Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure Policy
The Journal of Innovative Research in Management Sciences (JIRMS) is committed to maintaining transparency, objectivity, and integrity throughout the publication process. Authors, reviewers, editors, and Editorial Board members are expected to disclose any relationships or interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence the preparation, evaluation, or publication of scholarly work.
Disclosure does not necessarily indicate a conflict of interest; rather, it promotes transparency and enables informed editorial decision-making.
Conflict of Interest
- A conflict of interest may arise when personal, professional, financial, institutional, academic, or other relationships could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, the objectivity, integrity, or impartiality of research or editorial decisions.
- All authors must disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest relevant to their submitted manuscript. Where no conflicts exist, authors should state: "The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
- Reviewers and editors must promptly disclose any conflict of interest that could affect their independent judgment and, where appropriate, decline participation in the editorial or peer-review process.
Funding Disclosure
Authors must disclose all sources of financial support for the research, including grants, institutional funding, commercial sponsorship, or other relevant financial assistance.
Where the research received no external funding, authors should state: "This research received no external funding. Authors should also disclose, where applicable, the role of the funding organization in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or the decision to publish.
Editorial Responsibility
The Editorial Office evaluates all disclosed conflicts of interest and funding information to determine whether additional editorial measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity, objectivity, and impartiality of the publication process.
Where an Editor, Reviewer, or Editorial Board member has an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest relating to a manuscript, they shall promptly disclose the conflict and withdraw from the editorial or peer-review process.
In such cases, editorial or peer-review responsibility shall be assigned to another qualified individual with no competing interest to ensure a fair, independent, and unbiased evaluation.
Failure to disclose a relevant conflict of interest or funding relationship may result in editorial action, including manuscript rejection, publication of a correction, retraction, or other appropriate measures in accordance with the Journal's Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.
Compliance
JIRMS manages conflict of interest and funding disclosures in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices, and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by DOAJ, COPE, and OASPA.
