Editorial Guidelines

GMBS upholds the highest standards of integrity to ensure that business research contributes ethically to environmental sustainability.

1. Submission and Initial Evaluation

• Scope: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainable Supply Chains, and Green Marketing.

• Plagiarism: Turnitin check with a 15% threshold is mandatory.

• Formatting: Submissions must follow management reporting standards, including sustainability declarations.

• Licensing: Shared under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

2. Peer Review Policy

• Fairness: A double-blind process ensures that neither institutional size nor geography influences publication.

• Speed: Reviewers are requested to submit reports within 2 to 4 weeks.

3. Editorial Decision-Making

• Decisions: Decisions prioritize research that offers innovative and scalable sustainable business solutions.

• Revision: Resubmissions must clearly outline the improvements made to address sustainability data.

4. Ethical Standards

• Corporate Ethics: Authors must avoid "greenwashing" and provide transparent methodology for environmental claims.

• Authorship: All authors must have made substantial contributions to the business analysis or theory.

5. Post-Publication Policy

• Durability: Digital archiving ensures that business strategy research remains available for future citation.

• Transparency: Any factual errors in reported corporate data will be corrected through formal Errata.