Greetings from the Editor’s Desk!
It is my pleasure to bring you the second issue of the year 2026 – Volume 38: Issue 2 of IIMB Management Review (IMR), with key highlights from the journal.
We are happy to welcome Professor Cordula Barzantny, Human Resources Management & Business Law, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France; and Dr Nada Khaddage-Soboh, Center for Women in Business & Leadership, American University of Beirut, Lebanon on board the IMR panel of Associate Editors. Their rich academic experience and editorial guidance will undoubtedly steer the journal forward in its journey to excellence.
We are thankful to the outgoing Associate Editors Professors Debarati Basu, E S Srinivas, Rupa Chanda, Naresh Khatri, and Srinivasan Sankaraguruswamy for their time and continued support to the journal over the years.
The number of submissions to IMR continues to be on an upswing, indicative of its increasing visibility. The forthcoming special issues reiterates our commitment to exciting research emanating from Conferences and Institutions from across the country and overseas.
The IMR June 2026 issue includes two accepted articles from submissions received from the 6th International Conference on Financial Markets & Corporate Finance for inclusion in the forthcoming IMR-ICFMCF 2024 Special Issue. The issue comprises five other regular research articles. We invite you to explore the complement of seven articles in this issue.
IMR–ICFMCF 2024 Special articles
Turnover Tales: Investigating Investor Biases Through the Return–Volume Dynamics in the Indian Stock Market by Mirabel Josephine Paul and Madhumathi Rajendran
Integrating Sentiment Analysis with CNN–LSTM Models for Stock Price Forecasting by Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui, Mohd Raagib Shakeel, Shahzad Alam, Mahak Manzoor, Saif Siddiqui, Prashant Ranjan
Regular articles
Home Team Advantage in International Cricket: Impact of Pitches, Rank, and Toss on the Match Outcome by Chitresh Kumar, Sakshi Malik and Girish Balasubramanian
Design of Contextual Agricultural Credit Scoring Model for Kisan Credit Card Scheme in India: An Application of NLP and Machine Learning by Soma Panja and Subroto Chowdhury
Beyond Junk: Evaluating Quality Premium’s Influence on Stock Prices and Returns in India Before and After COVID by Ann K George and Parthajit Kayal
Refining Emotional Labour Metrics: The Hospitality Situational Judgement Test by Ramyani Kundu, Tanusree Dutta and Swati Dhir
Going Green – Exports and Adoption of Green Technology in India by Shreya Biswas and Sneha Thayyil
We are also happy to announce IMRDC 2027, in January 2027 at IIMB. The 18th edition of the annual IMR Doctoral Conference will feature a Keynote and select paper presentations after 3 rounds of rigorous review. Other featured events at the conference would include Panel Discussions, Workshops, and Invited Talks from eminent researchers. IMRDC brings together distinguished academics, doctoral students, and delegates from across the country for two days of intense academic engagement. An “exclusive discussant” for each of the paper selected for presentation at the conference remains a much-commended feature at IMRDC, since its inception in 2009. Submissions are invited from doctoral students from Management Science and allied disciplines, and from institutions across geographies. The Call for Submissions is now open and we invite our readers to access the CFP and learn more about the conference at https://www.iimb.ac.in/imrdc2027/.
IIMB Management Review is a Gold Open Access journal and offers readers free access to all articles published in the journal. We welcome you to explore https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/iimb-management-review and www.iimb.ac.in/imr/ for the current and archived issues of IMR.
We look forward to your continued engagement with the Journal as we endeavour to connect with our readers on contemporary issues related to management.
Best Wishes,
Sushanta K. Mishra
Editor-in-Chief, IIMB Management Review
E-mail address: eic@iimb.ac.in
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