Conflict of Interest Policy

Conflict of Interest Policy

Jurnal Ekonomi, Bisnis & Entrepreneurship (e-Journal)

The Jurnal Ekonomi, Bisnis & Entrepreneurship (e-Journal) is dedicated to sustaining the highest levels of scientific integrity, transparency, and impartiality throughout the scholarly publication lifecycle. A conflict of interest (or competing interest) emerges when institutional, academic, commercial, financial, or personal affiliations possess the potential to inappropriately bias—or create the perception of biasing—the execution, peer review, or articulation of academic research. To preserve academic credibility, it is obligatory for all stakeholders involved—authors, reviewers, and editorial staff—to transparently declare any existing or potential competing interests.

1. Directives for Authors Authors must openly disclose any professional, personal, or monetary associations that could be construed as influencing their methodology, data analysis, or interpretative conclusions.

  • Financial Disclosures: Authors are required to report all financial support, including research grants, consulting fees, employment arrangements, honoraria, stock ownership, or patent applications directly related to the submitted manuscript.

  • Non-Financial Disclosures: Authors must also articulate non-monetary competing interests, such as institutional affiliations, intense academic rivalries, ideological commitments, or personal relationships that might compromise scholarly objectivity.

  • Sponsorship and Funding Transparency: All external funding bodies must be explicitly acknowledged. Authors must precisely outline the sponsor’s involvement (or lack thereof) in the study's design, data gathering, analytical phases, manuscript drafting, and the ultimate decision to publish.

  • Formal Declaration: A definitive "Conflict of Interest Statement" must be systematically placed within the manuscript, immediately preceding the reference list.

2. Directives for Peer Reviewers Reviewers are fundamental to preserving academic validity and must operate with absolute neutrality.

  • Obligatory Recusal: Invited reviewers must promptly decline peer-review requests if they recognize any financial, personal, collaborative, or institutional conflicts with the authors, affiliated institutions, or funding sponsors.

  • Manifestations of Conflict: Disqualifying conditions include recent joint publications, active research partnerships, mentor-mentee dynamics, or direct commercial rivalries with the submitting authors.

  • Confidentiality and Non-Appropriation: Reviewers are strictly prohibited from exploiting any unpublished methodologies, data, or intellectual concepts encountered during the evaluation process for their own academic advancement, competitive advantage, or financial benefit.

3. Directives for the Editorial Board The editorial hierarchy bears the ultimate accountability for publication outcomes and must strictly adhere to unbiased decision-making.

  • Recusal Mandate: Editors must categorically withdraw from overseeing or adjudicating any manuscript where they hold a competing interest arising from collaborative, competitive, or personal ties to the authors or their respective institutions.

  • Transfer of Jurisdiction: In such scenarios, the manuscript’s administrative and evaluative oversight will be reassigned to an impartial Editorial Board member or an appointed guest editor.

  • Submissions by Editorial Staff: Should an editor or board member submit their own research to the Jurnal Ekonomi, Bisnis & Entrepreneurship (e-Journal), the manuscript will be subjected to an entirely independent, double-blind peer review coordinated by a different editorial associate. The submitting editor will be systematically denied access to the internal review logs, reviewer identities, and editorial deliberations regarding their own paper.

4. Resolution of Undisclosed Conflicts In the event that an undeclared competing interest is identified during the evaluative stages or post-publication:

  • The journal will launch a formal investigation, strictly adhering to the procedural flowcharts and ethical frameworks delineated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

  • The implicated parties will be afforded a formal opportunity to submit written justifications or clarifications regarding the omission.

  • Should the undisclosed conflict be deemed a substantial threat to the empirical validity or ethical standing of the manuscript, the Editor-in-Chief retains the absolute authority to publish a formal Corrigendum, an Expression of Concern, or an outright Retraction Notice, commensurate with the gravity of the ethical breach.