Advancing Risk Thinking. Enabling Better Decisions.
JOURNAL VISION
To become the leading platform in the region for advancing strategic risk thinking, decision intelligence, and Presilience-driven leadership. The journal aims to bridge global expertise with local insight, supporting organizations across Saudi Arabia and the GCC in navigating uncertainty with confidence.
OBJECTIVES
- Promote practical and research-based insights in risk management and leadership
- Connect academia, industry, and practitioners through shared knowledge
- Support Vision 2030 by strengthening risk capability and decision quality
- Encourage innovative thinking beyond traditional compliance-driven approaches
- Build a regional voice in global risk conversations
We welcome contributions from:
- Researchers
- Students
- Practitioners
- Industry Experts
- Thought Leaders
Submissions Due Date: 18 June 2026
* Submissions are accepted in both English and Arabic to ensure broader impact and accessibility across the region.
Dr. Fayadh Alenezi, Editor
I truly believe we need a space like this. Across organizations, there are real experiences, hard lessons and powerful ideas that rarely get shared beyond the room they happened in. And that’s a loss for all of us. This journal is built to change that.
If you have a case, an insight, a challenge you’ve worked through, or even a different way of thinking about risk and decisions , this is your space. We welcome contributions in both Arabic and English because this conversation should reflect who we are and where we are going as a region.
My vision is simple: to build a platform that connects people, ideas, and real impact, and supports the ambitions of Vision 2030 in a meaningful way.
Each submission must include:
- A high-resolution author photograph.
- A short biography of approximately 100 words.
- Two or three highlighted quotes or excerpts that best capture the key messages of the article.
Guidelines:
- To be original in content, and to provide appropriate references where other content is indeed included. The responsibility for originality and plagiarism issues remains with the author, not the Institute of Strategic Risk. Management (ISRM).
- Make a contribution to business practice, and have not been previously published elsewhere.
- Provide opinions and insights, as well as practical information on how to deal with contemporary risk and resilience management issues.
- Not be commercial in nature (i.e. advertising or publicising a service or product).
- Author/s to include a statement regarding conflicts of interest.
- Papers should be submitted in Word and double spaced.
- Harvard referencing should be utilized as appropriate.
- Suggested paper length: 800 to 1500 words.
Peer-Reviewed Article:
- Answer the “so what” question.
- Address the implications / impacts for business practitioners, supported by appropriate practical examples (where applicable).
- Suggested paper length/s:
- Empirical paper <5,000 words excluding title page, abstract & references
- Review <4,000 words excluding title page, abstract & references
- Meta analysis <4,000 words excluding title page, abstract & references
- Case history <3,000 words excluding title page, abstract and references
Role of ISRM Journal Peer Review Committee:
- Reviewers may offer comments and suggestions for further revision, or reject the paper.
- Final copy-editing may occur to ensure a professional standard is maintained.
- Once the paper has been accepted for publication, the publication date will be advised.
We look forward to receiving your contributions for the ISRM Saudi Journal.
