International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS)

Submit a Paper to the International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS)

Editor-in-Chief: Saeed Tabar (Ball State University, USA)
Published Continuous Volume. Est. 2010.

The vast amount of information that must be considered to solve inherently ill-structured and complex strategic problems creates a need for tools and techniques to help decision makers recognize the complexity of this process and develop a rational model for strategy evaluation. The International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) is a double-blind refereed journal whose focus is to promote the infusion of strategic decision-making with the analytical methods. IJSDS distinguishes itself as a business journal with an explicit focus on analytical strategic decision-making. The journal provides a publication vehicle for theoretical and empirical research as well as real-world applications and case studies. Papers published in IJSDS should not only meet high standards of research rigor and originality in decision sciences, but also embrace strategic decision-making.

ISSN: 1947-8569|EISSN: 1947-8577|DOI: 10.4018/IJSDS
Submit a Manuscript to IJSDS
The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage, and the guidelines for submission to IJSDS.

Mission

The principal objective of the International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) is to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, practicing managers, academic and research institutions, and persons concerned with the development of new methodologies to formulate and solve strategic problems by applying decision sciences methods. IJSDS provides conceptual and pragmatic guidance to decision makers by publishing papers that bridge the gap between strategic decision-making and decision sciences in business, industry, government and academia. The decision-making environment may include single or multiple decision makers considering single or multiple criteria strategic problems. IJSDS draws on a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to accounting, finance, information systems, international management, marketing, organizational management, operations research, production and operations management, and strategic management.

Coverage

IJSDS draws on a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to: accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, operations and production management, business process management, strategic management, and organizational management. Topics to be dicussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Applied probability
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Assignment
  • Branch and bound
  • Benchmarking
  • Business process reengineering
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Complexity theory
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data envelopment analysis
  • Data mining
  • Decision support systems
  • Decision analysis
  • Distributed decision making
  • Dynamic programming
  • Expert systems
  • Facilities planning and design
  • Flexible manufacturing systems
  • Forecasting
  • Fuzzy sets
  • Game theory
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Geometric programming
  • Global optimization
  • Goal programming
  • Graph theory
  • Group decisions and negotiations
  • Heuristics
  • Integer programming
  • Inventory management
  • Investment management
  • Knowledge-based systems
  • Large scale optimization
  • Linear programming
  • Location planning
  • Logistics management
  • Manufacturing management
  • Markov processes
  • Multiple criteria analysis
  • Multiple objective programming
  • Multivariate statistics
  • Network flows
  • Neural networks
  • Nonlinear programming
  • Operations research applications
  • Parametric programming
  • Penalty methods
  • Petri nets
  • Production and operations management
  • Productivity and competitiveness
  • Project management
  • Project scheduling
  • Quadratic programming
  • Quality control
  • Quality management
  • Queuing
  • Regression
  • Risk analysis
  • Risk management
  • Robustness and sensitivity analysis
  • Routing
  • Scheduling
  • Simulation
  • Stochastic programming
  • Supply chain management
  • Systems dynamics
  • Tabu search
  • Time series analysis
  • Transportation management
  • Travelling salesman
  • Uncertainty modeling
  • Utility theory

    Submission

    Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished article manuscripts will be considered. Interested authors must consult the Journal Guidelines for Manuscript Submission at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/journal-guidelines-for-submission/?titleid=1129 PRIOR to submission. Any further questions may be answered at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/. All article manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least three members of the editorial review board of the journal for a double-blind peer review. The final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.

    Starting January 1st, 2023, this journal will be converting from Hybrid Open Access to full Gold Open Access, meaning from January 1st, 2023 onward all of its published contents will be 100% open access and the copyright of the published work will stay with the author(s) ((Note: IGI Global open access journal article manuscript publishing offers authors the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of the article manuscript), and the publisher will provide the published contents free of charge globally (there will no longer be subscription fees or payment of any kind required for individuals and libraries to access and utilize the published contents).

    Once the journal is converted to Gold Open Access in 2023 and will no longer have subscription revenue backing it, the journal will be heavily reliant on Open Access Article Processing Charges (APCs) payment provided by either the author(s) or his/her/their respective institution or another funding agency, AFTER the article manuscript submission has been through a full double-blind peer review and the Editor-in-Chief at his/her full discretion has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. The APC will offset the costs of all of the activities associated with the publication of the article manuscript, including the digital tools used to support the manuscript management and review process, the typesetting, formatting and layout, online hosting, the submission of the journal’s content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes, third party software (plagiarism checks), editorial support which includes manuscript tracking, communications, submission guideline checks, communications with authors and reviewers, as well as all promotional support and activities which includes metadata distribution, press releases, promotional communications, web content, ads, fliers, brochures, postcards, etc. for the journal and its published contents; and the fact that all published articles will be freely accessible and able to be posted and disseminated widely by the authors.

    The Article Processing Charge (APC) for this journal is currently set at $1,300 USD and authors will not be asked to provide payment of the APC fee (directly to the publisher) until AFTER their manuscript has gone through the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor-in-Chief at his/her full discretion has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. Please note that there is absolutely NO correlation between the APC (Article Processing Charge) being paid by the author and the results of review process outcomes.

    For more information on APCs and Open Access Publishing please visit IGI Global’s open access publishing page here. Funding should be secured before submitting to an IGI Global open access journal. Researchers who are uncertain where to find funding for OA processing charges can visit IGI Global's Open Access Funding Resources Page. It is recommended to read the following article published by Web of Science, “A researcher’s complete guide to open access papers”.



    All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:


    Dr. Saeed Tabar
    Editor-in-Chief
    International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS)
    Email: stabar@bsu.edu


    Submit a Manuscript to IJSDS