Editor-in-chief: Thomas Watson

Production: Laura Woodman

Launched as a management resource in 1933 by the Ivey Business School at Western University, Ivey Business Journal (ISSN 1492-7071) is one of Canada’s oldest business publications. 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.

With an independent editorial team supported by Ivey Publishing and the Ivey Business School Foundation, IBJ operates as an online hub for management-related thought leadership. Driven by curiosity, we 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.

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. Features (2,000 – 5,000 words) deliver transformative ideas with practical applications based on original research or unique marketplace experience.

As a member of the Ivey community, IBJ supports Ivey Next, a new Ivey Business School strategy introduced in 2022 that committed the school to helping “address critical issues facing business and society.” To do this, our editorial team welcomes proposal letters from potential contributors offering original and exclusive content related to sustainability, the future of work, innovation, competitiveness, and global citizenship. Other primary areas of interest for contributions include executive education, leadership, governance, organizational and consumer behaviour, operations, marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Pitch letters must follow our posted submission guidelines. Content proposals should be sent to IBJsubmissions@ivey.ca.

WHY PUBLISH WITH IBJ?

When publishing with Ivey Business Journal, contributors gain access to a trusted platform for thought leadership that has been serving 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 thousands of Canadian subscribers to our content alerts, IBJ regularly attracts an international audience, including about 25,000 monthly readers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.

Our contributors also benefit from a collaboration with professional editors. When it comes to thought leadership, readability is as important as authenticity. But not all individuals with valuable insights have the time or skills required to effectively articulate what they have to say to their target audience. By publishing with IBJ, our authors ensure that their thought leadership articles are polished, engaging, and informative, instead of just more marketplace noise. After being published, our content also isn’t hidden behind a pay wall—it remains readily accessible to the business community along with detailed author bios and relevant links to related author works.

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 chairman 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 executive director, Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership