About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management)is a quarterly journal aimed to the academic community. Being peer-reviewed by double blind process,seeks to contribute to the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge in the financial and administrative disciplines. This journal publishes original theoretical or applied research (No case studies, descriptive and exploratory) in Spanish and English on the following subjects:

• Organization Management
• Production Management and Operations
• Human Resources Management
• Management of Information Technology
• Accounting and Auditing
• Management and Leadership
• Business Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Environment
• Finance
• Operations Research
• Innovation and Technological Change in Organizations
• Marketing
• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Planning and Business Strategies
• Management Theory
• Financial Theory
• Business Decisions

Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management) also receives research papers on related areas to the above mentioned.

Peer Review Process

Receipt of items does not imply an obligation to publish them. The Editor is responsible for selecting those that merit publication and it is based on the traditional peer-review system: at least two experts in the field, preferably having relevant published works in the area, shall give their votes favorable before publication from previously established criteria evaluation. After receiving the assessment, the Editor will decide on the publication of the article, which may well be: turning down the article, in which case it shall inform the author the reasons for not publishing it in its current form. -Accept Article unchanged. -Accept Article with slight modifications. -Accept Article with important modifications. If modifications are required, the author will receive evaluations from peers, to incorporate its recommendations. If major changes are required, the item will be sent back for review by the same evaluators. Once the Editor receives the final version of the article, will make a final decision on publication.

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Accounting and Management provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public, which encourages greater global exchange of knowledge and prevents obsolescence of knowledge. However, each author may make the file of their work on their own initiative through institutional, collective and thematic repositories. Thanks to The Journal of Accounting and Management supports open access initiatives.

Best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing

Accounting and Administration actively combat plagiarism and fraudulent practices publication. To do this, it presents the declaration of editorial ethics that is based on the principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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Journal History

The journal Accounting & Management was born in 1954 under the name of Contabilidad y Administración and in 1956 it acquired its current name. In 2004 its digital version appeared and it consolidated as a peer-reviewed journal. In 2008 it entered the Conacyt journal index (today Conahcyt) and in 2014 it was included in Elsevier's Scopus. In 2016 it appears in the SJR index positioning itself in the Q4 quartile in 2023.