Journal of Administrative and Business Studies



ISSN:  2414-309X (Online) ISSN:  2519-0407 (Print)
DOI: 10.20474
Key Title: Journal of administrative and business studies
Abbreviated Key Title: J. adm. bus. stud.
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Editor-in-Chief : Professor Dr. Usman Raja
Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Canada
  • Journal of Administrative and Business Studies (JABS) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes six issues in a year. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research, in both quantitative and qualitative domains, that have a significant impact on business and management practices. Considering the interdisciplinary nature of the management concepts, practices, processes and theories in the real business scenarios, this unique outlet provides opportunity to those research attempts which mainly focus on the impact of business and management research on the business community in general. The journal publishes original articles with promising ideas or novel perspectives on existing research in the areas such as international business, innovation, management studies, organizational theory, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior and consumer studies.

    Aim and Scope

    Journal of Administrative and Business Studies (JABS) is a recognized multidisciplinary and open access journal in the field of business studies. JABS strives for inclusivity and global reach based on the interdisciplinary nature of business research. The wider and focused interdisciplinary scope of the journal creates a perfect environment to foster connections between management theories and innovative practices across all areas of business and management in local and multinational business organizations. JABS publishes innovative empirical and conceptual articles which are interdisciplinary in nature and use novel methodologies to explore numerous concepts with each domain of business and their linkages to other domains. Specifically, the journal encourages submissions that borrow theories from multiple disciplines and use a variety of methodologies (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mix-method) to investigate interesting ideas within business and management. JABS considers original research and review articles in the following domains:

    • Organizational behavior theories and empirical insights related to business landscape.
    • Strategic management theories, structures, decision making and process focusing on business enterprises in general.
    • Human resource management practices and cross cultural studies.
    • Applied psychology and related domains providing solutions to the business enterprises.
    • Consumer behavior and practices which are linked to sustainable competitive advantage for the local and international business organizations.
    • Marketing theories and practices which are bridged in interdisciplinary business decision making and choice of strategies.
    • Accounting & Finance related studies which use interdisciplinary theoretical (e.g., such as behavioral finance, behavioral economics) and methodological approaches (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mix-method) to address business related issues.

    JABS is the official journal of Academic Research and Solutions Sociedad (ARS) Barcelona Catalonia, Spain which is a reputable organization striving for business research excellence.

  • PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

    Editors hold the following responsibilities:

    • All the steps involved in evaluation should be strictly adhered to so that the eminence of the research can be maintained. Any decision concerning the acceptance, rejection, major and minor revision of any paper should be made on the basis of the standard quality guidelines of the respective journal.
    • When any paper is being submitted, author should guarantee the authorities that the paper has not been submitted for getting published in any other journal. On the same lines, Editor is also not allowed to submit the work under review with any other person or institution except with the consent of the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers and the publisher.
    • The sole criterion of evaluation should be the eminence of research used in the paper and should not be biased in any sense.

    Reviewers need to fulfill the following duties:

    • The effective blinded peer review process facilitates the editors to improve the paper quality and take accurate decisions regarding every submission.
    • It is important that all the submissions considered for peer review should be taken as the secret essays and editor needs to keep them confidential throughout the process.
    • If the concerned reviewer is not able to review the manuscript within the given deadline, it should be brought to the editor’s knowledge. Even if the reviewer does not have the skills and expertise for manuscript review, it should be duly informed to the editor.
    • The reviewer should check for the fact that the works cited in the paper are actually backed by the corresponding research works. It is the duty of the reviewer to make sure that the materials given in the article are backed by authentic citations and should make out any work not considered by the author. If reviewer doubts the submitted manuscript to be plagiarized, then he/she must apprise the editor of this information.
    • Author should not be targeted with personal critique. Referees should support the author’s efforts through their comments.

    Authors should be aware of the following facts:

    • The manuscripts that are found to be plagiarized above the minimum tolerable level will be rejected before entering into the review phase. The concerned personnel should reconfirm the manuscript’s originality by meticulously checking the document for any trace of plagiarism.
    • Author should guarantee that the submitted manuscript is not being considered for publication in any other journal. It will be considered against ethics if any manuscript is found to be under review with more than one journal.
    • Authors should explicitly mention the reactions of the chemicals, procedures or equipment utilized in the research if any.
    • Only the real contributor of the paper can claim to be the owner of the manuscript submitted. Authors’ names should be stated according to their contributions in the paper. Author should only add the names of those people who were actually involved in bringing together of the corresponding manuscript.

    REVIEW POLICY

    Journal of Administrative and Business Studies (JABS) operates a strictly anonymous peer- review process in which the reviewers’ names are withheld from the author(s) and, the authors’ name from the reviewer.
    Desk Review: On receiving a manuscript, the editor conducts a preliminary screening to assess the degree to which the manuscript fits the criteria in JABS’s ‘Aims’ and ‘Mission statement. Submissions that fail to satisfy our criteria may be returned to the authors either as a desk reject or desk edit. In case of desk edit, the authors are asked to edit the manuscript and then resubmit.
    Review process: For each manuscript that passes the desk review, the editor assigns an action editor (either him- or herself or an associate editor or a guest editor) and two reviewers. The manuscript’s action editor sends the manuscript for review to two reviewers who are specialists in their fields. After receiving the reviewers’ comments on the manuscript, the action editor makes publication decisions about it. However, these decisions are made in conjunction with recommendations provided by the reviewers. All submissions are blind reviewed; manuscripts prepared in a way that compromises blind review may be returned for revision prior to being submitted to the reviewers.
    Review Time: The journal strives to provide developmental and constructive feedback to authors within approximately five weeks. The peer-review process usually takes four weeks depending upon the manuscript size and availability of the editorial members. However, the initial quality of the manuscript can dramatically influence both the efficiency and effectiveness of review process. The better developed a manuscript and the ideas it contains, the easier it will be to review, and provide timely feedback to authors. We therefore encourage authors to ask scholarly colleagues to review their work prior to submission to the JABS.

    AUTHORSHIP

    To give appropriate credit to each author, the individual contributions of authors should be specified in the manuscript. An 'author' is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study. According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines, to qualify as an author one should have:

    • made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
    • been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
    • given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
    • agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
    Changes to Authorship

    Authors should be careful while listing and ordering author before submission. They should provide final list of authors at the time of manuscript submission. All the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author should be confirmed before submission. Once submitted any changes will be done only if authorized by the editor of JABS. On request to such changes author need to give the reason for changes in the author list and written confirmation from all the authors. Consent of author that has been added or removed will be necessary. Such changes are considered by the editor in only exceptional cases. In case the manuscript has been published such requests are suspended or if approved by the editor will result in a corrigendum.

    CODE OF CONDUCT

    • The Editor ought to make sure that all articles accepted for publication are assessed by minimum two reviewers
    • The Editor shouldn't create choices concerning manuscripts regarding that they'll have a conflict of interest. In such instances, a senior member of the Editorial Board ought to be appointed to assume responsibility for overseeing peer-review and creating choices concerning acceptance or rejection.
    • All of the responsibilities ought to be carried exactly among the timeframe.
    • Just in case of any delays, there ought to be a right away consultation with the authors.
    • The whole method ought to be clear and within the structured flow.
    • Though the Editor could publish in their own journal, a senior member of the Editorial Board is appointed to assume responsibility of overseeing the peer-review method.
    • Editors ought to give knowledgeable service to authors. Correspondence ought to be handled in a very timely and respectful manner, and economical and thorough peer review dispensed.
    • Systems ought to be in situ to make sure editorial workers’ absences don't end in a reduced service to authors.
    • Knowledgeable service to authors is anticipated.

    CONFLICT OF INTEREST

    Public trust in the scientific process and the credibility of published articles are dependent partially on the fair and transparent handling of conflict of interest while processes like planning, implementation, writing, peer review, editing, and publication of scientific work are going on. A conflict of interest arises when professional judgment about a primary interest (such as patients’ welfare or the validity of research) might get affected by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Discernments of conflict of interest hold the same importance as the actual conflict of interest. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership or options, honoraria, patents, and paid expert testimony) are the types of conflicts of interest that can be spotted easily and directly weaken the credibility of the journal, the authors, and the entire discipline. However, conflicts can arise due to other causes as well, such as personal relationships or enmities, academic competition, and intellectual dogmas. Authors need to be wary while signing any agreement with the study sponsors, whether for-profit or nonprofit, as such agreements can limit author’s access to the complete study’s data or their freedom to analyze and interpret the data and present the manuscripts independently according to their own will.
    1. Participants
    All people playing a part in the peer-review and publication process i.e., authors, peer reviewers, editors, and editorial board members of journals, should always keep their individual conflicts of interest in mind while they perform their roles during the article review and publication and are liable to openly state the relationships that can be a cause of conflicts of interest.
    a. Authors
    Authors, while submitting their manuscripts of any given type or format, should ensure that they disclose all the financial and personal relationships that can lead to conflict or bias later on. The ICMJE has formulated a Form for Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest for offering standard Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. The ICMJE member journals facilitate authors with this form while disclosing conflict of interest, and the ICMJE also promotes the practice for the other journals to follow.
    b. Peer Reviewers
    Reviewers, when checking a manuscript critically, should be interviewed whether they have any conflicts of interest that can make the review process difficult. Reviewers should openly discuss with the editors all the possible means of conflicts of interest leading to biased judgement for the manuscript, and should avoid taking the responsibility of reviewing those manuscripts that exhibit higher risk of biased judgment. Reviewers should not violate the author’s rights over the manuscripts and avoid using the manuscript’s content for their own interest.
    c. Editors and Journal Staff
    Editors who give the final verdict for the manuscripts should refrain from continuing the process if conflicts of interest exist or relationships leading to potential conflicts regarding the articles under consideration have been disclosed. Other editorial staff members who play a part in the editorial decisions must let the editors know their present financial interests or other conflicts (that might affect the editorial judgments) and should avoid participating in the decision that has a visible conflict of interest. Editorial staff must never exploit the content of manuscripts for their personal interest. Editors should release regular disclosure statements about possible conflicts of interests concerning the obligations of journal staff. Same procedures apply to the guest editors.
    2. Reporting Conflicts of Interest
    Articles should have, at the time of publishing, statements or supporting documents, such as the conflict of interest form, proclaiming: – Authors’ conflicts of interest; and – sources of support for the work, including sponsor names with descriptions of the role of those sources if any in study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; report compilation; the decision of report submission for publication; or a statement affirming no association of the supporting source; and – evidence of authors’ access to the study data, while highlighting the nature and extent of access, particularly its on-going nature. For bolstering the above statements or documents, editors may require the authors of a study having a funding sponsor with a proprietary or financial interest to get a statement formally signed, such as “I had full access to all of the data in this study and I take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.” Author Agreement Form

    COPYRIGHTS

    • Copyright on any open access article in a journal published by TAF Publishing is retained by the author(s). Authors grant TAF Publishing a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
    • The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.

    Exceptions to copyright policy
    There may be exceptions concerning copyright and licensing for articles which were previously published under policies that are different from the above. For instance, different licensing conditions may then apply. In all such cases, however, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions.

    RETRACTIONS AND CORRECTIONS

    Should any paper be removed from a Journal that has already been revealed, that paper will be removed from the PDF version of the Journal in such the way that it doesn't alter the page numbers of different papers revealed in the same issue of the Journal.
    Corrections that require to be created to associate already revealed Journal are going to be handled in a manner that it doesn't have an effect on any of the other papers revealed therein issue. Corrected versions of the Journal are going to be created accessible on the Journal website, along with all the applicable indices.

    APPEAL AND COMPLAINTS

    The below procedure applies to appeals to editorial selections, complaints concerning failure of processes like long delays in handling papers and complaints concerning publication ethics. The criticism should be handled by the Editor-in-Chief(s) answerable for the journal and/or the Editor who handled the paper. If they're the topic of the criticism, please approach the in-house publication contact. (Please check the contacts page on the journal homepage. If no publication contact is known, send the question to contact.jabs@tafpublications.com)
    Complaint about scientific content, e.g., an appeal against rejection
    The Editor-in-Chief or Handling Editor considers the authors’ argument, the reviewer reports and decides whether or not

    • The choice to reject ought to stand;
    • Another freelance opinion is needed
    • The appeal ought to be thought of.
    • The litigator is educated of the choice with a proof if acceptable. Decisions on appeals are final and new submissions take priority over appeals.

    Complaint concerning processes, e.g., time taken to review
    The Editor-in-Chief along with the Handling Editor (where appropriate) and/or in-house contact (where appropriate) can investigate the matter. The litigator is going to be given acceptable feedback. Feedback is provided to relevant stakeholders to enhance processes and procedures.

    OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVING POLCIY

    Library Catalogue
    Biblioteca Nacional de España

    Journal of Administrative and Business Studies is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research published in JABS. JABS is keeping digital archive with Biblioteca Nacional de España (digital library of the National Library of Spain).
    JABS also offer its authors to make their research publically accessible, free from payment and any embargo period through Green Open Access Policy.
    The Green Route – Open Access Archiving Policy
    Authors have the opportunity of turning their articles into Open Access by using the Green route for archival of their articles free of charge. Authors having their work published in subscription journal can avail this opportunity by depositing version 2 of their article i.e. the one accepted for publication in their respective institution’s repository.

    • Copyright of the work remains with the author.
    • Total discretion of version 1 of the article that is submitted to the journal remains with the author.
    • After acceptance of article for publication, version 2 or the accepted version can be submitted anywhere by the author e.g., on a personal website, department’s website or the repository of the respective institution with no further limitations.
    • Article’s version 2 is not allowed to be submitted to any repository other than the ones specified above. These exclusions include another institution’s repository or a subject repository. This restriction applies until 12 months after first publication of the article in the journal.
    • Authors can provide the version 3 i.e., the published version to research colleagues or keep as their own teaching aid, ensuring that such delivery is not commercial in any sense.
    • Version 3 can be used in a book being written by the author or can be edited as desired once publication in the journal is confirmed.
    • Version 3 is not allowed to be submitted to any website or any repository without formal consent of TAF Publishing.
    • Link to the appropriate DOI needs to be added in all the posts having the concerned article to ensure the readers are directed straight to the published version of the article on TAF Publishing Journals (http://tafpublications.com).
  • Information for Contributors

    Journal of Administrative and Business Studies (JABS) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the field of business. In contrast to other journals in business education and practice, the JABS is unique in a sense that the journal takes interest in interdisciplinary studies. We publish cutting edge research that transcends across different fields of business. Before you submit, we indorse familiarizing yourself with the following details about the journal;

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  • All new manuscripts should be submitted electronically. Files should be submitted in Microsoft Word format. All manuscripts must adhere to the JABS Style Guide.
    Electronic submissions should be uploaded to the Journal of Administrative and Business Studies.

    Submit here

    Alternatively, you can send your manuscript to the editor at editor.jabs@tafpublications.com

  • Editor-in-Chief

    Professor Dr. Usman Raja
    Professor of OB & HR
    Goodman School of Business,
    Brock University,
    Canada

    Editor

    Muhammad Abbas
    National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
    editor.jabs@tafpublications.com

    Associate Editor

    Mostafa Mohamad
    Salford Business School,
    University of Salford Manchester,
    UK

    Editorial Office

    Laura Daniel
    editorialoffice.jabs@tafpublications.com

    Editorial Advisory Board

    M. Abu Saleh
    University of Canberra, Australia

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Northeastern State University, USA

    Zhan Su
    Laval University, Canada

    Usman Raja
    Brock University, Canada

    Elspeth Mckay
    RMIT Schol of Business, IT and Logistics, Australia

    Ahmed Ali
    King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

    Editorial Board

    M. Abu Saleh
    University of Canberra, Australia

    Elspeth Mckay
    RMIT Schol of Business, IT and Logistics, Australia

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Northeastern State University, USA

    Zhan Su
    Laval University, Canada

    K. M. Zahidul Islam
    Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

    Imran Khan
    Harbin Institute of Technology, China

    Nosheen Sarwat
    Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan

    Farzana Quoquab
    Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

    Erkan Sezgin
    Anadolu University, Turkey

    Chun-Liang Chen
    National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

    Rajendra Vishwanath Nargundkar
    Indian Institute of Management, India

    Raza S. Khan
    The Superior College Lahore, Pakistan

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    Published online: 21 August 2023

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