Frontiers of Business Studies: An International Journal uses editorial/open peer review. This provides full transparency in the publishing industry.

The corresponding author should nominate – in agreement with the co-author(s) – at least one name academic with doctorate (preferably, who has a current academic affiliation but is not a person with whom the authors have recently published or collaborated) to review the manuscript. To speed up the review process, the corresponding author could contact first with the referee to get the approval. The review report the referee offers will not publicly published. The name of referee will be added to the article to provide full transparency and encourage the culture of the recognition of voluntary efforts of others.

Once the manuscript is submitted, the corresponding author should wait a few days to receive an initial decision from the editor-in-chief. If the manuscript is judged suitable for publication, it is then sent to the referee. The referee has two to three weeks to return the manuscript to the journal, and the authors have ten days to modify the manuscript incorporating the referee’s comments. The editor(s), however, reserves the right to refuse any manuscript or add certain corrections in agreement with the corresponding author. The authors should respect the decisions made by the editor(s) and the referee.