Editor-in-Chief

Mei-Chen Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Consulting Editors

Chwen Sheu, Kansas State University, USA

David Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Eelko Huizingh, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Linda Hsieh, University of Birmingham, UK

Associate Editor

Colin Cheng, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Editorial Advisory Board

Ai-Chia Chuang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

Bing-Tian Dai, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Christian de Peretti, École Centrale de Lyon, France

Chun-Shuo Chen, Dhurakij Pundit University, Thailand

Dennis Krumwiede, Idaho University, USA

Eric Shiu, University of Birmingham, UK

Gary Hwa-Hsien Hsu, Durham University, UK

Jason C.H. Chen, Gonzaga University, USA

Jimmy Yang, Oregon State University, USA

Kanji Tanimoto, Waseda University, Japan

Makoto Nakano, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Mike Chen, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA

Ming-Jer Chen, University of Virginia, USA

Nobuaki Takahashi, Elizabethtown College, USA

Ping Jen Kao, University of Sussex, UK

Tung-Lung Chang, Long Island University, USA

Wai-Sum Siu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Ai-Hwa Chang, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan

Bou-Wen Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Chieh-Peng Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Chien-Wei Wu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Chung-Chu Liu, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Chwo-Ming Yu, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan

Heng-Chiang Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Ho-Min Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Hung-Chang Chiu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Hsien-Tung Tsai, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Jeonghwan Choi, Wenzhou-Kean University, China

John S. Liu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Kuan-Nan Chou, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan

Keven Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Li-Chung Jen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Mei-Chi Huang, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Ming Huang Chiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Ping Wei, Central South University, China

San-Lin Chung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sherry Chan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Shiu-Li Huang, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Shu-Cheng Chi, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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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 at the institute where the work has been carried out.

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” and upload your manuscript file as the following instructions.
 

Manuscript formatting

Manuscript file should be provided in Microsoft Word format, and should be up to a maximum of 8,000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices. Make sure your manuscript contains the following information.

Title

The title should be concise and informative, and must be related to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, or innovation.

Abstract

The maximum length of your abstract should be 250 words in total, including keywords. The abstract must contain sustainability, corporate social responsibility, or innovation.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords and must be related to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, or innovation which can be used for indexing purposes.

Text

• Use 12-point Times Roman for text.
• Use double spacing on the regular text in your manuscript.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.

Tables
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables are placed at the end of the manuscript text after References. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.

Figures
Please submit Figures as editable text and not as images. Figures are placed at the end of the manuscript text after Tables. Number Figures consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any Figure notes below the Figure body.

All accepted papers will be published without page charge, but to enable the publisher to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, the author must sign a Transfer of Copyright Agreement transferring copyright of the article to the publisher.

Copyright Transfer Agreement Form

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit a blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the manuscript.

Review Process of the Journal of Business Administration

1.The editor conducts preliminary screening of manuscripts to ensure that they meet publishing standards based on submission requirements. The editor consults the editorial board in determining anonymous reviewers.

2.The two anonymous reviewers are scholars from the journal’s editorial board with expertise in relevant fields of research.

3.The review committee will submit its comments and the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the following categories: Recommended for Publication, Returned for Revision, Revise and Re-review and Rejected.

4.The chief editor makes the final decision depending on the actual review comments, which will be provided to the authors for reference.

Journal of Business Administration (ISSN:1025-9627) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the subject of business administration and publishes four issues per year (March, June, September, and December). The purpose of this journal is to promote the research in the fields of sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and innovation over business administration. Manuscripts must be original, and have not been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The journal rejects manuscripts containing plagiarized content or fraudulent data, as well as those failing to reveal conflicts of interest. As part of the peer review and publication procedures, the editor-in-chief, consulting editors, the associate editor, and editorial advisory board, as well as the publisher endeavor to ensure that no violation of publication ethics or related malpractice takes place.

These guidelines are based on COPE's Core Practices and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors

Duties of the Editors

● Editors are completely responsible for accepting or rejecting the manuscripts submitted to them.

● The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

● Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to the manuscripts they judge.

● Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their content without regard to the authors’ gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, citizenship , ethnic origin and race or political philosophy .

● The editors and editorial board members should request all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication.

● The editors of Journal of Business Administration reserves the right to withdraw and rescind any accepted article should a case of ethical misconduct be discovered prior to publication.

Duties of the Reviewers

● Peer review is crucial in making editorial decisions.

● Any referee with a conflict of interest or who feels unqualified to review the manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

● All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents.

● Reviews should be conducted objectively. Referees’ opinions concerning the manuscript should be stated clearly and supported by facts and/or logical argument. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.

● Referees must point out any suspected ethical lapses on the part of the authors.

● Information or ideas contained in the manuscript reviewed must not be used for personal advantage.

Duties of the Authors

● All authors listed on the manuscript should have contributed significantly to the research. And their research work is original.

● Any change in authorship (or author order) after initial submission must be approved by all authors and by the editors.

● Neither plagiarism nor duplicate publication of the author’s own work without proper citation is acceptable.

● The author is responsible for the accuracy of all data. if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

● The manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references that the work can be replicated.

● All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.

● It is the obligation of the authors to promptly provide retractions or corrections of the original paper.

Plagiarism Policy

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

If evidence of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance or after publication of the paper, the author will be offered a chance for rebuttal. If the arguments are not found to be satisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted.

Subscription

Frequency：Published quarterly (March, June, September, December)

GPN：2004500005

ISSN：1025-9627

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