About the Journal

The PAC Leadership and Organisational Studies Journal (PLOSJ) publishes impactful, original, and creative scholarship that advances theory and practice in leadership and its interconnected organisational dynamics. The journal welcomes research grounded in strong theoretical frameworks, tested through rigorous and diverse methodologies, as well as high-quality theory-building and innovative application papers that deepen and extend contemporary understanding of leadership.

PLOSJ encourages paradigm-challenging work, research that breaks new ground, interrogates conventional assumptions, and adopts fresh approaches to conceptualizing, measuring, and evaluating leadership and organisational development across business, public sector, and technology-driven contexts. For empirical submissions, the journal supports a broad range of methodological traditions, including quantitative and qualitative designs, neuroscience and physiological measures, experience sampling, field-based observational studies, and other robust research methods.

PLOSJ is not singularly focused on definitive answers. We recognise that impactful leadership scholarship often makes its greatest contributions by raising critical new questions, exploring why certain patterns emerge, how findings may vary across contexts, or what contingencies shape leadership effectiveness. Our priority is the advancement of powerful ideas with meaningful implications for leaders, managers, and practitioners, rather than the publication of predictable or conventional results. We embrace the inherent complexity of real-world leadership and value research where exploration, discovery, and reflective inquiry are as important as the outcomes.

Leadership is frequently examined in isolation, yet in practice it unfolds within complex ecosystems of context, roles, and formal authority structures. PLOSJ therefore prioritizes scholarship that situates leadership within relevant organisational realities, offering practical insights with direct value for leaders in business, governmental, non-profit, and other institutional settings. Leadership is enacted toward specific goals and functional demands, but many theoretical models overlook these applied dimensions. We encourage submissions that connect leadership to organisational functions, performance outcomes, and strategic pursuits.

This includes research that links leadership to areas such as technology and digital transformation, entrepreneurship, strategy and strategic thinking, operations, human resource management, and professional fields including healthcare, financial management, information communication technology (ICT), and artificial intelligence. PLOSJ also appreciates the tension between contextual grounding and generalizability and supports authors who thoughtfully navigate and balance these considerations.

Moreover, PLOSJ seeks forward-looking studies that address emerging phenomena such as big data, the sharing economy, automation, and machine learning. We further encourage global, Afrocentric, and cross-cultural perspectives that reflect leadership as a lived and practiced discipline across diverse societies and institutional landscapes.

The PLRJ will publish:

  • Original research articles
  • Theoretical and conceptual papers
  • Case analyses on leadership and organisational experiences
  • Policy briefs and reflective essays
  • Book reviews and reviews of book chapters
  • Publisher: Evangel Publishing House
  • Frequency: Rolling publication with quarterly volume compilation of articles
  • Format: Online publication of papers complete with DOI

 

Open Access and Copyright

  • PLOSJ operates under a free-to-publish, open-access model.
  • Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons license (specific license determined by the journal).
  • Authors may archive their final manuscripts in their institutional repositories.

Publication Fees

PLOSJ does not charge submission nor processing fees. However, once your manuscript is fully accepted for publication, the journal charges a modest publication fees of USD 100 or Kes 10,000 to facilitate the sustainability of journal operational expenses.