AYBU Business Journal

Aim
AYBU Business Journal is an international academic and peer-reviewed journal of Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University Business School. AYBU Business Journal aims to reach the international level of researches and to gain new perspectives and approaches to researches. The journal is published twice a year and covers multi-disciplinary studies from business and economics field including but not limited to;

· Accounting

· Finance

· Banking

· Marketing

·Econometrics

· Human Resources Management

· Decision sciences

· Production & Operations management

· Management & Strategy

· Organization Theory

AYBU Business Journal aims to include original research articles and review articles that comprehensively evaluate the literature in the field of social sciences. The journal aims to be a resource that includes international, interdisciplinary, original and scientific studies. In addition, it is aimed to contribute to the field of social sciences in the world and in Turkey. It is aimed to contribute to the scientific knowledge that academicians and researchers working in the field of social sciences can benefit from.

Submission Guidelines and Requirements

1. The language of the journal is English.

2. Main Text should be prepared in A4 paper size: having 2 cm margins from right, left, and 2.5 cm bottom and top, Times New Roman font style in 11 font size and line spacing of 1.15. Spacing between paragraphs should be set as 6 nk before and after. Tables and figures should be arranged according to the page. Pages should be numbered for the convenience of referee evaluation.

3. Manuscripts should be between 3500 and 9000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, stuctured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices. Page numbers should be at the bottom and in the middle.

4. A concisely worded title should be provided.

5.The name(s) of author(s) should be given just beneath the title of the study aligned to the right. Also the affiliation, title, e-mail and phone of the author(s) must be indicated on the bottom of the page as a footnote marked with an asterisk (*). Author's name (s) should be written in bold, only initials should be in capital Times New Roman with 10 pt. Addresses should be written in normal letters in the footnote; the institution where the author works, country name and e-mail address Times New Roman should be specified here in 9 pt. ORCID ID information of all authors should also be included here

6. A minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 key words informing the reader about the content of the study should be written just below the structured abstract.

7.The 6th version of the APA (American Psychological Association) reference style should be used for in-text citation and references list.

8.Tables, graphs and figures can be given with a number and a defining title if and only if it is necessary to follow the idea of the article. The title of table should be placed above the table; caption of figure should be placed beneath the figure.

9.Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work submitted to the Journal for publication.
10.The author(s) can be asked to make some changes in their articles due to peer reviews.
11.The manuscripts that were submitted to the journal will not be returned whether they are published or not.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

The journal is committed to maintaining the highest level of integrity in the content published.


Manuscript Submission

Conditions and publication processes regarding the acceptance of articles are aimed at the basis for the development and distribution of information in an impartial and respectful manner.

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.



Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.



The publishing process of the AYBU Business Journal takes place within the framework of ethical principles. The procedures in the process support the quality of the studies. For this reason, it is very important for all stakeholders involved in the process to comply with ethical standards.

The AYBU Business Journal expects its readers, writers, rewiers and editors to take ethical responsibility.

The ethical codes expected from the studies and publication processes of the AYBU Business Journal are given below in the light of the guidelines and policies prepared by the Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE. (For detailed information, Committee on Publication Ethics).

Ethical Rules for Authors

• Originality

• Conflicts of interest

• Double-Blind Reviewer Review

• Accuracy

• Co-authoring

• Copyright



Ethical Rules for Reviewer

• Reciprocity

• Right to Refuse

• Conflict of Interest

• Double-Blind Reviewer Review

• Punctuality

• Neutral

• Privacy



Ethical Rules for Editors

• Independence

• Neutral

• Conflict of Interest

• Double-Blind Reviewer Review

• Privacy

• Review Quality

• Punctuality

• Decision Quality

• Performance



Ethical Rules for Authors

• The studies should be original, not published elsewhere and in compliance with scientific research and publication ethics.

• Authors should confirm that they have read and understood the author's instructions.

• All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

• All authors have significantly contributed to the research.

• All the data in the article should be real and original. Authors should share the data with the journal, if necessary.

• It is the authors' responsibility whether the article requires ethical committee approval. Ethics committee approval should be specified in the material and method section.

Ethical Rules for Reviewers

• Comments should be made objectively.

• The author's personal criticism is inappropriate.

• Reviewers should express their views openly, with supportive discussions and references when necessary. However, it should not be defamatory or defamatory.

• Reviewers must declare competing interests.

• Reviewers should refuse to review articles with conflicts of interest resulting from:

(Competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or links or affiliated organizations with authors, companies.)

• Reviewers must respect the confidentiality of the materials provided to them and should not discuss unpublished articles with their colleagues or use the information in their own work.

• If a reviewer wants to send a review request to a colleague, he / she must obtain the editor's permission in advance.

• Reviewers must be unbiased.





Ethical Rules for Editors

• Writing independence should be ensured. Editorial decisions should be based on the quality of the work and the appropriate reviewer evaluation rather than on political, financial or personal effects.

• Editors are obliged to guide the reviewers for any information. This information sharing should be based on the COPE principle.

• Editors should adopt an appropriate review process for their journals / workspaces and resources /.

• Editors should not be refused to publish in their own journals, but should not take advantage of their positions. Proceed according to the journal procedure.

• The principle of editorial independence should always be adopted.



Article General Principles, Peer Review Process



General Principles:

Articles to be included in the journal should comply with the publication principles stated in the following articles:

1. " AYBU Business Journal " is an academic and scientific national refereed journal. The publication period of the journal is twice a year; It is the period from June and December. During these periods, shifts may occur depending on the journal's publishing system. Therefore, the journal cannot be held under any demand or responsibility. In addition, special issues can be issued with the decision of the chief editor. This situation depends only on the approval of the editor.

2. AYBU Business Journal is a national refereed journal that mainly publishes original scientific articles in the field of Social Sciences (Economics, Business, Management Sciences, Econometrics, International Relations and Finance).

3. Although the language of the journal is English.

4. The submitted work should not have been published elsewhere or sent to another journal for publication. In the event of such a negativity, the study is rejected on the condition that a refutation is published and legal action is initiated against the author.

5. In which symposium / congress, when and where the works presented in scientific meetings such as symposiums and congresses were presented should be indicated with a footnote attached to the title of the article. Likewise, information should be given in footnotes for studies derived from theses.

6. The responsibility of the articles in the journal belongs to the author / s. The addressee of legal, legal, economic and ethical responsibilities is the author. The journal does not accept any liability.

7. The copyright of the articles published in the journal belongs to the journal.

8. Information about the name or identity of the author should not be included in the attached articles. The information about the author (s) is added by the editor at the time of publication.

9. Two studies of the same author cannot be published in one issue of the journal.

10. In the studies evaluated within the journal, the journal addresses the responsible author, does not have a relationship with other authors and does not inform anyone other than the responsible author.

11. The identities of the referees and the author are kept confidential during this process.

Referee Evaluation Process

1. It is required that the works to be published within the journal must be from the relevant fields that the journal accepts publication. Any publication that does not have these features is not included in the journal.

2. The process of referee process is carried out under the control of the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief has the authority to inform and decide on the functioning of the journal regarding the referee process. A publication that is not approved or approved by the editor-in-chief is not included in the journal process. He does not have to inform the board of directors during this decision process. The author or authors cannot create an obligation on the journal and other bodies on this matter.

3. Each article uploaded to the journal system is first evaluated by the editor or assistant editors in terms of compliance with the writing and publication principles. As a result of this evaluation, if there are corrections to be made by the author, the article is returned to the author by the editors with a request for correction. After corrections, the referee process begins.

4. Manuscripts that are found suitable for evaluation in terms of writing and publication principles are directed to the referees. At least two referees are assigned to evaluate each manuscript approved by the editor. Referees are selected from among people who have expertise in the field and department represented by the article.

5. Two referees are appointed at the first stage according to the field of each article. The article that receives two positive referee reports from the field evaluation is eligible for publication. The article, which receives a positive and negative referee report, is sent to a third referee. Whether the article is published or not is decided in accordance with the report of the third referee.

6. In the event that one of the referee reports is "Corrected and Published", the author is asked to be corrected only once. If the required corrections are not made in both corrections, the broadcast is rejected by the system.

7. Corrections are made as major and minor. Each correction has only two rights. If the required correction is not made in line with the two demands, the study is automatically rejected.

8. The "referee opinion report" regarding the publication evaluation is sent to the responsible author. The correction period for the studies requested to be corrected is 7-15 days. Studies that are not corrected within this period are removed from the system and rejected. In this case, the author cannot have a sanction right about the journal.

9. The evaluation period of the referees for the manuscript sent to them is maximum one month. At the end of this process, a new referee is appointed for the non-reported article. The evaluation period of the studies uploaded to the system is two months. Studies that are not evaluated within this period and whose relevant information is not reported are sent to another referee. In this case, the evaluation period may be extended and a request cannot be created. In this case, the author cannot claim any rights or withdraw the article from the system.

10. Referees may want to see the article they want to revise once again before it is published. If this request is specified in the report, the corrected form of the text is automatically sent to the referee by the system.

11. Journal editors scrupulously follow the corrections given by the referees. Accordingly, a decision may be taken by the editors to publish or not to publish an article.

There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles.