As Journal of the Bucak Business Administration Faculty, we continuously strive to protect the integrity of the published record by rigorously evaluating reported or suspected academic misconduct. In accordance with the principle of scientific ethics and integrity, we act impartially and make independent decisions when investigating such concerns. When evaluating potential cases of scientific misconduct, we adhere to legal procedures and observe the responsibility to disclose the results of investigations that may affect future research to the public as soon as possible. As Journal of the Bucak Business Administration Faculty, we strictly adhere to the policies (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines) set by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

Ethical Principles

For the Authors

• The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
• Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
• Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
• Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published  in full text anywhere.
• Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
• The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

• If manuscript is derived from a thesis or presented/published in another scientific activity, this should be notified to the journal.

• The text, figures and documents in the article should not violate the copyrights of other persons.

For the Reviewers:
• Reviewers should evaluate the studies of the authors from an honest, impartial and scientific perspective.
• The reviewers are responsible for keeping information about the study of the authors confidential.
• The reviewers should inform the editorial board when they encounter situations that do not comply with ethical rules, scientific perspectives and violate the rules of plagiarism in any study.

For the Editors
• Editors should make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process
• Editors should adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
• Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct
• Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct
• Editors should critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals
• Peer reviewers and authors should be stated what is expected of them
• Editors should adopt appropriate principles to manage conflicts of interest.

Publication Policy

The author(s) submitting an article to the Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty accepts ethical responsibilities in accordance with the PUBLICATION ETHICS. Each author is responsible for the content of his/her own article. Submission of the same article to different journals will not be accepted. Submission of content outside the scope of Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty will not be reviewed. All articles are expected to have original content. The manuscript must not have been published in full text anywhere before. If it has been published as an abstract, this should be reported to the journal. In addition, if it is derived from a thesis or presented/published in another scientific activity, this should also be notified to the journal, as in the case of studies published as abstracts. Authors are responsible for the writing quality of their articles.

Publication Review Period
The publication review process of the submitted articles is completed in about 3 months.

Publication Language
Turkish and English.

Publication Fee
Authors are not charged for the publication of the articles in our journal.

Plagiarism Checking
In our journal, iThendicate software is used to determine the similarity rate. For plagiarized manuscripts over 20%, the author should retrieve the manuscript for appropriate citation and correction.

Open Access Policy

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Open Access (OA) provides unlimited access and reuseability of publications online for free. Therefore, the open access creates the network for reaching the widest possible audience, sharing the entire papers and building upon them.

Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty provides open access by adopting the principle that making scientific research freely available to the public will increase the global sharing of knowledge. In this direction, Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty has signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Articles published in Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty are Open Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. For detailed information, you can visit the Open Access Policy and Copyright page of our journal.

Publication Process
Articles submitted to Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty are examined in a three-step process: "Preliminary Review", "Review" and "Editing". These processes are planned and implemented by the editorial board.
1- Preliminary Review Process
It is the general review made by the journal secretariat after the submission of the article by the author. In this context, the scope of the article, the suitability of the similarity ratio, the completion of the required documents, and the compliance of the article with the author guidelines are examined. According to examination, the authors are asked to compansate for shortcomings if their articles do not meet the criteria mentioned above. The articles meeting the preliminary review criteria are transferred to the review stage.

2- Review Process
In this process, the articles are forwarded to two referees who are experts in their field to be determined by the editorial board. During the review process “double-blind review method” is applied, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The referees inform the editorial board whether they can evaluate the work within 3 days after the article is sent to them. If the referee does not make a notification within the specified time or if he / she cannot evaluate it, a new referee is appointed for the study. The period given to referees for the review process is 15 days. At the end of this process, the referees can request it to be published as it is, give minor or major corrections or decide that it cannot be published.
Referees take into account the following criteria while making their decisions: The scientific quality of the article, its original contribution to the relevant discipline, compliance with the preparation systematic, compliance with scientific writing rules, consistency of title and content, the degree of benefiting from the literature, revealing the problem and the purpose of the study, the adequacy of the abstract prepared in both Turkish and English, comprehensibility of the language, the adequacy of the research method used, the understandability of the tables and figures added to the research, and inferring sufficient conclusions from the findings.
In cases when the referee requests a correction, the authors are expected to make changes in their study in line with the referee's comments and upload the study to the system as soon as possible. The referees examine the corrections made by the author and may decide whether they are appropriate or, if necessary, request corrections more than once. The corrected study is re-evaluated by the referees who want changes or corrections when necessary. In case of discrepancy in the referee reviews, the editorial board sends the study to another referee. If two referees report that the article is publishable then the articles are passed to the editing phase. On the other hand, getting negative reports from two referees leads to the rejection of the study. The editorial board decides on the publication of the studies in line with the referee opinions.
3- Editing Process
The typesetting and editing of articles is done during the editing process.

Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy

Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty is based on COPE's paper on the responsible and ethical use of AI and requires authors to declare their use of AI tools in an open and transparent manner.

Archieving Policy (LOCKSS)

Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty is using the LOCKSS archiving system. LOCKSS is a widely accepted practice in the field of digital preservation and more broadly to ensure the persistence of digital information. Based on the program used at Stanford University Libraries, the LOCKSS Program provides libraries and publishers with access to and preservation of persistent and authoritative digital content by providing low-cost, open source digital preservation tools. The LOCKSS Program (https://www.lockss.org/) is an open source, library-led digital preservation system based on the principle that "lots of copies keep stuff safe". The LOCKSS Program enhances libraries that use and support open source, peer-to-peer digital preservation software. The LOCKSS system gives librarians access to the e-content they subscribe to and restores library collections in the "LOCKSS box", essentially a digital bookshelf. The Global LOCKSS Network preserves today's e-journals and e-books for tomorrow's readers. The Global LOCKSS Network is a proven preservation approach that provides both libraries and publishers with a unique preservation approach.  It provides access to librarians' subscribed e-content and restores library collections. The Global LOCKSS Network protects the publisher's interest, redirecting all reader traffic to their website.  The Global LOCKSS Network is managed and administered by the Stanford University Libraries LOCKSS Program. A detailed description of what makes the LOCKSS software special and how the protection in the LOCKSS network works (e.g. technical infrastructure, security) can be found here. Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty LOCKSS data can be found here. 

Complaint Policy

Complaints received by Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty are welcome as they provide an opportunity for improvement. Quick, helpful and constructive responses to complaints are emphasized. Please send complaints to bif@mehmetakif.edu.tr with volume number, issue number, article ID, article title and page number.
Journal of Bucak Business Administration Faculty accepts the following complaints:
• Authorship complaints
• Plagiarism complaints
• Multiple, duplicate, and concurrent publications or simultaneous submissions
• Allegations of research errors and fraud
• Research standards violations
• Undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Reviewer bias or competitive/harmful acts by reviewers

Complaints Processing Policy
The procedure outlined in the COPE flowchart for complaints is followed.
Complaints are reviewed by the relevant member of the editorial team and if not resolved, the following processes are followed:
- If this initial response is deemed inadequate, the complainant may request that the complaint be forwarded to a more senior member of the journal.
- If the complainant is not satisfied, the complaint may be forwarded to the editor-in-chief.
- A full response will be provided within two weeks, if possible.