jibs-workflow
Journal of International Business Studies Workflow (jibs-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which jibs- skill to use right now* for your JIBS manuscript.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JIBS — the flagship, top-ranked international-business journal, established 1970, published by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature) on behalf of the Academy of International Business (AIB), of which it is the official journal. JIBS studies cross-border, multi-country, and multilevel phenomena: MNEs, internationalization, cross-cultural management, international strategy/finance/economics, and global political economy, with country and culture treated as explicit levels of analysis. The non-negotiable bar: a manuscript must address a real-world international-business phenomenon, problem, or puzzle and state explicitly what it contributes to IB theory — incremental single-country extensions are discouraged. JIBS is paradigmatically and methodologically pluralistic (quantitative, qualitative, mixed, theory); rigor and a clear IB theoretical contribution are the gatekeepers, not any one method.
Editorial team context: Rosalie L. Tung (Simon Fraser University) is the current Editor in Chief on the Springer journal home and editorial-board page, with Anne Hoekman listed as Managing Editor. The submission route is the JIBS online tool at mc.manuscriptcentral.com; optional gold open access is priced on the Springer "How to publish with us" page.
When to trigger
- "What should I do next?" with a half-built JIBS manuscript
- You have cross-country data and a result but no clear IB theoretical story
- A reviewer/editor pushes on "phenomenon" or "contribution to IB theory"
- You received a JIBS decision letter (R&R or reject) and need to switch into response mode
- You keep bouncing between theory, cross-national measurement, and writing without a plan