Welcome to IJIRMS

International Journal of Innovative Research in Management Studies (IJIRMS) is a double blind peer reviewed refereed monthly journal that publishes the research papers, case studies, book reviews, conceptual, empirical and exploratory papers from Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Systems, Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Commerce, Economics, Sociology, Banking, Insurance, Mutual Funds, Library Science, Intellectual Property Rights, Statistics, Business Laws, Production, Education Management, Hospital Management, Total Quality Management, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, SHGs, and any other management topics.

From Editor’s Desk

The objective of the Journal is to disseminate knowledge, which ensures good practice of professional management and its focal point is on research and reflections relevant to academicians and practicing managers for sustainable business.
The Impact Factor of our International Journal of Innovative Research in Management Studies (IJIRMS) is 0.7261, and Thomson Reuters Researcher ID is J-5005-2016. All submitted papers will be reviewed based on their quality by the Editorial Board and Reviewers.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Last Date for Manuscript Submission : There is no deadline for submission
Acceptance Notification: 5 to 10 days after manuscript submission.
Please submit your papers to editor@ijirms.com (or) Submit your Article ONLINE. Articles will be published in Current Issue.
Online copy will available within two days after completing the formalities.

Author Guidelines

NOTE:
a) The manuscript should be typed in 12 point - Times New Roman Fonts English with a one and half space and single column with 1 Margin on a Standard A4 size Paper. The Page numbers should be at the center of every page. All headings & sub headings must be in bold letters.
b) The whole manuscript has to be in ONE MS WORD FILE only, which will start from the covering letter, inside the manuscript.
c) Abstract alone will not be considered for review and the author is required to submit the complete manuscript in the first instance.
d) The journal gives acknowledgement w.r.t. the receipt of every email within twenty four hours and in case of non-receipt of acknowledgment from the journal, w.r.t. the submission of manuscript, within two days of submission, the corresponding author is required to demand for the same by sending a separate mail to the journal.
e) The author (s) name or details should not appear anywhere on the body of the manuscript, except the covering letter and the cover page of the manuscript, in the manner as mentioned in the guidelines.
MANUSCRIPT TITLE:
The title of the paper should be bold typed, centred and fully capitalized.
AUTHOR NAME (S) & AFFILIATIONS:
Author (s) Name, Designation, Affiliation(s), Address, Mobile/Landline Number(s), and Email address should be given underneath the title.
ABSTRACT:
The abstract should not be more than 200-300 words. The abstract must be informative and explain the background, aims, methods, results & conclusion in a Single Paragraph.
KEYWORDS:
Abstract must be followed by a list of keywords, subject to the maximum of five. These should be arranged in alphabetic order separated by commas and full stop at the end. All words of the keywords, including the first one should be in small letters, except special words e.g. name of the Countries, abbreviations.
MANUSCRIPT:
Manuscript must be in English Language and prepared on a standard A4 size paper. It should be free from any errors i.e. grammatical, spelling or punctuation. It must be thoroughly edited at your end.
HEADINGS:
All the headings must be bold-faced, aligned left and fully capitalized. Leave a blank line before each heading.
SUB-HEADINGS:
All the sub-headings must be bold-faced, aligned left and fully capitalized.
MAIN TEXT :
THE MAIN TEXT SHOULD FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING FORMAT:
INTRODUCTION
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY
NEED FOR THE STUDY / STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
HYPOTHESIS
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONS (RESULTS AND DISCUSSION)
FINDINGS OF THE STUDY
SUGGESTIONS / RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE STUDY
CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY / REFERENCES
THE MAIN PAPER (MANUSCRIPTS) SHOULD NOT EXCEED MORE THAN 3,000
TO 5,000 WORDS (INCLUDING GRAPHS AND CHARTS)
FIGURES & TABLES:
These should be simple, crystal clear, centered, separately numbered & self-explained, and titles must be above the table/figure. Sources of data should be mentioned below the table/figure. It should be ensured that the tables/figures are referred to from the main text.
REFERENCES:
The list of all references should be alphabetically arranged. The author (s) should mention only the actually utilized references in the preparation of manuscript.

Each manuscript will initially be evaluated by the Chief Editor / Editors, who may make use of appropriate software to examine the plagiarism.
The manuscripts clearing the plagiarism test will be forwarded to two referees for blind peer review, each of whom will make a recommendation to publish the article in its present form / modify / reject. During this period referees shall treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information.
The review period varies from a day to a week (Maximum fifteen days in extra ordinary situations).
The Chief Editor / Editor will intimate the review report of acceptance / acceptance with
modification / rejection to the author’s concerned on the same day of the receipt of the same.

International Journal of Innovative Research in Management Studies (IJIRMS) is a monthly double-blind peer reviewed refereed open access International e-Journals, which provides instant, worldwide and barrier-free access to the full-text of all published manuscripts to all interested readers in the best interests of the research community.
IJIRMS Journal does not sell published manuscripts and offer all published manuscripts free of cost to all members, researchers, libraries, organizations, companies and universities all around the world. Open access allows the research community to view, download, print, and redistribute any manuscript without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model. Authors may also use their published articles on their own or institution's website. Many authors in a variety of fields have begun to realize the benefit that open access publishing can provide in terms of increasing the impact of their work, because there is no charge at all to access its research content.
The publication costs of a manuscript are paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institutions.
As costs are involved at every stage of the publication process, from manuscript handling form submission to publication, peer-review, copy editing, typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, Electronic composition and production, hosting the final article on dedicated servers, electronic archiving, server and website update and maintenance, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination and administrative and overheads, and also to maintain the quality standards it has been decided to collect a nominal publication fee. The author is asked to pay manuscript publication fee.
The publication fee is
For Indian authors working / studying in India: Rs. 1,000/- (1000 INR) – For Three Authors.
For Overseas authors: US $ 50 (Fifty U.S. Dollars) – For Three Authors.
Payable for manuscript ACCEPTED for publication irrespective of the number of authors in the same, which will be billed to the corresponding author only. The amount of fee charged by the journal is lower than most of the e-journals. The publication fee must be paid prior to its publication. Colour figures will not be charged extra. The manuscript accepted for publication will be processed further towards publication after the author pays the publication fee.
Failure to pay the Publication fee or any other due fee makes a manuscript liable to be placed back under access control, losing its open access status.