Management research is an area that has often been maligned as being of secondary importance and with less impact than scientific contributions, but this is changing due to the impact of organized management education that has gone beyond top tier schools and has been buffeted by contributions from top quality researchers teaching and engaging in meaningful and relevant management oriented research in the vast landscape of me too schools, that have mimicked the rigor and course discipline to a second level of students and come out with excellent results . Recruitments have not suffered due to a school, being outside of the metro cities of India.

The focus of this journal will be to look at management in larger context country specificity is no longer important, as organizations, businesses and institutions need to be run and managed by global citizens to survive in the coming information symmetric era. We intend to capitalize on the vast network of research and learning institutions and organizations fed by yearning researchers of the south East Asian region, similar in a drive for excellence and scholastic brilliance, many of whom come to the subcontinent to further their research goals. We also hope to look at how academic research generated in this region will actually help the way organizations do business given the vast inequalities of context, resources and a surfeit of educated employable youth, in many of the countries of the south east Asian region.