Submission Guidelines HBR | Hayek Global College

Scope

The Hayek Business Review welcomes relevant academic and practical contributions that advance understanding of business, management, economics, and related fields. We encourage submissions from academics, practitioners, educators, and policymakers and particularly value work that connects applied research with implication and dispersed knowledge. Friedrich Hayek’s concept of dispersed knowledge holds that the information needed to coordinate economic activity is scattered across millions of individuals rather than concentrated in any single person, organization, or government. That means that much of this knowledge is: 

  • Local: It concerns particular places, customers, resources, and circumstances.
  • Tacit: People acquire it through experience and may be unable to express it formally.
  • Incomplete: Each person possesses only a small part of the relevant information.
  • Continuously changing: Preferences, prices, technologies, and available resources constantly evolve.

The broader insight is that effective institutions should enable people to use their specialized knowledge and coordinate their decisions. This idea applies not only to markets but also to entrepreneurship, organizational design, innovation, and public policy.

That is why Hayek Business Review areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Entrepreneurship and new venture creation
  • Innovation and technology management
  • Leadership and organizational behavior
  • Strategic management
  • Marketing and consumer behavior
  • Human resource management
  • International business
  • Family business
  • Business education
  • Sustainability and social impact
  • Applied economics and public policy
  • Data analytics and decision-making

Interdisciplinary submissions and manuscripts addressing emerging business topics are also welcome.

The Hayek Business Review further accepts the following types of submissions:

  • Research Articles: Original theoretical or empirical studies that make a clear contribution to the relevant field.
  • Applied Research Reports: Research-based analyses addressing practical business, management, economic, or policy challenges.
  • Case Studies: In-depth examinations of organizations, industries, decisions, or business situations that offer transferable insights.
  • Literature Reviews: Critical and systematic syntheses of existing research that and identify major developments, gaps, and opportunities for further study.
  • Practitioner Perspectives: Evidence-informed articles presenting professional experience, managerial insights, or reflections on contemporary practice.
  • Educational Innovations: Accounts and evaluations of innovative approaches, methods, technologies, or practices in business education.
  • Book Reviews: Critical assessments of recent books relevant to the Review’s areas of interest.

Manuscript Preparation

Submissions should:

  • Be original and not currently published or under consideration by another publication.
  • Present a clear purpose, argument, or research question.
  • Explain the relevance of the article to the Review’s audience.
  • Use clear, professional, and accessible language.
  • Cite all sources accurately and consistently.
  • Include an abstract and keywords where appropriate to the article type.
  • Disclose any funding, competing interests, or potential conflicts of interest.
  • Obtain the necessary permissions for copyrighted material, confidential information, and research involving human participants.

Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of their work and compliance with accepted standards of academic and professional integrity.

Double-Blind Peer Review

The Hayek Business Review uses a double-blind peer-review process, meaning that authors and reviewers remain anonymous to one another.

To preserve anonymity, authors must submit:

  1. A separate title page containing the article title, authors’ names, affiliations, contact details, acknowledgements, funding information, and relevant disclosures.
  2. An anonymized manuscript that contains no names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or other details that could reveal the authors’ identities.

Editorial and Review Process

Each submission will first undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine whether it fits the scope of the Review and meets its basic quality and submission requirements.

Manuscripts proceeding to review will be assigned to an editor whose field of knowledge most closely matches the subject of the submission. The assigned editor will oversee the evaluation process and select reviewers with appropriate subject expertise.

Acceptance is based on the manuscript’s quality, originality, methodological or analytical soundness, relevance, clarity, and contribution to scholarship or practice. The editors reserve the right to request revisions for content, structure, style, or clarity before publication.