Publishing with Industrial and Corporate Change

Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC) is committed to presenting and interpreting corporate organisation and change, innovation, industrial structures and dynamics, drawing from a variety of disciplines, including economics, management, history, political science, and sociology.

By publishing with ICC, you will be joining a prestigious author community from across the social science industry. Read more about the benefits of publishing with us below.

Excellent Author Experience

Industrial and Corporate Change has a diverse and experienced editorial board who will support the international reach of your work. The simple submissions process makes it easy for all new and returning authors to submit their work, benefit from rigorous editing that includes an efficient and careful double-anonymized peer review process, and receive detailed feedback on their manuscript.

Range of Content

ICC publishes six issues per year, comprising original research articles and reviews, and regular special collections published by guest editors, helping authors to get their article in front of relevant readers.

The journal is committed to presenting and interpreting evidence on corporate and industrial change, acting as a forum where industrial historians relate their analyses to the state of the art in the relevant social sciences and propose conjectures and theories. Conversely, economists and practitioners of other social disciplines will be encouraged to apply their models to historical evidence.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The internal structures of firms
• The history of technologies
• The evolution of industries
• The nature of competition
• The decision rules and strategies
• The sociology of management and of the workforce
• The performance of industries over time

Discover the latest issue here.

Global Readership

Industrial and Corporate Change has an impact factor of 2.8 (Source: Clarivate, 2024). Articles are read all over the world, your ideas connect with the widest audience to give your research the greatest possible impact.

Articles published in ICC may also be featured on our dedicated social and behavioural sciences Twitter channel:@OUPSocSci

Open Access

ICC is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay an open access fee to make their accepted manuscript freely available online. Learn more about OA and other licensing agreements here.

Article Metrics

Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online.

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