To Whom It May Concern! An International Agency for the Development of Culture, Education and Science (IADCES), in collaboration with the Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (USA) invites you to publish in the scientific periodical journal

Journal of International Business Studies ISSN: 0047-2506 (print version)

ISSN: 1478-6990 (electronic version)

The journal publishes articles on the economic and social sciences. Publishing periodicity – 9 issues/year. Part of the print run is dispatched to the libraries of major universities worldwide.The Journal is intended for students, Master’s Degree students, post-graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-graduate degree seekers, recent graduates, instructors, and research workers in different countries.

The edition materials are posted in Scopus and Web of Science.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 2.958SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 4.848Impact Factor: 6.042016 Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson ReutersIssue dispatch date – within 180 workdays following the Articles submission deadline.

Main subjects areas of the Journal:

Business, Management and Accounting Economics, Econometrics and Finance Social Sciences International Relations Regional Studies and socio-economic geography Statistics Industries and Markets Economics at Work

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Editors:

Editor-in-Chief                                 

Alain Verbeke, University of Calgary, Canada                                                   

 

Managing Editor                              

Anne Hoekman, Academy of International Business, USA

 

Reviewing Editor                             

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, University of Groningen, Netherlands

 

Senior Editors                   

Mary Ann von Glinow, Florida International University, USA

Yadong Luo, University of Miami, USA

 

Area Editors

Gary Biddle, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wayne Cascio, University of Colorado – Denver, USA

Tailan Chi, University of Kansas, USA

Miriam Erez, Technion, Israel

Konstantinos Katsikeas, University of Leeds, UK

Jiatao (JT) Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Peter Liesch, University of Queensland, Australia

Marjorie A. Lyles, Indiana University, USA

Klaus Meyer, China Europe International Business School, China

Rajneesh Narula, University of Reading, UK

Mark Peterson, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Rebecca (Becky) Reuber, University of Toronto, Canada

John Roberts, Stanford University, USA

Saeed Samiee, University of Tulsa, USA

Lemma Senbet, University of Maryland, USA

Mary Teagarden, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Ilan Vertinsky, University of British Columbia, Canada

Arjen van Witteloostuijn, University of Tilburg, Netherlands

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How to publish a paper

1. Send the manuscript and information about the author to the Editorial Board address:

agency . iadces @ gmail . com

2. Manuscripts are accepted only by e-mail.

3. After a review, you will be sent a postal message in 30 days with a full cost estimate and payment options.

4. Pay for processing the manuscript and publishing the paper by using the payment details sent to you.

5. After the Journal has been published, we will send it to you immediately by mail.

Cost of servicesService Cost

Article processing charge (APC - Submission and publication of one manuscript in the Journal,

including figures and tables) 99 Euro

Payment options:

Money transfer to a bank account in Euro to Australia, UK or the USA.

International payment system Skrill – payment from an organisation's business account in Skrill.

International payment system Neteller – payment from an organisation's business account in Neteller.

Payment shall be in Euro.

Contacts: International Agency for the Development of Culture, Education and Science

Level 7/ 30 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

www.iadces.org

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Instructions for Authors Language

You can submit your manuscript as one file in Word format for review. Preferred fonts: Arial or Times New Roman. Font size 12. Line spacing - 1.5. Articles are accepted in the English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Serbian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Greek, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Persian, Vietnamese, Swahili, Malay, Mongolian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tamil, Tajik, Turkmen, Polish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Moldovan, Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.

Article size

The standard size of an article shall be no more than 5,000 words, though articles with more than 5,000 words will be accepted in separate cases if the subject demands such a size.

Shorter materials

Analytical notes and survey papers are also accepted.

Submission

All correspondence, including notifications on Editor’s decisions and requests for revisions, is done by email.

References

When submitting, there are no strict requirements to the format of references. Any references format style can be used, provided consistency is observed. If applicable, indicate the name/names of author(s), name of journals/books, titles of chapters /papers, year of publishing, number of volume /book, chapter and page. Using DOI is encouraged. The style of references accepted in the journal will be applied to the accepted article at the proofreading (layout) stage. Please pay attention that at the proofreading (layout) stage missing information may be indicted for the author to add.

Formatting requirements

We place no strict requirements to formatting, though all manuscripts shall contain essential elements needed for their processing, e.g., an abstract, keywords, introduction, means and methods, results, conclusions, graphical elements and tables with captions.Page numbering

Place make sure that the pages of your paper are numbered sequentially because this is an essential requirement for your paper to be reviewed by your peers.

Electronic graphical presentation. General provisions

• Make sure that your original graphical presentation uses identical text styles of the same size.• Number the illustrations according to their order in the text.• Use a logical means of assigning names to your files with elements of graphics.

Figures and tables in the text

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Please make sure that the figures and tables in one file are located opposite the respective text in the manuscript, and not in the beginning or end of the file.Mathematical formulas

Please insert mathematical equations in an editable format rather than as an image. Insert simple formulas in line with the body text if possible and use a slash symbol (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractions, e.g., Х/Y. In principle, variables should be in italics. Exponents are best to be indicated as exp. Number sequentially all equations, which are inserted separately from the body text (if the text has an explicit reference to such equations).

Using software tools for processing the text

Please use as simple text formatting as possible. The majority of formatting codes will be replaced or deleted when the paper is processed. The electronic text should resemble a traditional manuscript as much as possible. Essential information placed on the title page

• Name of Journal, to which the author's paper is being submitted.• Paper title. Brief and meaningful. Titles are often used in electronic search systems. If possible, avoid using formulas and abbreviations.• Names of authors and place of employment. Please indicate clearly the name(s) and surname(s) of each author and check the names for correctness. Indicate the place of employment under the names, including the country of residence and, if available, the email of each author.• The author responsible for correspondence. Indicate clearly who will maintain correspondence at all stages of reviewing and publication, and also after publication. Make sure that the email address is indicated and that detailed contact information is indicated and updated by the author responsible for correspondence.

Abstract

A brief and factual abstract is required. It should contain a brief exposition of the objectives of research, the basic results and conclusions.

Keywords

Please indicate maximum eight keywords. The key words will be used for indexing purposes.

Attention! If the Article is in Spanish or another language (except English), the text blocks are as follows: ‘Name of Journal – Paper title – Names of authors and place of employment – The author responsible for correspondence –Abstract – Keywords– References’ translated into English.If the Article is in English, there is no need to translate the blocks ‘Name of Journal – Paper title – Names of authors and place of employment – The author responsible for correspondence –Abstract – Keywords– References’ into Spanish or another language and place them in the text.

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