Conflict of Interest

Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis Indonesia requires all parties involved in the publication process—authors, reviewers, and editors—to transparently declare any potential conflicts of interest to ensure the integrity, objectivity, and unbiased nature of the scholarly record, adhering strictly to the COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

1. Author Responsibilities and Disclosures

All authors submitting a manuscript must explicitly disclose any financial, personal, or professional relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their research, as mandated by the COPE Core Practices on Competing Interests.
Examples of potential conflicts include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. These must be clearly stated in a dedicated "Declaration of Competing Interests" section within the manuscript, fulfilling the transparency requirements set by the COPE Guidelines on transparent reporting. If no conflict of interest exists, the authors must explicitly state: "The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article."

2. Reviewer Responsibilities

Invited peer reviewers must immediately notify the editorial board and decline the invitation to review a manuscript if they have any competing interests resulting from competitive, collaborative, or personal relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the paper, in strict accordance with the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
Furthermore, reviewers must treat the manuscript as a confidential document and must not use unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research advantage without the author's explicit written consent, as stipulated by COPE's standards for reviewer conduct and confidentiality.

3. Editorial Responsibilities

Editors and editorial board members are required to completely recuse themselves from handling or making editorial decisions on manuscripts in which they have a financial, personal, or professional conflict of interest, ensuring that the peer-review process remains entirely objective as dictated by the COPE Core Practices.
If an editor submits a manuscript to the journal as an author, the peer review and editorial decision process will be managed independently by a different editor or guest editor who has no conflict of interest, aligning with the COPE guidelines for managing editorial conflicts.

4. Handling Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest

If a conflict of interest is suspected or brought to the journal’s attention by a reader, reviewer, or third party after a manuscript has been published (or during the review process), the editorial board will follow the established COPE Flowcharts for handling undisclosed conflicts of interest to thoroughly and fairly investigate the matter.
If an undisclosed conflict of interest is proven to have significantly compromised the research findings, interpretation, or the integrity of the review process, the journal will take appropriate corrective actions—which may include publishing an erratum, a formal expression of concern, or a full retraction—in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines.