International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management


International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management

Print ISSN : 2349 –2546

Online ISSN : 2348 –3954

Frequency : Monthly


International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management

On this page:

  • ABOUT THE JOURNAL
  • AIMS AND SCOPE
  • READERSHIP
  • JOURNAL CONTENTS
  • JOURNAL POLICIES

 

1. ABOUT THE JOURNAL: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

ARSEAM Foundation makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in our publications. However, ARSEAM Foundation, our agents (including the editor, any member of the editorial team or editorial board, and any guest editors) make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by ARSEAM Foundation. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. ARSEAM Foundation shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to, or arising out of the use of the Content.

2. AIMS AND SCOPE

International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management (IJMFM) is the official Journal of the ARSEAM Foundation and is a double-blind peer-reviewed Journal. IJMFM seeks to meet the needs of a wide but sophisticated audience. As such, all contributions to the Journal are expected to be intellectually rigorous, well embedded in the relevant literatures, yet understandable to our wide audience. We do not wish to be overly prescriptive about the types of papers we desire to receive.

 The Journal focuses on issues related to the development and implementation of new methodologies and technologies, which improve the operational objectives of an organization. These include product development, project management, logistics, production management, Services Marketing, CRM, e-commerce, e-Governance, e-Government, quality management, financial planning, risk management, Asset and Wealth Management, Securities and Portfolio Management, General Management, Banking, Insurance  and emerging trends in allied subjects. Thus, the journal provides a forum for researchers and practitioners for the publication of innovative scholarly research, which contributes to the adoption of a new holistic managerial approach that ensures a technologically, economically, socially and ecologically advancement and acceptable deployment of new technologies in business practice leading to the welfare and upliftment of society, nation and the world as a whole.

3. READERSHIP

Professionals, academics, researchers, practitioners and Policy Makers

4. JOURNAL CONTENTS

IJMFM publishes papers that are able to show how to turn theory into practice or describe leading managerial practices that enable business performance. It will adopt a pragmatic and easy to read jargon free style. IJMFM will encourage papers that develop frameworks and define processes that help to translate specific concepts and philosophy into organisational actions. The journal will also publish rigorously compiled case studies of companies that illustrate best practice, ways of doing things, and highlight key challenges and ways of transferring these practices into other organisations.

5. JOURNAL POLICIES

5.1 Open Access Policy

In order to ensure the maximum exposure of IJMFM contents, we adopted the open access policy, meaning that;

  • All the articles published in IJMFM are made freely accessible online immediately after publication in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier.
  • All the published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License, full details of which can be found here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • Articles can be shared and adapted, provided the attribution for the work is given.
  • The journal also allows the authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the articles on any OAI (Open Archives Initiative)-compliant institutional/subject-based repository.

5.2 Peer-review Policy

  • All the manuscripts submitted to IJMFM will be subjected to the double-blinded peer-review process;
  • The manuscript will be reviewed by minimum two or three suitable experts in the respective subject area. The reports of all the reviewers will be considered while deciding on acceptance/revision or rejection of a manuscript.
  • Editor-In-Chief (EIC) will make the final decision, based on the reviewer’s comments.
  • EIC can ask one or more advisory board members for their suggestions upon a manuscript, before making the final decision.
  • Associate editor and review editors provide administrative support to maintain the integrity of the peer-review process.
  • In case, authors challenge the editor's negative decision with suitable arguments, the manuscript can be sent to one more reviewer and the final decision will be made based upon his recommendations.

5.3 Waiver Policy

IJMFM may grant the partial/full waiver in article processing charges to the authors who are unable to pay the APCs due to financial restrictions. Only the authors from low-income countries can apply for the waiver. Please send your waiver requests to info@arseam.com with complete details.

5.4 Copyright policies

All the articles published in IJMFM are distributed under a creative commons attribution 4.0 International license (read detailed license information using below link) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

5.5 Author Self-Archiving Policy

IJMFM is a green journal. The journal allows the authors to self-archive pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version of the articles in any OAI (Open Archives Initiative)-compliant repository.

5.6 Plagiarism Policy

The authors should ensure the originality of their contents while preparing a manuscript draft. In case the authors have used the work and/or words of others this must be appropriately cited or quoted. All the articles submitted to IJMFM shall be screened for plagiarism using  Turnitin or Ithenticate (online plagiarism detection software). In case, plagiarism is detected during the review/editorial process, such manuscript(s) will be rejected immediately. If the plagiarism is proven after publication, such manuscript(s) will be retracted from the journal and an appropriate announcement will be placed in this regard. We can also consider appropriate action against authors depending upon the seriousness of the case. It includes;

  • Debarring the authors from publication in the future,
  • We can bring such instants in notice of author's funding agencies, author's institutes (where they work) and to the original authors whose work has been plagiarized.

COPE flow charts (please follow the below link) shall also be considered while dealing with plagiarism complaints

Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript

https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20A.pdf

Suspected plagiarism in a published manuscript

https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20B.pdf

5.7 Retraction policy

IJMFM follow the COPE Retraction Guidelines. Plz use the Link given below: https://publicationethics.org/files/cope-retraction-guidelines-v2.pdf 

5.8 Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest defined as any relationship authors, reviewers or editors have, which interferes with the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of a manuscript. Conflicts of interest can be financial or non-financial, professional or personal, and can arise in relation to an organization or an individual.

A) Authors

When authors submit a manuscript of any type or format they are responsible for disclosing all relationships and activities that might bias or be seen to bias their work (e.g. employment, consulting fees, research contracts, stock ownership, patent licenses, honoraria, advisory affiliations, etc.).

B) Reviewers

Reviewers must disclose to journal editors any relationships or an activity that could bias their opinions of the manuscript and should recuse them from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. Reviewers must not use knowledge of the work they’re reviewing before its publication to further their own interests. Please use the review form provided at your reviewer login area to disclose the conflicts of interest.

C) Editors and Journal Staff

IJMFM editors who make final decisions about manuscripts must have no personal, professional, or financial involvement in any of the issues they might judge. Other members of the editorial staff, if they participate in editorial decisions, must provide editors with a current description of their financial interests (as they might relate to editorial judgments) and recuse themselves from any decisions in which a conflict of interest exists. Editorial staff must not use information gained through working with manuscripts for private gain. When editors submit their own work to this journal, a colleague in the editorial office should manage the manuscript and the editor/author should recuse himself or herself from discussion and decisions about it.

5.9 Complaints and appeals

Authors & readers can submit their complaints/appeal to the editor or the publisher of the journal through email info@arseam.com  or through the complaint form provided on the contact us page Link. All the complaints will assign a unique complaint number by the publisher. Authors/readers can use complaint numbers for further follow-up.

If you do not receive a response to your complaint within 48 hrs or if you are not satisfied with the response please write to associate chief editor info@arseam.com . Please mention your unique comlpaint number in follow-up emails.

5.10 Disclaimer

The author(s) of each article appearing in this Journal is/are solely responsible for the content thereof; neither the International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management nor its editors or publisher nor anyone else involved in creating, producing, or distribution assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, correctness or usefulness of any information provided in the Journal, nor shall they be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising out of the use of the International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management. The journal remains neutral with regards to the jurisdictional claims in published institutional affiliations.