Focus and Scope
Business System & Innovation Journal (BSIJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that advances theoretical and practical understanding of how business systems, digital technologies, organizational capabilities, and innovation interact to shape organizational performance and sustainable development.
The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine the design, integration, transformation, and governance of business systems across private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Particular attention is given to research that explains how organizations use technology, data, managerial practices, and strategic innovation to improve operational effectiveness, decision-making, adaptability, resilience, and competitiveness.
BSIJ welcomes empirical studies, conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews, and interdisciplinary research employing quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. Submissions should provide clear theoretical, methodological, managerial, or policy contributions and demonstrate their relevance to contemporary business and organizational challenges.
Coverage includes, but is not limited to:
- Business process management and integration, including process analysis, modelling, redesign, optimization, cross-functional integration, and operational excellence.
- Digital transformation and digital business, including digital platforms, technology-enabled business models, digital capabilities, and organizational transformation.
- Business information systems, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and other integrated organizational systems.
- Business process automation, including intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, workflow technologies, and technology-supported operational improvement.
- Data analytics and business decision-making, including business intelligence, predictive analytics, data visualization, and data-driven management.
- Organizational strategy and performance, including strategic alignment, performance measurement, organizational effectiveness, and technology-enabled competitiveness.
- Innovation and organizational adaptation, including managerial, process, service, and business model innovation, as well as organizational agility and resilience.
- Human resource management and the future of work, including talent management, employee performance, digital work practices, team productivity, and human–technology interaction.
- Leadership and organizational change, including digital leadership, change management, innovative organizational culture, and technology-driven transformation.
- Cross-functional and inter-organizational collaboration, including coordination among organizational functions, business networks, partnerships, and digital ecosystems.
- Governance, ethics, and responsible technology use, including corporate governance, data governance, privacy, digital ethics, accountability, and responsible innovation.
- Sustainability and social responsibility, including sustainable business practices, environmental and social performance, and the contribution of business systems to long-term value creation.
Through this focus, BSIJ seeks to foster rigorous and relevant research that contributes to the development of more integrated, innovative, responsible, and sustainable business systems. The journal encourages studies from diverse institutional, industrial, and geographical contexts, including research that connects local and regional business challenges with broader international debates.
