Journal of Global Business Research and Practice

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Article types

JGBRP welcomes papers that are conceptual, theoretical, empirical and review papers, as well as essays, research & teaching briefs, case studies, and dialogues and commentaries.

  • Conceptual and theoretical papers without empirical studies should develop new theories or conceptual frameworks.
  • Empirical papers should test, extend, or build theory and develop new knowledge for practice.
  • Review papers should critically review and evaluate the current research and knowledge in the global business discipline.
  • Essays can be short pieces of papers to make new thoughts, arguments, provocative ideas, and critical reflections.
  • Research & Teaching Briefs can be reports of currently completed research or teaching experiences/ experiments, which would be important to advance the thoughts and education in the field of global business.
  • Case studies can provide an intensive and systematic investigation into a particular entity or research object. These studies can focus on a single case or multiple cases.
  • Dialogues and Commentaries can provide industry practitioners with the opportunity to engage in public conversations and debates on global business issues.

Word count limit:

  • Conceptual, Theoretical, Empirical and Review papers: 7000 words.
  • Essays: 5000 words.
  • Research & Teaching Briefs, Case Studies, Dialogues & Commentaries: 3000 words.

Submission requirements

  • JGBRP employs a double-anonymous (aka double-bind) peer review model for possible consideration of publication, with reviewers invited by the journal editor. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via Scholastica as a Microsoft Word Document. Authors should ensure that their manuscript file should have any identifying information removed prior to submission. Author information will be added after the manuscript is accepted for publication.
  • All authors should be aware of the importance of presenting content that is based on their own research and expressed in their own words. JGBRP welcomes submissions for consideration that are original; by completing the submission, authors automatically agree to the statement that the manuscript has not been published previously or is currently under consideration or review elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with any and all costs which JGBRP incurs, and their manuscripts will not be published.
  • If there is any considerable overlap with another paper, this must be cited in the article and mentioned on submission. Furthermore, any potential ethical misconduct, such as verbatim copying, paraphrasing, re-using parts of a work without attribution, self-plagiarism, re-publication of original work, or any other instances of plagiarism, should be avoided at all costs.
  • All articles submitted to JGBRP are checked for plagiarism on submission; if clear plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) is identified, the article will be rejected. Also, submitted articles with content that infringes copyright may be rejected if the problematic sections cannot be removed.
  • Authors who wish to reproduce a figure or table from a previous copyrighted publication are responsible for obtaining the permission of copyright holders and for clearly referencing the original source. Figures that were previously published under a creative commons license may be reused under the condition of the specific license that applies to those figures.
  • Author names and contact information are provided during the submission process. Please In the list of authors, include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the manuscript should be listed in the acknowledgements) AND exclude anyone who has not contributed to the manuscript, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.
  • The author, who submits the manuscript via Scholastica, will be the corresponding author and an active email address for that person is required during submission and follow-up correspondence.
  • It may take the Scholastica system several minutes to process the manuscript; please be patient during the submission process.
  • To submit your manuscript to a special issue, please include the name of the special issue, as a subtitle.
  • Any potential conflict(s) of interest must be declared upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how best to proceed.
  • Prior to article submission, please ensure that written permission to use any material in your manuscript, which has been created by a third party, has been applied for and received. Please note, any article that still has permissions pending cannot be published.
  • If you want to include biographies and acknowledgements, please save them in a separate Microsoft Word document and upload the file with your submission. Where they are included, a brief professional biography of not more than 100 words should be supplied for each named author.

Manuscript Format

  • Use MS Word (with .docx file extension), 12 pt Times New Roman font, double spacing except for references at the end of the manuscript, which should be single space on letter size (8.5”x11”) paper.
  • The text alignment should be justified with top and bottom margins equal to 1 inch, and right and left margins equal to 0.83 inch.
  • Since JGBRP has a global business focus, the title, abstract and the manuscript file should be written to make this link obvious.
  • A concisely-worded title should be provided that is devoid of jargon and abbreviations.
  • Abstract should be concise (no more than 200 words).
  • The manuscript should include 4-6 keywords that capture the principal topics of the manuscript.
  • Insert or embed tables, figures, or exhibits after they are cited in the body of the manuscript within the margins with heading/titles in centered capitalized bold letters. Use the abbreviation, such as “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. Please allow 350 words for each figure or table in the total word count.
  • Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using a right tab stop. Use “equation (1)” when they are a part of the sentence.
  • Footnotes should not be included in the paper.

Manuscript Reference Style Guide

All references in the manuscript submitted to JGBRP must be formatted using the APA (7th edition) style. Authors may use reference management software, such as EndNote, to format references to the correct style. Please ensure you check all your citations for completeness, accuracy, and consistency. References to other publications in the text should be as follows:

At the end of the manuscript, please supply a reference list in alphabetical order using the style guide provided below. Where a DOI is available, this should be included at the end of the reference.

  • Book: Surname, initials (year), title of book, publisher, place of publication. e.g., Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
  • Book chapter: Surname, initials (year), “chapter title”, editor’s surname, initials (Ed.), title of book, publisher, place of publication, page numbers. e.g., Calabrese, F.A. (2005), “The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum”, Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp.15-20.
  • Journal article: Surname, initials (year), “title of article”, journal name, volume issue, page numbers. e.g., Kelley, S.W., Hoffman, D. and Davis, M.A., “A Typology of Retail Failures and Recoveries”, Journal of Retailing, 69(4), 1993, 429-452.
  • Published conference proceedings: Surname, initials (year of publication), “title of paper”, in editor’s surname, initials (Ed.), title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, publisher, place of publication, page numbers. e.g., Wilde, S. and Cox, C. (2008), “Principal factors contributing to the competitiveness of tourism destinations at varying stages of development”, in Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Patiar A., & Ternel, M. (Ed.s), CAUTHE 2008: Where the ‘bloody hell’ are we?, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld, pp.115-118.
  • Unpublished conference proceedings: Surname, initials (year), “title of paper”, paper presented at {name of conference}, {date of conference}, {place of conference}, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date). e.g., Aumueller, D. (2005), “Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki”, paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 28 June 2017).
  • Newspaper articles: Surname, initials (year), “article title”, newspaper, date, page numbers. e.g., Smith, A. (2008), “Money for old rope”, Daily News, 21 January, pp.1, 3-4.
  • Electronic sources (if available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as the date that the resource was accessed): Surname, initials (year), “title of electronic source”, available at: persistent URL (accessed date month year). e.g., Weida, S. and Stolley, K. (2013), “Developing strong thesis statements”, available at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/1/ (accessed 20 January 2021)

Editorial and Peer Review Process

  • Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, they may choose to decline or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn’t fit the journal aims and scope, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too low.
  • If the manuscript is deemed suitable for further consideration, it will be sent it to at least two independent referees for double anonymous peer review. After the reviewers provided their feedback, the editor may decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or decline the manuscript.
  • While reviewing timelines may vary, the goal for a JGBRP submission to have the first decision in 1-2 months.

Publication details

  • After a manuscript has gone through peer review and been accepted for publication, the timeframe the author can expect for publication turnaround, from submission to publication, is usually 3-4 months, depending on the copy-editing and revision work needed from the author, additional files required by the journal.
  • OA Publishing as sponsored by Academy of Global Business Research and Practice (AGBRP).