, the established indexing record or the citation history of the older Iranian management journals published by large universities, and no impact factor, quartile or Scopus or Web of Science listing was verified for it in the sources consulted for this profile. Authors and readers should hold both halves of that description at once.

There is a specific reason a journal like this matters in the Iranian research system. Management and organization studies in Iran produce a large volume of empirical work on Iranian firms, banks, hospitals, public organisations and industrial zones — work that is often locally commissioned, locally meaningful and written in Persian. Without journals willing to publish it with proper review, DOIs and English abstracts, much of it would remain in institutional reports and conference volumes where other researchers cannot find or cite it. JMSMO's published record shows exactly that kind of work being brought into the citable literature, with English citation blocks that make a Persian article discoverable to a reader who does not read Persian.

Aims and scope, area by area

The journal's aims and scope page lists the areas it covers, while noting the list is not exhaustive: organizational behavior; human resource management; strategic management; marketing and consumer behavior; leadership and innovation; entrepreneurship; organizational theory and change; and digital transformation and emerging technologies. It says it welcomes high-quality theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary research, and that it encourages work providing meaningful theoretical contributions and practical implications for organizations and society. The published articles map onto that list closely, which is a good sign that the stated scope and the editorial practice agree.

Organizational behavior and human resource management

This is the journal's centre of gravity. Published work includes a meta-synthesis identifying the variables that affect employee job satisfaction and presenting a model from them; a study of the association between organizational intelligence, organizational learning and employee productivity in petrochemical firms in the South Pars industrial zone; a meta-synthesis developing a human resource management model based on health-sector indicators, framed by the resource-based view and addressed to healthcare organizations; and a thematic analysis, with prioritisation of strategies, offering a practical roadmap for reducing the destructive effects of favouritism in organizations — nepotism, cronyism and related practices — in which meritocracy, conflict-of-interest management, transparency and reduced discretionary authority are placed at the centre of reform, supported by ethical leadership, oversight, reporting and technology. Manuscripts in this area should define their constructs in both Persian and English terminology where ambiguity is possible, report instruments and samples fully, and, for meta-synthesis work, report search sources, inclusion criteria and coding steps so that the synthesis can be audited.

Strategic management, leadership and organizational theory

Strategic and theoretical contributions are welcomed as original research, analytical studies and conceptual papers. The journal's framing asks for theoretical grounding plus practical implication, so a purely descriptive account of a single firm's strategy is a weaker submission than one that uses the case to test, extend or challenge an organisational theory, or that derives a model other managers can apply. Leadership and innovation work should likewise identify the leadership construct being studied — ethical, transformational, or another defined form — rather than using leadership as a general term of praise.

Marketing, entrepreneurship and digital transformation

Marketing and consumer behavior, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation and emerging technologies complete the named scope. These are areas where Iranian empirical material can be especially valuable, because platform use, consumer markets, sanctions-era business adaptation and public-sector digitalisation in Iran differ in instructive ways from the settings that dominate the English-language literature. Authors should nonetheless write for a reader outside Iran: explain institutions, regulations and market structures that an international reader cannot be assumed to know, and give English abstracts that carry the research question, method, sample and findings, not merely a general statement of importance.

Finance and banking, where the organization is the subject

The archive also shows the journal publishing work that sits at the edge of management and finance when the organisational and governance question is central: a study of directed loans and credit-portfolio rearrangement as deviant lending behaviour of Iranian banks, connecting lending deviation, capital adequacy, banking imbalance and hidden fiscal policy; and a study of the role of probability distributions in the performance of value at risk and expected drawdown. Such papers fit because the journal's question is how organizations behave and are governed. A purely technical financial-econometrics manuscript with no organisational or managerial implication would be a poorer fit, and its author should consider a finance journal first.

Editorial policies, ethics and peer review

The homepage states that JMSMO follows internationally recognised standards of scholarly publishing, including the principles and guidelines of COPE, and that all submitted manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process. It invites collaboration in terms that reveal how a young journal builds its infrastructure: researchers are invited to join the editorial board and to become reviewers, with routes provided on the site for both, alongside manuscript guidelines, a manuscript-submission route and a certificate-verification facility for certificates issued by the journal. No individual editor-in-chief is named in the homepage material consulted for this profile, so none is stated here; authors should check the journal site's current editorial pages for the responsible editors before submitting, and should treat any name offered by a third party with caution until it matches the site.

Double-blind review in a small national field deserves a practical note. Iranian management research is a close community, and authors help the process by anonymising their manuscripts thoroughly: removing author names and affiliations from the file, writing self-citations in the third person, and removing identifying acknowledgements and file metadata. Reviewers, in turn, are asked by the COPE framework the journal invokes to declare conflicts and to judge the manuscript rather than guess at its authors. Authors who follow the anonymisation steps carefully make it possible for the journal to deliver the process it promises.

Open access, licensing and charges

The journal is open access under CC BY 4.0, and its article PDFs state the position in full: the authors retain copyright and full publishing rights, and the article is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Readers may therefore read, share and adapt the work with attribution, and authors do not surrender their rights in order to publish. The homepage's list of reasons to publish includes, as its final item, that there are no article processing charges at present. That wording — at present — is the journal's own, and it is reproduced here exactly in spirit: it is a current statement, not a permanent guarantee, and authors should re-confirm it on the homepage at the moment of submission. A journal that charges nothing, assigns DOIs and publishes quarterly is, by implication, supported by its research centre rather than by author fees, which is one more reason to confirm the current position before relying on it.

Other benefits the homepage claims for authors are regular quarterly publication, a qualified editorial board and expert peer-review network, transparent publication ethics and editorial policies, DOI assignment for published articles, and global accessibility and visibility of research findings. Those are the journal's own claims about itself, and this profile reports them as such; the verifiable parts — quarterly issues in 2025 and 2026, DOIs in the 10.22034/jmsmo prefix, CC BY 4.0 lines on articles, English citation blocks — were visible in the articles consulted.

Indexing and metrics

No listing in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ or a comparable international directory, and no impact factor, CiteScore or quartile, was verified for JMSMO from the sources consulted for this profile, and this directory's record shows no quartile either. OpenAlex, used only as a secondary source, returned a record under ISSN 3092-6920 with no works counted at the time of checking, which for a journal whose articles are in Persian and whose DOIs are newly registered is better read as a sign of how recently the title entered international metadata flows than as a measure of its output; the output itself is visible on the journal's own site. Authors who need a specific index for graduation, promotion or funding rules in Iran should check the current Iranian national journal lists and their own university's rules, in Persian, and confirm this title's status there directly, rather than relying on an English-language directory profile. National standing and international indexing are different questions, and only the relevant authority can answer the one that applies to a given author.

How to submit

The journal provides manuscript guidelines and a submission route on its own site, and invites original research articles, review articles, analytical studies and conceptual papers that are original and theoretically grounded and that address emerging issues and contemporary challenges in management and organization. A well-prepared submission will give a Persian manuscript with a complete and informative English title, abstract and keywords, because that English block is how the article will be found and cited internationally; will state its method, population, sample, instruments and analysis in reproducible detail; will follow the journal's formatting guidelines and reference style; and will include ethics, conflict-of-interest and funding information where the guidelines require it. Because the journal is quarterly, authors should also plan around issue timing and should not promise a publication date elsewhere until they hold a formal acceptance.

Who this journal suits — and who it may not

JMSMO is likely to suit management and organization researchers — particularly those working on Iranian organizations, human resources, organizational behavior, health-sector management, banking governance, petrochemical and industrial organizations, and public and knowledge-based businesses — who want a peer-reviewed, open-access, no-charge-at-present outlet that publishes in Persian with proper DOIs and English citation information, and that explicitly welcomes theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary work with practical implications. It may suit early-career researchers building a citable record in their own research system. It is less likely to suit authors who require a verified international index or metric for a specific rule, authors who need to publish in English in an established international management journal, or authors whose work has no organizational or managerial question at its centre. Read on its own stated terms, it is a young research-centre journal doing the basic things properly — defined scope, double-blind review, COPE principles, DOIs, open access, retained author copyright — and its articles should be judged, individually, on their methods and evidence.

Verification checklist

Before citing or submitting, check: the eISSN is 3092-6920; the DOI begins 10.22034/jmsmo; the site is jmsmo.ir; the licence line on the article is CC BY 4.0 with authors retaining copyright; the citation gives volume, issue, season and year in both calendars where the journal provides them; and the no-charge statement still appears on the homepage at the time you submit. The Persian title and the English title refer to the same journal; a citation in either language, carrying that ISSN or DOI prefix, is a citation to this title, and a journal with a similar English name but a different ISSN is a different publication.

Reading JMSMO as evidence, and the two calendars

For a researcher outside Iran, JMSMO's value is most concrete as evidence about Iranian organizations studied from inside: how petrochemical firms in a major industrial zone relate organizational intelligence and learning to employee productivity, how Iranian banks' directed lending rearranges credit portfolios, which variables Iranian meta-syntheses find behind employee job satisfaction, what a health-sector human resource model built from Iranian and international literature looks like, and how favouritism inside organizations might be reduced by meritocratic and transparency reforms. Those are questions on which Persian-language empirical work is often the primary source, and the journal's English citation blocks — English title, English abstract, romanised author names, DOI and page range — are what make that source usable in an international literature review. A reader who does not read Persian can still identify, cite and, with translation, appraise an article from that block, and should cite the English citation form the journal itself supplies rather than inventing a translation of the title.

Dates need care. The journal's articles are dated in the Persian calendar as well as by volume: volume 2, issue 3 is Autumn 1404, and volume 3 appears in 2026, with its first issue in Spring 1405 in one article's Persian citation and a 2026 date in its English citation. A bibliography should reproduce the date as the journal gives it, in the citation form being used, and should not silently convert a Persian year into a Gregorian year, because 1404 spans parts of two Gregorian years and a converted date can shift an article into the wrong year. Citing volume, issue and DOI together avoids the problem entirely, since the DOI resolves to the journal's own record whatever calendar the reader works in. That discipline — ISSN, DOI, volume and issue, date as printed — is the same discipline this profile has applied to every title in its batch, and it is what allows a young journal's record to be trusted and built upon.