Publication Ethics
All manuscripts submitted to the "Innovative Marketing" Journal are double-blind peer reviewed. Limited Liability Company “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives” is the publisher of the Journal. The Company is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and follows Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The Journal is a member of COPE.
Research Ethics
Research Involving Human Subjects
Institutional Review Board Statement
When reporting on research that involves human subjects, human material, human tissues, or human data, authors must declare that the investigations were carried out following the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, which was revised in 2013. According to point 23 of this declaration, approval from the local Institutional Review Board (IRB) or another appropriate ethics committee must be obtained before undertaking the research to confirm that the study meets national and international guidelines. As a minimum, a statement including the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board must be stated in the ‘Institutional Review Board Statement’ Section of the article.
Example of an Institutional review board statement: “The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code) on [date of approval].”
For non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys, questionnaires, social media research), all participants must be fully informed whether their anonymity is assured, why the research is being conducted, how their data will be used, and if there are any risks involved in participating. As with all research involving humans, ethical approval from an appropriate ethics committee must be obtained prior to conducting the study. If ethical approval is not required, authors must either provide an exemption from the ethics committee or cite the local or national legislation that indicates ethics approval is not required for this type of study. When a study has been granted exemption, the name of the ethics committee that provided this should be stated in the ‘Institutional Review Board Statement’ Section with a full explanation for the rejection of ethical approval.
Informed Consent Statement
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data, or human tissue must include a statement of informed consent for participation in research. Verbal informed consent to participate in a study can be acceptable under some circumstances, such as in ethnographic studies. The authors must explain the rationale for using this kind of consent in the “Informed Consent Statement” Section. For verbal informed consent, a copy of the script used must be provided during the submission stage.
For all manuscripts that include identifying participant information (personal details, images, or videos relating to an individual person), written informed consent for the publication of these details must be obtained from patients/participants (or their relatives/guardians) before submitting to an MANDAR: Management Development and Applied Research Journal. A blank version of the form used to obtain permission (without the patient/participant names or signature) should be provided upon submission.
For the purposes of publishing in MANDAR: Management Development and Applied Research Journal, a consent, permission, or release form should include unlimited permission for publication in all formats in other works and products under open access license. To respect participants’ and any other individuals’ privacy, please do not send signed forms.
Private information identifying participants need not be included unless the identifiable materials are of relevance to the research. Participants initials or other personal identifiers must not appear in any images. Participant details must be anonymized as much as possible, e.g., do not mention specific age, ethnicity, or occupation where they are not relevant to the conclusions. Steps necessary to protect privacy may include de-identifying data, blocking portions of the database. Editors reserve the right to reject any submission that does not meet these requirements.
The Editorial Office reserves the right to request further documentation when necessary. The submitted manuscript will be scrutinized by the Editorial Office, and upon request, documentary evidence (signed consent forms and any related discussion documents from the ethics board) must be provided.
Example of an Informed Consent Statement:
- Informed consent for participation was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
- Informed consent for participation is not required as per local legislation (provide local legislation).
- Verbal informed consent was obtained from the participants.
- Verbal consent was obtained rather than written because (state the reason),
- Informed consent for publication was obtained from all identifiable human participants.
Citation Policy
Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing) the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained.
Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work.
Authors should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work.
Authors should not preferentially cite their own or their friends’, peers’, or institution’s publications.
Authors should not cite advertisements or advertorial material.
In accordance with COPE guidelines, we expect that “original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the appropriate citations.” This condition also applies to an author’s own work. COPE have produced a discussion document on citation manipulation with recommendations for best practice.