Publishing Ethics Guidelines

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  It is necessary to conduct your research ethically. Corporate Management Review (CMR) takes publishing ethics seriously. Hence, it is important to follow the APA ethical standards for all parties involved in the act of publishing: journal editors, scholars, researchers, authors, peer reviewers, and journal publishers.

  CMR requests authors to strictly follow APA ethical standards. CMR requests authors to keep their data available for at least five years after the date of publication by CMR.

  Contributors are required to confirm that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their research sample, animal or human, or to describe the necessary treatment in detail.

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

The Editorial Board follows the below ethical conduct to accomplish its duties.
• The editors and editorial board members of Corporate Management Review are responsible for deciding specific quality articles submitted to the journal for publication.
• The decisions for accepting work for publication must be based on the validation of the work quality in question and its importance to scholars and practitioners;
• The editors and editorial board members must keep a submitted manuscript in confidential without disclosing its relevant information to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and responsible editorial members.
• The editors and editorial board members must assess submitted articles objectively based on their quality and contributions disregarding conditions related to gender, gender, religious belief, ethnic groups, nationality, citizenship, or political tendency of the author(s).
• The editors should fully delegate co-editors, associate editors or editorial board members to review and consider submitted articles in which they might have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other connections or relationships with any of individuals or organizations associated with the submitted articles;
• The editors and editorial board members should request all contributors to disclose all possible relevant competing interests and publish corrections before or after publication.
• Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review for editors and editorial board members must be kept highly confidential and cannot be used for personal advantage.
• The editors and editorial board members must do their best to prevent the work from misusing fraudulent, defamatory or statements against the law;
• The editors and editorial board members must take effective responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented regarding a submitted article or published articles;
• The editors and editorial board members must look into every reported act of potential unethical publishing behavior carefully.
• The editors of Corporate Management Review reserves the legitimate right to withdraw and rescind any accepted article should a case of ethical misconduct be discovered prior to publication.

Authors’ Responsibilities

Authors submitting research articles to Corporate Management Review warrant the below criteria:

• Their research work is original;
• They must follow international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy, and human protection;
• They should indicate explicitly all sources that supported the research work;
• They must give due acknowledgement to all of those who have had contributions to the research work;
• They should immediately inform the editor of any obvious mistakes in their accepted or published article and cooperate closely with the editor in correction or retraction of the article;
• The work is not under consideration by any other journal;
• The work does not include fraudulent, defamatory or statements against the law;
• It is necessary to reference their own published work related to their new submission and avoid self-plagiarism.
• Permission has been cleared for any third party material included;
• The work does not include references without academic justification;
• Written “proof of consent” has been obtained for any named people or organizations;
• The work does not contain any fabricated data;
• Authorship must be clearly clarified prior to submission and that no one has been denied credit as an author or ‘gifted’ authorship.
• All conflicts of interest (e.g., a personal interest in the outcomes of the research, financial support for research) must be declared by the author, editor or reviewer.
• Corporate Management Review reserves the legitimate right to withdraw and rescind any accepted article should a case of ethical misconduct be discovered prior to publication.

The Reviewer’s Responsibilities

  The reviewer who feels unqualified to review the assigned articles or affirms that he or she is unable to complete the review before the deadline should inform the editor of these issues in a timely manner. The reviewer should keep the submitted article as highly confidential. The article must not be discussed with or disclosed to others. The reviewer should notify the editor and recuse himself or herself from reviewing the assigned article if there is a conflict of interest. Specifically, the reviewer must avoid reviewing any submitted article authored or coauthored by a person with whom the reviewer has a close personal or academic relationship for the purpose of reducing reviewing biases.

  Personal criticism or insult of the author must be avoided. The reviewer should do his/her best to conduct an objective review. The reviewer should immediately notify the editor of any similarities between the article under review and another research article either published previously or under submission to anther journal. The reviewer should contact the editor as soon as he/she comes across an article containing falsified data or plagiarized contents.