Journal of Case Studies

Journal Mission

Journal of Case Studies was established by the Society for Case Research to provide a regular flow of effective, up-to-date cases to promote excellence in case teaching.

Publication Process

The annual submission window closes on the last day of September, and the associated journal issues are published in the subsequent year.

The process for publishing begins with submitting a case and teaching note through the Ignited Peer Review Portal. We strongly encourage, but do not require, authors to present their cases and teaching notes for review and discussion at the annual SCR Summer Case Writers Workshop held in June or July. After the workshop, authors are encouraged to revise and submit their cases and teaching notes based on feedback received at the Workshop. After the September 30 deadline, the work is first reviewed by the editors and either sent out to reviewers for double-blind peer review or returned to the authors. If the work is not suitable for publication in the Journal of Case Studies, it may be rejected at the editorial review stage or anywhere along the review process. 

All cases and teaching notes and articles must adhere to the SCR Generative AI Policy or they may be immediately rejected based on editor discretion.

The journal is published three times a year. The journal has a 15 to 20 percent acceptance rate and is included on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) list as a “C” rated publication.

No part of an SCR published case or teaching note may be reproduced by any means or used in any form without written permission of the Society for Case Research.

Types of Cases Accepted

The journal publishes both decision-based and descriptive cases. Decision-based cases place the reader in the role of a decision-maker and require the reader to make recommendations to handle the situation described in the case. Descriptive cases provide a description of a real situation and then challenge the reader to analyze, assess, and evaluate the situation before determining what ways to effectively handle the situation.

The journal publishes both field-researched cases and cases for publication based on substantial research from secondary sources. For field-research cases, permissions are required from the organization and all people interviewed. The journal does not accept fictional or synthesized cases.

The journal accepts articles that contribute something new to the knowledge about writing or using teaching cases, as well as the impact of teaching cases. Submissions can be conceptual in nature, as well as those that use survey results subjected to statistical or qualitative analysis (or both), or a data set developed or accessed by the authors and then analyzed with results, conclusions, and suggestions for further research.

Very rarely will the journal invite articles on selected subject matters.

Cases that have been published previously or are under review elsewhere will not be reviewed and will be summarily rejected.