Editor-in-chief: Thomas Watson

Production: Laura Woodman

As one of Canada’s oldest management publications, Ivey Business Journal (ISSN 1492-7071) has been serving business practitioners since 1933, when it was launched by the Ivey Business School at Western University. Today, as an online hub for management-related thought leadership, IBJ is supported by Ivey Publishing and the Ivey Business School Foundation.

Previously published as the Quarterly Review of Commerce, Business Quarterly, and Ivey Business Quarterly, our name and format have changed over the years, but our mandate remains the same.

Improving the practice of management is our mission

Driven by curiosity, our publication exists to help organizational leaders explore how to best confront the challenges and disruptive forces that define today’s marketplace with an eye on seizing the unprecedented opportunities that they create. To do this, IBJ publishes a mix of in-house articles, executive Q&As, and exclusive contributions from experienced business practitioners and subject-matter experts in the form of IBJ Insights or feature articles.

IBJ Insights (800 – 1,500 words) offer concise observations or analysis of market trends and other topics of interest to our sophisticated readership of management professionals and academics. Features (1,500 – 3,000 words) deliver transformative ideas with practical applications based on original research or unique marketplace experience.

When publishing with IBJ, contributors gain access to a trusted thought leadership platform that has been read by senior managers and C-suite decision makers since before Canada’s first executive education and MBA programs were established at Ivey. And our reach goes well beyond Ivey’s influential network of alumni. In addition to reaching the Ivey community and subscribers to our content alerts, IBJ regularly attracts an international audience in the tens of thousands.

By publishing with IBJ, our authors ensure that their thought leadership articles are polished, engaging, and informative. And with no pay walls, published content is readily accessible to the business community along with detailed author bios and relevant links to related author works.

Our editorial team welcomes proposal letters from potential contributors offering original and exclusive content. Pitch letters following our submission guidelines should be sent to IBJsubmissions@ivey.ca.

AUTHOR TESTIMONIALS

“I’ve written over 150 articles for IBJ since 1976, but more importantly, I’m an avid reader. The publication’s secret sauce has two main ingredients, which are tight editing and a laser focus on delivering actionable management takeaways in readable articles that maximize the insight-to-reading-time ratio. Quite simply, IBJ offers a big bang for an executive buck.” — John S. McCallum, retired I. H. Asper School of Business professor and former chair of Manitoba Hydro

“As a business professor and leadership researcher, I greatly value IBJ’s focus on readability along with its collaborative approach to editing, which has helped me articulate to business practitioners the importance of leadership character along with emerging best practices in executive development by translating academic findings into actionable thought leadership.” — Gerard Seijts, Ivey Business School professor and former executive director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership