Central Asia Business Journal

About the journal

Aims and Scope: The Central Asia Business Journal promotes understanding of business issues (broadly defined) in the region, which includes the post-Soviet “stans” (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan) as well as the post-Soviet states of the trans-Caucasus area (including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).

Readers include scholars, students, and business executives with an interest in business issues of Central Asia, such as foreign direct investment, corruption, and political forces that influence business in the region.  Owned, managed, and financed by KIMEP University, the Journal is free to all readers.

The ISSN is 2073-5901 for the print version and 1991-0002 for the electronic version as well as for print on demand.  The Journal is primarily an electronic publication.

Types of articles considered.  Authors may submit research papers, case studies, and book reviews. We also invite students’ papers. All submissions must be in English.

The journal is open to all methodologies, but it especially welcomes papers that are analytically strong and that relate to the real world.  We prefer papers with new findings but also publish surveys. All papers should discuss applications to Central Asia.

The journal’s interests include:

• Behavioral economics
• Business cycles and economic development
• Business law
• Corporate governance Emerging markets
• Financial and capital markets and industries
• Human resources management
• Institutional economics
• International accounting standards and taxation
• International business and globalization
• Leadership
• Logistics and supply chain management
• Management information systems
• Marketing strategies and effectiveness
• Market integration and segmentation
• Market structure and efficiency
• Mathematical economics
• Microfinance and development
• Multinational enterprises and business strategy
• Natural resources and their internationalization
• Nongovernmental organizations and entrepreneurs
• Political economy
• Risk and uncertainty
• Statistical economics
• Tourism and the hospitality business

We also welcome contributions to three sections of the journal:

Perspectives. This features nontechnical surveys of issues in Central Asian business that would interest scholars and policymakers. An example is a survey of theoretical and empirical papers about customs unions. A typical length is 4,000 to 6,000 words. Please propose your topic to the managing editor before beginning work.

Book reviews. Reviews should summarize and evaluate books about Central Asian business or about business issues that interest the region. Most reviews will concern recent books, but the journal may also publish a retrospective essay about well- known titles in a given field. A typical length for a review is 1,500 to 2,500 words. Please write the managing editor about the book that you propose to review.

Symposium. This consists of several commentaries on a recent issue of interest—for example, the August 2015 float of the tenge. A typical commentary may run 1,500 to 2,500 words. Usually, the journal commissions commentaries, but you may propose a symposium to the managing editor.

Basic requirements for submissions.  We expect quality articles, which may be submitted by anyone.  We do not consider more than two submissions at a time from one author, and we do not consider submissions that have been published elsewhere. Neither do we consider submissions that are already under consideration by other publications. The Journal does not charge submission fees.

Evaluation of articles.  All submissions are evaluated by an expert who is not on the Journal’s editorial staff, under a double-blind system: That is, the reviewer does not know who the submitter is, and the submitter does not know who the reviewer is. We ask the reviewer to recommend whether to accept, reject, or call for revision of the submission; and to discuss in some detail the changes that the reviewer finds necessary.  If we decide to consider a revision of the submission, then we ask the authors for a letter, accompanying the revision, that responds to each of the reviewer’s points.

Research misconduct.  The journal rejects plagiarized submissions. “Plagiarism” means that the submission has copied word-for-word a sentence or more of text without quotation marks; or has made trivial changes in the wording of longer passages copied from elsewhere without attribution.  In general, the author should attribute fully material drawn from elsewhere, with a citation in the main text and a reference in the references section.

In addition to plagiarism, “research misconduct” may include falsification of data and refusal to justify statistical estimates, as well as other violations of ethics.  Empirical researchers should provide access for readers to their databases or, if the data are widely available, tell readers where they can find them.  The journal will investigate any allegation of research misconduct concerning one of its published articles.

Conflicts of interest.  In submitting an article, the author should identify any potential conflict of interest, such as an article that favorably treats a funder of the research.  The author should also list, in her submission package, the amount and source of a fund that financed the research.

Complaints and appeals.  These will be assigned to an appropriate member of the editorial board. CABJ authors will have an opportunity to respond to complaints about their research.

Post-publication discussions and corrections.  In their journal articles, authors must provide a permanent email-address at which readers can reach them.  The journal corrects issues and re-posts the issues to the journal’s Web page. The revised issue notifies readers about the corrections.

Ethical oversight.  The editorial board of the journal oversees ethics.

Advertisements.  The Journal welcomes ads that relate to Central Asian business and that do not compromise the Journal’s objectivity in research.  The editor decides which ads to accept and how to present them.  They would be displayed in a section at the end of the issue; they would not be linked to content or to reader behavior.

Revenue sources.  The CABJ does not charge fees to authors or subscribers; neither does it charge fees for reprints. The Journal is entirely financed by KIMEP University.

Direct marketing.  The CABJ markets in a way that is consistent with its main aim of covering issues relevant to business in Central Asia.  Marketing may include soliciting papers.

Issues concerning copyrights and intellectual property.  The CABJ is an open access journal. All articles are free to users, who can use, reuse or build upon material, provided that they attribute it appropriately. The author holds the copyright after publication in the CABJ. In accordance with the Directory of Open Access Journals, we state that users may “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles…without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.”

History.  The Central Asia Business Journal began publishing in 2000, when it was titled the Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research.  Its title changed to the Central Asia Business Journal in 2006.  The journal appears quarterly, in both paper (on demand) and electronic formats. The publisher is KIMEP University, 4 Abai Prospekt, Almaty, Kazakhstan 050010.

Archive.  Journal articles and issues are being archived at Portico (portico.org).

Contact information.   If you have questions, please write to the Central Asia Business Journal, Dr. Monowar Mahmood, managing editor, 4 Abai Prospekt, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan 050010. Send email to monowar@kimep.kz or cabj@kimep.kz.

Professor of Management at Bang College of Business, KIMEP University. He completed Ph.D. in Management Science from Manchester Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, & AMBA accredited), University of Manchester, UK; MA in Human Resource Management from University of Leeds (AACSB, EQUIS, & AMBA accredited), UK; MBA from Saint Mary’s University (AACSB, EQUIS, & AMBA accredited), Canada.

Dr. Mahmood has numerous peer reviewed articles and 5 book chapters published by different international publishers. His articles published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, Education + Training, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Emerging Markets and other ranked journals. Book chapters are published by Routledge, UK; Springer, UK; and Business Expert Press, USA.

Editorial board members.

Charles Cadwell, JD, Urban Institute, Washington, D. C.

Dr. Nygmet Ibadildin, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Rustam Atadjanov, Dr.iur., KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dr. Gavin Kretschmar, EADA Business School, Barcelona

Joseph Luke, JD, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dr. Nadeem Naqvi, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dr. Charles Noble, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

Dr. Gerald Pech, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Bakytgul Tundikbayeva, MBA, CAE, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dr. Vivienne Westbrook, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Managing editor: Dr. Monowar Mahmood, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan