Cuadernos de Administración was created in 1981 within the Administration Department of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Cuadernos de Administración is a publication open to different disciplinary, thematic and methodological perspectives that address the theoretical, axiological and empirical developments of the administration. Its priority is research that improves the understanding of the characteristics and specificities of administrative practices in Latin America.

Notebooks of Administration is a magazine directed especially to academic, but also, to professionals and students interested in knowing the advances of the knowledge on the discipline and professional practice of the administration.

As of 2000, Cuadernos de Administración focused entirely on the publication of articles prepared based on research results, in order to disseminate new knowledge about administration. Consequently, the Journal evaluates the articles that are submitted to its consideration from two perspectives: its contribution to knowledge and the rigor of the processes of inquiry that sustain the disclosed findings.

Cuadernos de Administración was the first Latin American Magazine in the area of ​​Administration admitted in Scielo and the first Colombian Journal different from those of the health area in obtaining the entry to this index, and the first to obtain category A2 in the area of ​​administration in the country. To this is added the quality of the international and national articles published by the researchers of the area. It has published authors from 14 countries in Europe, North and Latin America, and researchers from the most important universities in the country: Andes, National (Bogota, Manizales and Medellin), Antioquia, Valle, Rosario, Sabana, Externado, Icesi, Eafit, CESA, etc.

The internationalization and increasing increase in the quality of its articles is the result, in turn, of its determined orientation towards research. In the last five-year period, 81% of the articles publish research results, 12% reflect the product of research, and 6% are state of the art.

Several attributes make this magazine unique: disseminate rigorous papers that generate knowledge about Ibero-American reality, dialogue with universal literature and are relevant to the world; its links with networks of researchers that constitute the nuclei of knowledge production in this Region of the world and are the basis of collaborators and readers of the Journal; rigorous evaluation processes aimed at improving the quality of texts; consistency in quality; recognitions, such as being in Q3 of SCImago Journal & Country Rank. All this has positioned it as a high quality magazine.