Journal of Organizational Change Management Cover Image for Volume 39, Issue 3
Current Issue
Volume 39,
Issue 3,
27 May 2026

About the Journal

Successful organizations respond intelligently to factors which precipitate change. Economic climates, political trends, changes in consumer demands, management policy or structure, employment levels and financial resources - all these elements are constantly at play to ensure that organizations clinging on to static structures will ultimately lose out.

But change is a dynamic and alarming thing - this journal addresses how to manage it positively, so that employees give their support and the positive goals set are worked towards with enthusiasm.

Submission information

Accepted manuscript types and word counts

  • Research Paper — up to 8000 words
  • Editorial — up to 3000 words
  • Book Review — up to 1500 words

Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.

Reference style

Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.

Keywords

Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper.

Peer review type

Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.

Open access options

This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.

Accepted languages

This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.

Accepted submission files

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

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Calls for papers

Closes: 31st January 2027

The special issue aims to position organisational change management as an important component of this rethink and to map the emerging set of ideas through a change management perspective, including new models of change management, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and emerging perspectives on sustainability.

Guest editor(s): Malgorzata Ciesielska, Sunil Sahadev, Dipak Sahaa