Advances in Business & Industrial Marketing Research (ABIM) is committed to responsible scholarly publishing, editorial independence, responsible peer review, research integrity, transparency, and preservation of the scholarly record.

The journal's publication-ethics policies are informed by recognized scholarly publishing principles and relevant guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ↗ . These policies apply to authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staff, and the publisher.

Authorship should accurately reflect substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript. Individuals listed as authors must accept responsibility for the work and approve the final version submitted for publication.

Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately. ABIM does not permit ghost, guest, or gift authorship.

Manuscripts must include an author-contribution statement. Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy ↗ where appropriate.

Manuscripts submitted to ABIM must represent original scholarly work and must not be simultaneously submitted to or under consideration by another journal.

Material derived from other sources must be appropriately quoted, paraphrased, cited, and attributed. Plagiarism, inappropriate text recycling, duplicate publication, redundant publication, and undisclosed substantial overlap are not acceptable.

Potential misconduct may include, but is not limited to:

ABIM considers allegations concerning submitted and published work. Reports should contain sufficient information to allow the Editorial Office to understand and assess the concern.

ABIM may contact relevant institutions, funding bodies, other journals, or appropriate authorities where an allegation requires investigation beyond the journal's authority.

Authors, reviewers, editors, and other participants in the publication process must disclose relationships or interests that could reasonably influence or appear to influence their professional judgment.

Relevant conflicts may be financial, institutional, professional, personal, collaborative, competitive, supervisory, or otherwise connected to the manuscript or its participants. Editors with relevant conflicts must not handle or make decisions on the affected manuscript.

Research involving human participants, animals, personal or confidential data, vulnerable populations, or other ethically sensitive matters must comply with applicable institutional, national, and disciplinary requirements.

Authors may be required to provide documentation of ethical approval, exemption, informed consent, institutional authorization, or related ethical compliance upon editorial request.

Authors should report methods, data sources, analytical procedures, and research decisions with sufficient transparency to permit scholarly evaluation and, where reasonably possible, replication or reproducibility.

Authors may be requested to provide underlying data, code, instruments, documentation, or other research materials when necessary to evaluate manuscript integrity.

Where data cannot be shared because of privacy, confidentiality, legal, contractual, ethical, or proprietary restrictions, authors should explain the relevant limitations.

ABIM applies a double-anonymous peer-review process. Manuscripts progressing to external peer review are normally assessed by at least two independent reviewers.

Editors evaluate manuscripts according to scholarly merit, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to ABIM's Aims & Scope, research integrity, peer-review evidence, and compliance with journal policies.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by authors' nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, religion, ethnicity, political beliefs, commercial relationships, or other characteristics unrelated to scholarly evaluation.

Authors may use Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies for appropriate support in manuscript preparation, such as improving language or readability, provided that human oversight is maintained and authors carefully review, verify, and take full responsibility for the final content.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, originality, or accountability required of authors.

Where relevant, authors must disclose material use of Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in accordance with ABIM manuscript requirements.

Reviewers and editors must protect manuscript confidentiality. Submitted manuscripts, unpublished data, supplementary materials, review reports, and confidential correspondence must not be uploaded to publicly accessible Generative AI systems or external tools where confidentiality, data security, intellectual property protection, or retention conditions cannot be assured.

Reviewers and editors remain personally responsible for professional judgment and editorial or review conclusions.

AI-assisted diagrams or explanatory illustrations may be considered when their use is transparent, appropriate, lawful, and accurately represents the underlying information.

Authors remain responsible for verifying the accuracy, originality, copyright status, attribution, and integrity of all visual materials. AI-generated images must not be presented as genuine empirical, observational, experimental, or documentary evidence when they are not.

Errors identified after publication are evaluated according to their nature and effect on the published record.

Where correction is appropriate, ABIM may publish a correction, corrigendum, erratum, or equivalent notice linked to the original article. The notice should identify the affected publication and describe the correction.

Retraction may be considered when published findings are unreliable because of fabrication, falsification, serious error, plagiarism, redundant publication, unethical research, serious authorship problems, manipulated peer review, or other circumstances that materially undermine publication integrity.

Retraction notices should identify the retracted article, explain the reason where appropriate, remain publicly accessible, and preserve the scholarly record.

Where concerns are serious but an investigation remains incomplete or inconclusive, the journal may issue an expression of concern when appropriate.

Authors requesting withdrawal of a manuscript before publication should contact the Editorial Office and clearly explain the reason for withdrawal.

ABIM does not impose a separate withdrawal fee. A withdrawal request does not prevent the journal from investigating suspected duplicate submission, misconduct, authorship disputes, or other integrity concerns identified during editorial processing.

Authors, reviewers, readers, and other stakeholders may submit complaints concerning editorial procedures, reviewer conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, publication ethics, administrative processes, corrections, or other journal-related matters.

Authors may appeal an editorial decision when they believe a significant procedural or scholarly error affected the decision. Appeals should provide a clear explanation and relevant supporting information rather than simply expressing disagreement with the outcome.

Authors retain copyright in articles published by ABIM and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that submitted content does not infringe copyright or other intellectual property rights and for obtaining necessary permission to reproduce third-party material.

Under CC BY 4.0, users may copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon published material for any purpose, including commercially, provided appropriate attribution is given, a link to the license is provided, and changes are indicated where applicable.

No additional legal or technological restrictions may be imposed that prevent others from exercising rights permitted by the license.

ABIM provides immediate open access to published content. Readers may access published articles without subscription or registration barriers.

Open access supports wider dissemination, visibility, accessibility, reuse, and exchange of scholarly knowledge while preserving appropriate attribution to authors and the journal as the original place of publication.

ABIM may permit limited and selectively reviewed advertising or promotional content where appropriate. Advertising activities remain separate from academic editorial functions.

Advertising relationships do not influence editorial content, reviewer selection, peer-review decisions, manuscript acceptance, rejection, publication timing, or editorial priorities.

The presence of advertising does not constitute endorsement by ABIM or its publisher of any advertised institution, conference, organization, service, or product.

Any journal-related solicitation, call for papers, invitation, or promotional communication issued by ABIM should be accurate, professional, transparent, and not misleading. The journal does not promise guaranteed acceptance, guaranteed publication, favorable peer review, or indexing in exchange for submission or payment.

ABIM supports responsible scholarly discussion concerning published work. Readers may contact the Editorial Office regarding substantive concerns, potential errors, requests for clarification, or publication-integrity matters. Appropriate editorial actions may include communication with authors, publication of corrections or responses, or further investigation.

ABIM is published by Yayasan Pendidikan Bukhari Dwi Muslim. The publisher supports journal administration, infrastructure, dissemination, technical operations, and publication continuity while respecting the independence of scholarly editorial decisions.

Commercial revenue, institutional collaboration, sponsorship, Article Processing Charges, or other financial relationships must not interfere with independent academic editorial evaluation.

ABIM may take appropriate editorial action when journal policies, research-integrity requirements, ethical standards, or publication agreements are violated. Actions are determined according to the seriousness of the matter, available evidence, stage of publication, and the need to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Where appropriate, ABIM may consult relevant COPE guidance, external experts, institutions, publishers, or other responsible organizations when addressing complex publication-ethics matters.