Focus and Scope

Scope and Topics

UBFR welcomes original empirical research articles, analytical and quantitative modeling papers, executive case studies, and systematic literature reviews across business administration and financial economics. Key thematic areas include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic Business Management & Corporate Strategy: Enterprise growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) management, supply chain finance, organizational agility, and corporate value creation.

• Corporate Finance, Governance & Capital Markets: Capital structure optimization, dividend policy, equity valuation, board monitoring dynamics, investor relations, and shareholder rights.

• Banking, Financial Intermediation & FinTech: Digital banking transformations, algorithmic trading, decentralized finance (DeFi), credit scoring models, and financial inclusion dynamics.

• Risk Management & Quantitative Analytics: Enterprise risk management (ERM), portfolio optimization, financial distress prediction, liquidity risk modeling, and market volatility forecasting.

• Sustainable Finance, CSR & ESG Integration: Green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, corporate social responsibility impact on cost of capital, and integrated ESG reporting frameworks.