Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management aims to foster leading scientific research on international strategic business management. It provides a central and independent forum for the critical evaluation and dissemination of research and to publish the highest quality research with evaluation, evidence and conclusions that are relevant to strategic management while engaging strategic management scholars and practitioners. Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management places a strong emphasis on both knowledge and practice, facilitating the exchange of ideas and discoveries on research issues. The journal is intended to give both an academic and practical focus, reflecting the trends, interests in on going strategic initiatives, phenomenon related to business strategic management.

This journal topic covers scientific publications related to business, strategic management, organizational behaviour, and international management.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted will go through a rigorous evaluation process with a system of double-blind peer review by selected reviewers by the Editorial Board. Reviewers appointed under expertise under the subject matter. Review process will require 2-3 months. Based on the reviewers’ comments and recommendations, the Editorial Board will decide whether the manuscript is accepted without revision, accepted with revisions required, or rejected. Authors will be given the opportunity to make revisions before resubmitting the revised manuscript. The Editorial Board will then process and do a final review, reporting to the Editor-in-Chief, before finalizing the approved list of articles to be published in these journals.

 

Publication Frequency

Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management is published by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Pelita Harapan.  The aim of Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management is to provide original research articles related to key concepts and theories in the strategic management field. There are two issues published each year, in April and September. Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management provides a forum for independent research and analysis on business, strategy, and management. Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management seeks to reflect a range of views from within the scholarly strategic studies, promote a better understanding of strategic thinking on contemporary national and international themes.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.  This access is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Author Fees and Publication Charges Policy

This journal does not charge any author processing fees or article submission fees. There are no costs that the author is required to pay.

 

Author Self-Archiving Policy

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites and institutional or funder repositories after publication. The final published PDF version should be used and bibliographic details that credit the publication in this journal should be included.

 

Competing Interest Policy

A competing interest is anything that interferes with, or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with, the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of research or non-research articles" (with acknowledgement and thanks to PLoS).

Competing interests can be financial or non-financial, professional, or personal. Competing interests can arise in relationship to an organization or another person.

Declaring all potential competing interests is a requirement and is integral to the transparent reporting of research.

1) Authors must declare all relevant competing interests for consideration during the review process.

2) Editors (professional or academic, paid or unpaid) and reviewers must declare their own competing interests and if necessary recuse themselves from involvement in the assessment of a paper.

3) Anyone who comments on or rates published papers in Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management must declare their competing interests at the time of posting their comments and/or rating.

 

Complaints Policy

Complaints should be sent via e-mail to the publishing team Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management Editor at milestone.journal@uph.edu.  In your complaint, please clearly describe the nature, circumstances, and subject of the complaint.  All complaints will be addressed promptly following the best practice in the ethics of scholarly journal publishing.

 

Open Access

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.  This access is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access

 

Copyright Policy

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website). The final published PDF should be used and bibliographic details that credit the publication in this journal should be included.

 

Require Authors to Clear 3rd Party Copyright for Online Use

There will be a disclosure agreement that needs to be signed by all authors who submitted the journal article.

 

Publication Ethics and Misconduct Policy

Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management and its editors will take reasonable "steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.

In no case shall Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management or its editors "encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place." In the event that we are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article, we will follow COPE's Guidelines for dealing with allegations. [With acknowledgement and thanks to DOAJ.]

 

Plagiarism Policy

As already stated in the above Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management and its editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where plagiarism has occurred. Editors and reviewers will use free plagiarism screening tools such as the below to assist in this.

In no case shall Milestone: Journal of Strategic Management or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowling allow such misconduct to take place." In the event that we are made aware of any allegation of plagiarism relating to a published article, we will follow COPE's Guidelines for dealing with allegations. [With acknowledgement and thanks to DOAJ.]