National Library of Australia

Labour and Management in Development

Labour and Management Development (ISSN 1443-6698) is a journal publishing research on management and labour issues in nations undergoing accelerated economic development.

 

What's New

  

LMD 13 (2012) is now open for submissions.  This will be a general edition carrying articles across the range of the journal’s concerns:

http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/lmd/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope

 

Two Special Editions are also currently being discussed.  They include material on:

·         Community Security and the Environment:  this is being developed in co-operation with the Asia Pacific Seminar Series http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/apss/.  The  guest edited by Dr Minako Sakai,  University of New South Wales Canberra.

·         Development Policy Initiatives in Melanesia: an interesting development in policy making in Melanesia has been the emergence of indigenous policy makers who are challenging international consultants as the primary source of development policy advice to governments in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.  This Special Edition will be edited by Dr Charles Yala, National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea http://www.nri.org.pg/

Editor’s note

Labour and Management in Development has now been published for 12 years and it seems like a good time to review what it has achieved.

 

In saw terms LMD has published 63 articles.  Given the peculiar publishing philosophy of LMD, which may be summarized as formative rather than summative, rejection rates are irrelevant – all articles which are written and re-written to a sufficient standard are published, provided they are in areas of relevance to the journal.  Completion rates are a little below 50% with most published articles going through at least 3 iterations with editors and reviewers before being accepted

 

Articles have come from the following regional areas:

Africa                                    1%                          West Asia            0.5%

South-east Asia                                36%                        Pacific                   17%

East Asia                              22%                        General                                3.5%

South Asia                           20%

 

Topic areas of published articles are not easily classified but the following break – up is indicative:

Labour                  32%

Management    30%

Gender                                20%

Policy                    18%

 

While the journal has been placed under ‘Applied Economics’ by Australian government classifiers, it has carried a considerable number of articles on social, political, legal and environmental issues.  The major theme of the journal has been ‘development’ in all its forms.  While the initial focus on Labour and Management is evident in the overall numbers of articles, it is noticeable that Policy has been an increasing focus in recent years.

 

The journal welcomes comments on these trends and suggestions for directions in which the journal might develop further.

 

 


Vol 13 (2012)

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