Journal of Inter-Organizational Relationships

Journal of Inter-Organizational Relationships is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, together about 38.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

This title has ceased (2024). The Journal of Inter-Organizational Relationships (JIOR) is an interdisciplinary journal focused exclusively on interactions between firms, other organizations, groups, and subgroups both internal and external to an organization. In many marketing and management cases, relationships are the cornerstone for high performance, productive and efficient exchange. The contexts for such relationships include supply chain relationships, marketing channel relationships, third-party relationships, business-to-business relationships, regulatory relationships, strategic partnerships, export/import relationships, intermediary relationships, and intra-organizational relationships between groups, departments, or divisions. The common themes that will drive JIOR are the theories, rather than the context, that explain relationships. These include, but are not limited to, transaction cost economics, agency theory, trust, commitment theory, control theory, stewardship theory, governance theory, power-dependence theory, and the study of contracts, both written and psychological. Contributions to new inter-organization theories are welcome.Such theories can be applied to a variety of topics in marketing and management including relationship eco-systems and platforms, inter-group conflict, contract negotiations, relational business models, relationship formation and dissolution, the dark side of trust-based relationships, issues of control and coordination, the effects of technology on decision making, power imbalances, adverse selection and moral hazard, incentives, monitoring, contract enforcement, legal remedies, diversity of goals, internal organizational issues, control-trust dynamics, relational exchange, inter-group communication strategies, sales force relationships, goal misalignment, calculative trust and calculative commitment, and substitution and complementation of control processes. Either conceptual or methodological theories are welcome. A strong thread that will run through all work accepted is managerial relevance. In addition, all papers must make a theoretical contribution to the field. Editorial decisions - Opinion pieces, MBA-style reports and other non-academic pieces are not acceptable. An active effort will be made to protect the reviewer's time and commitment required to the journal, and therefore submissions that do not make an academic contribution to the field or advance the scope of knowledge and thought regarding busi

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Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS

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Database indexing

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Early warning / risk: Marked as ceased in ESCI on 17 August 2026. CAS Early Warning Journal List: not listed in any of 6 editions.LetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

2694-3980

Electronic ISSN

2694-3999

Latest issue on the website

Volume 28, Issue 3-4 (2022)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website