About the Journal

The Strategic Leadership Innovation Journal  (SLIJ) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal.  SLIJ ambitiously positions itself at the intersection of strategic leadership and innovation within diverse organizational contexts, aiming to publish pioneering research, theoretical insights, and practical applications that underscore the pivotal role of effective leadership strategies in driving innovation and organizational transformation. It seeks to bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world leadership challenges, catering to a broad audience that includes scholars, business leaders, and policymakers. With a focus on topics such as innovative leadership models, strategic decision-making, and digital transformation, the journal is committed to advancing understanding and practice in leadership and management. By promoting research that addresses grand questions, embraces paradoxes, and challenges existing paradigms, the Strategic Leadership Innovation Journal endeavors to catalyze significant advancements in leadership scholarship, practice, and policy, fostering discontinuous growth in the field's learning curve and contributing to the sustainable success of organizations worldwide.

SUBJECT AREA AND CATEGORY

    • Business, Management and Accounting
      • Strategy and Management
    • Decision Sciences
      • Management Science and Operations Research
    • Social Sciences
      • Sociology and Political Science
This journal is aligned with our responsible management goal

We aim to champion researchers, practitioners, policymakers and organisations who share our goals of contributing to a more ethical, responsible and sustainable way of working.

Publication Ethics Statement

Strategic Leadership Innovation Journal  (SLIJ) publishes high-quality work by enforcing a rigorous peer-review process and ensuring that high-quality scientific works are added to the field of scholarly publication. In cases of plagiarism, data falsification, and incorrect authorship credit, SLIJ takes these ethical publication issues very seriously and follows a zero-tolerance policy. SLIJ uses TURNITIN for all submissions to ensure the originality of the content.

Copyright / Open Access Policy

This journal is dedicated to offering immediate, free, open access to its scholarly content, grounded in the belief that accessible research enriches the global exchange of knowledge. Accordingly, all articles are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0. In line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) principles, this journal ensures that anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of our articles for any lawful purpose without the need for prior permission from either the publisher or the author.

Copyright, Publication Rights, Licensing, and Repository Policy

  • The author(s) retain copyright over their work published by our journal, without restrictions.
  • Authors are granted the freedom to retain publishing rights without limitations.
  • The legal framework and formal attributes of articles published in our journal adhere to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To this effect, all published articles, including their formats (e.g., PDF), will bear the notation:
    • © Year by the author(s). Licensed and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
  • Authors are empowered to utilize their published articles in any manner they choose, provided they attribute the work to the journal using the specified citation format of the published article.

Repository Policy: Authors are explicitly authorized to deposit any version of their article—be it the author's original version, the accepted manuscript, or the version of record—on personal websites, institutional repositories, or other non-commercial repositories of their choice. Additionally, the policy extends to commercial platforms and social media, promoting broad dissemination.

Article Version Posting Permissions

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Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Inclusion in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS Archival System

Archival Policy

SLIJ is preserved in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and PKP Preservation Network (PN) archival systems to ensure that our content is securely and permanently archived, safeguarding the accessibility of the journal's corpus for future generations. These initiatives provide a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. This collaboration reflects our dedication to the long-term availability and stability of scholarly records.  The URL to the LockSS Publisher Manifest for the journal is https://icrp.org.uk/journal/index.php/SLIJ/gateway/lockss.

Announcement and Advertisement

Call for papers, and all academic activities, such as conferences, are announced for free in the journal's News & Announcements section. Advertisements can be placed on the relevant website, through email marketing, and on social media.