STATEMENT OF ETHICS AND NEGLIGENCE

Journal of Management and Business Studies (JM&BS) bases its editorial processes on the ethical code of the Committee for Ethics in Publications (COPE)

Editor:

- Ensure the selection of highly qualified external reviewers to the editorial committee of the journal and the Autonomous University of Chile, as well as with the least possible bias.
- Evaluate exclusively on the basis of the scientific merit of the content, without discrimination of any kind (ethnic, political, economic, institutional, etc.).
- Do not disclose information regarding articles received to persons outside the editorial process.
Maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, their authors and reviewers, guaranteeing the anonymity of the process.
- Not to use the contents of articles for own research without the express consent of the authors.
- Strictly comply with published times for the editorial process and maximum a number of lag between acceptance and publication, that is, no accepted article can remain as unpublished two issues in a row.

Reviewers:

- Conduct a critical, constructive and honest review of the scientific quality of the article received.
- Inform the editor in case of conflicts of interest, refusing to carry out the review for possible bias.
- Decline to carry out an assessment if it does not correspond to your area of knowledge or specialization.
- Evaluate the work within the established deadline, immediately informing the editor in case of impossibility of fulfillment at the time of receiving the request.
- Consider each manuscript assigned as confidential, these texts may not be discussed with other people without the express consent of the editor.
- Evaluate in an objective manner, without making personal judgements about the authors of contributions.
- Justify their valuations according to the standard established by JM&BS.
- Notify editors if substantial parts of the work have already been published or are under review for another publication.
- Indicate precisely the bibliographical references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author.
- Inform the editor of any similarity or overlap of the manuscript with other published works.
- Consider information obtained during the peer review process as confidential, and may not be used for personal purposes.

Authors:

- Submit an original work, which does not contain parts of other authors or other fragments of works without the corresponding reference.
- Present truthful and unaltered data.
- Do not publish articles in which the same results are repeated in more than one scientific journal, nor submit a manuscript simultaneously in more than one journal.
- Provide in a rigorous manner the indication of sources and contributions mentioned in the article.
- Include those who have made a real contribution to the article, ranking the authors according to their level of responsibility and involvement in the document.
- Do not include other authors in the editorial process.
- Make available sources or data on which the research was based, in case of a duly justified request from the editor.
- Explicitly state that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or proposed interpretations, and indicate any funding of agencies and/or projects from which the research article is derived.