Research Ethics

The International Journal of Business and Management Innovations  is committed to promoting responsible, ethical, and transparent research practices. Authors are expected to conduct their research in accordance with recognized ethical principles and applicable institutional, national, and international requirements.

1. Ethical Approval

Research involving human participants, animals, personal data, or other ethically sensitive subjects should receive approval from an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB), Ethics Committee, or equivalent authority where required.

Authors should provide relevant ethical approval information in the manuscript.

2. Informed Consent

Where research involves human participants, authors should obtain appropriate informed consent before collecting or using participant information. Participants should be informed about the purpose of the research, their involvement, and their rights.

3. Privacy and Confidentiality

Authors must protect the privacy, confidentiality, and personal information of research participants. Identifiable information should not be published without appropriate consent or a valid ethical basis.

4. Research Data Integrity

Research data must be collected, analyzed, stored, and reported responsibly. Fabrication, falsification, manipulation, or intentional misrepresentation of data is unacceptable.

5. Research Involving Animals

Research involving animals should follow applicable laws, institutional policies, and recognized standards for the humane treatment and welfare of animals. Appropriate ethical approval should be obtained where required.

6. Conflicts of Interest

Researchers should disclose any financial, professional, personal, or institutional interests that could influence the research design, analysis, interpretation, or reporting of results.

7. Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should accurately reflect substantial contributions to the research. All listed authors should approve the final manuscript and accept responsibility for their contributions.

8. Plagiarism and Research Misconduct

IJBMI does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, manipulation of results, or other forms of research misconduct. Suspected misconduct may be investigated and appropriate editorial action may be taken.

9. Artificial Intelligence

AI tools may assist researchers with appropriate tasks, but researchers remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical integrity, and reliability of their work. AI-generated information, data, references, or results must not be presented as verified research without appropriate validation.

10. Data Availability

Authors are encouraged to make supporting research data available where ethically, legally, and practically possible. Where data cannot be shared, authors should provide an appropriate Data Availability Statement explaining the applicable restrictions.