Aims and scope
Construction Management and Economics (CM&E) is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal covering the management and economics aspects of the construction processes in the construction industry and the wider built environment.

The journal aims to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction and the built environment fields as a research topic. The journal’s scope covers the entire range of construction services and processes provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sectors, including design and procurement through life management.

The journal’s audience includes academics, researchers, and practitioners from the construction and the built environment industries. CM&E covers a wide range of value-adding activities and all the stages of the construction process, involving coalitions of multiple actors, clients, and users. To this end, CM&E will consider papers demonstrating how diverse academic disciplines and practitioner perspectives enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological, or empirical contributions to the construction field. We also value papers that offer strong practical applications that seek to promote research and academic debates.

We discourage papers that only focus on applications of existing techniques, tools, analysis, or technologies on well-known issues that do not theoretically contribute to advancing the body of knowledge in the field. Similarly, we discourage papers focusing on design or technological applications without offering critical, reflexive accounts of practice. With no exception, at CM&E, we expect all papers and notes to have strong theoretical positioning.

We encourage the following manuscript submissions, which will all be subject to double anonymous peer review: original research papers and research notes.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.