Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Original Research

This section is dedicated to rigorous empirical studies that advance management theory and business practice. We prioritize submissions that present novel datasets, innovative methodologies, and statistically robust findings. Authors must explicitly articulate their contribution to existing organizational literature, demonstrating how their work fills a critical research gap while offering actionable managerial implications. Manuscripts submitted to this section should range between 6,000 and 8,000 words, excluding references.

Review Article

We invite authoritative syntheses of the current state of business scholarship, including systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and bibliometric studies. Submissions should go beyond mere description; they must critically evaluate existing paradigms, resolve inconsistencies in prior findings, and construct a cohesive research agenda to structure the field. To allow for comprehensive depth, these manuscripts should generally fall between 7,000 and 10,000 words, excluding references.

Perspective

This section serves as a forum for conceptual papers and expert commentaries that challenge the status quo of management thought. We seek forward-looking arguments that propose new theoretical lenses, frameworks, or strategic models without the requirement for primary empirical data. Contributions should foster high-level debate on emerging trends and offer fresh insights into complex organizational phenomena, with a typical length of 3,000 to 5,000 words, excluding references.

Case Study

We welcome in-depth investigations of contemporary business problems, organizational interventions, and strategic implementations. Submissions must provide a rich contextual analysis that bridges the divide between academic theory and corporate reality. Authors are expected to distill generalizable "lessons learned" that offer transferrable value to practitioners and industry leaders. Manuscripts in this category are expected to be between 4,000 and 6,000 words, excluding references.

Editorial

Exclusively reserved for the EJBM Editors and Guest Editors, this section addresses the strategic direction of the journal and the broader business community. Editorials provide context for special issues, comment on evolving policy landscapes, or highlight significant developments in management science. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted, and contributions should not exceed 2,500 words, excluding references.

Privacy Statement

The editorial board and management of the Electronic Journal of Business and Management (EJBM) are committed to protecting the personal data and privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and all users of the journal website. This statement explains how personal data are collected, used, stored, shared, and protected in connection with the journal’s editorial, peer-review, publication, indexing, and communication activities.

1. Collection of Personal Data

The Electronic Journal of Business and Management (EJBM) may collect personal data that users voluntarily provide when registering on the journal website, submitting manuscripts, reviewing manuscripts, communicating with the editorial office, or interacting with published content. Such data may include names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, ORCID iDs where provided, country or region, manuscript submission details, reviewer comments, editorial correspondence, and publication metadata linked to submitted or published articles. EJBM collects only the personal data necessary to carry out legitimate scholarly publishing activities.

2. Purpose and Use of Personal Data

Personal data collected through the journal website will be used only for journal-related purposes, including:

Editorial Processing: To manage manuscript submission, editorial assessment, peer review, revision, copyediting, production, publication, and post-publication processes.
Communication: To contact authors, reviewers, editors, and readers regarding submissions, reviews, editorial decisions, publication updates, journal notices, and matters directly related to the journal’s scholarly activities.
Peer Review and Editorial Integrity: To support the confidentiality, accountability, transparency, and integrity of the peer-review and editorial decision-making process.
Publication Metadata: To publish author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs, abstracts, keywords, references, funding information, and other necessary article metadata for proper scholarly attribution, discoverability, citation, and indexing.
Indexing and Archiving: To share necessary publication metadata with indexing, abstracting, discovery, DOI registration, and archiving services.

3. Data Sharing and Third Parties

EJBM does not sell, rent, or disclose personal data for commercial marketing purposes. Personal data may be shared only where necessary for legitimate journal operations, including with editors, reviewers, authorised editorial staff, journal platform or website service providers, DOI registration agencies, indexing and abstracting services, plagiarism or similarity-checking services where applicable, digital preservation and archiving services, and publishing, typesetting, or production service providers where applicable. Any third-party access to personal data is limited to what is necessary for journal-related functions and must be handled in accordance with appropriate confidentiality and data protection standards.

4. Confidentiality of Peer Review

Reviewer identities, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and unpublished manuscript files are treated as confidential. Such information will not be disclosed except where required for editorial management, ethical investigation, legal obligation, or established journal policy. Authors must not attempt to identify anonymous reviewers where the journal operates anonymous or double-anonymous peer review. Reviewers must not share, use, or disclose unpublished manuscript content for personal or professional advantage.

5. Data Security

EJBM takes reasonable technical, administrative, and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Access to personal data is restricted to authorised editorial, technical, and administrative personnel who require such access to perform journal-related duties. While EJBM takes appropriate steps to protect personal data, no online system can guarantee absolute security. Users are encouraged to protect their login credentials and notify the journal immediately of any suspected unauthorised access.

6. Data Retention

Personal data will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil editorial, publishing, indexing, archiving, legal, ethical, and administrative purposes. Data connected to published articles may be retained as part of the permanent scholarly record. Data connected to rejected, withdrawn, or inactive submissions may be retained for a reasonable period for editorial accountability, research integrity, dispute resolution, and audit purposes, after which it may be deleted or anonymised where appropriate.

7. Individual Rights

Authors, reviewers, editors, and registered users may request to access the personal data held about them, correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data, update their profile information, withdraw from non-essential communications, or request deletion or restriction of personal data where this does not conflict with legal obligations, editorial integrity, peer-review records, publication ethics, indexing requirements, or the integrity of the published scholarly record. Requests should be submitted to: ejbm@apu.edu.my.

8. Published Record and Metadata

Once an article is published, author names, affiliations, article metadata, and other publication information form part of the scholarly record. EJBM may not remove or alter published metadata where doing so would compromise citation, indexing, publication integrity, or the reliability of the academic record. Corrections may be issued where necessary and in accordance with the journal’s editorial and publication ethics policies.

9. Use of Cookies and Website Analytics

The EJBM website may use cookies or similar technologies to support website functionality, user authentication, security, system performance, and usage analysis. Where analytics tools are used, EJBM will make reasonable efforts to ensure that data are collected and processed in a privacy-conscious manner. Users may manage or disable cookies through their browser settings, although some website functions may not operate properly if cookies are disabled.

10. Legal and Ethical Compliance

EJBM handles personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, publication ethics standards, and recognised scholarly publishing practices. The journal supports transparency, confidentiality, editorial independence, responsible data handling, and ethical management of the scholarly publishing process.

11. Changes to this Privacy Statement

EJBM may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes in journal operations, platform requirements, legal obligations, indexing standards, or scholarly publishing best practices. The updated version will be posted on the journal website with the date of revision.

Last updated: 5 January 2026
Contact: ejbm@apu.edu.my