Policies

Aims and Scope

  1. Vision Statement:

To be a globally recognised as a leading academic journal that shapes the future of business, management, and economics research by fostering intellectual innovation, advancing evidence based knowledge, and driving impactful solutions for complex global research challenges.

  1. Mission Statement:

The mission of the Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) journal is to promote scholarly research, and professional practice in the fields of business, management, and economics. SBE publish rigorous and innovative research, uphold the highest ethical and editorial values, foster global scholarly dialogue, support open and unbiased access to knowledge, link theory and practice, and cultivates a collaborative research community.

  1. Aims:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) aims to:

  • Promote high-impact research that advances conceptual, theoretical, and empirical knowledge.
  • Foster interdisciplinary dialogue across business, management, and economics.
  • Serve as a trusted global source for evidence-based insights and practical implications.
  • Provide a rigorous, ethical, and transparent peer-review process.
  • Position SBE as a leading journal recognised by international ranking and indexing systems.
  1. Values:

 The Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) is committed to maintaining academic integrity, ethical excellence, diversity, collaboration, global good and high-quality research. The journal values are:

  1. Academic and Scholarly Rigour:

    Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) promotes a high standard of scholarly quality, and all published articles undergo rigorous peer review processes to ensure intellectual rigour.

  2. Ethical Excellence:

    The Journal adopt COPE best practices in all its editorial procedures, review processes, and publishing policies. All the journal procedures are based on the core values of transparency, fairness, and accountability.

  3. Inclusivity and Diversity:

    The Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) is committed to fostering global inclusivity, diversity, equity, and representation in every aspect of its editorial, review, and publication processes. SBE believes that a healthy scholarly culture is one that values diverse perspectives, methodologies, cultural traditions, and professional experiences.

  4. Open Knowledge for Global Benefit:

    The journal is committed to the free dissemination of knowledge and strives to position its publications so that the innovations they contain can be freely accessed, ethically used, and applied to help improve the global good. The journal’s full commitment to Open Knowledge for Global Benefit, including making academic research widely accessible to all and empowering researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communities around the world.

  5. Collaboration and Community Building:

    The Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) believes in fostering strong relationships amongst authors, reviewers, editors, practitioners, and institutions to strengthen the research ecosystem.

  1. Scope:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) publishes original contributions in areas including (but not limited to):

Business & Management

      • Strategic management.
      • Marketing.
      • Organisational behaviour.
      • Human resource management.
      • Entrepreneurship and SMEs.
      • Innovation management.
      • Leadership.
      • Business ethics.
      • E-Business.
      • E-Commerce.

Economics:

      • Microeconomics and macroeconomics.
      • Development economics.
      • Behavioural economics.
      • International trade and finance.
      • Applied econometrics.

Finance and Accounting:

      • Corporate finance.
      • Investment and financial markets.
      • Banking and financial institutions.
      • Risk management.
      • Accounting theory and performance analysis.

Operations and Related Fields:

      • Operations management.
      • Supply chain management.
      • Data analytics.
      • Decision sciences.

Interdisciplinary Themes:

      • Sustainability.
      • Digital transformation.
      • Public policy and regulation.
      • Hala studies.
      • Emerging markets.
      • Business/society relationships.
      • Tourism management.

Archiving

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) ensures the permanent preservation, accessibility, and integrity of all its scholarly content through a distributed digital archiving framework consistent with international standards for academic publishing and open access scholarship.

Digital Preservation and Repositories:

To guarantee long-term availability of its scholarly content, the Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) archives all published content in multiple independent and trusted preservation systems:

  • QSpace (DSpace): Articles are deposited in Qatar University institutional repository using (QSpace) the DSpace platform, providing permanent storage, standardised metadata, and institutional stewardship.
  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): Participation of the SBE journal in LOCKSS ensures decentralised preservation of its content through geographically distributed library nodes, which enables content restoration in case of data loss.
  • ResearchGate: Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) is registered with ResearchGate. The journal ResearchGate page is considered as another primary preservation archive for all published work by the journal. Additionally, the journal ResearchGate page is used for dissemination and global discoverability purposes of all published research work by the journal to ResearchGate members (more than 25 million members).
  • Public Knowledge Project (PKP): The Journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) publishing ecosystem and is committed to advancing open, transparent, and sustainable scholarly communication.
  • ZDB (Zeitschriftendatenbank – German Union Catalogue of Serials): The Journal is registered with ZDB to ensure permanent bibliographic documentation and serial continuity within national and international library networks.
  • FATCAT (Internet Archive): the SBE Journal metadata and content are registered with FATCAT to support persistent identification, global discoverability, and long-term preservation.

Version Control and Integrity:

The SBE journal archived contents corresponds to the final published version of the records. Any post-publication updates, including corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions, are clearly identified, permanently linked, and preserved to maintain the transparency and integrity of the scholarly record.

Access and Continuity:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) guarantees continued access to its archived content regardless of changes in editorial management, ownership, or publishing platform. Should the Journal cease publication, all published material will remain accessible through the designated archiving and preservation services.

Author Self-Archiving:

In accordance with the journal CC BY-NC 4.0 license, Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) allows authors to deposit preprint, accepted manuscript, and version of record into their institutional repositories, personal websites, disciplinary repositories (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.com, etc., where legally allowed). No embargo period applies for manuscripts digital archiving, and authors self-archiving rights are granted immediately. We encourage authors to link to the Version of Record via its DOI.

Ethical and Standards Compliance:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) Archiving Policy conforms with COPE guidelines on publication ethics and maintenance of the scholarly record, OpenAIRE recommendations on open access, licensing transparency, and metadata interoperability, DOAJ criteria for long-term digital preservation and open licensing, and Scopus expectations regarding content permanence, accessibility, and citation stability.

Policy Review:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) periodically reviews and updates this Archiving Policy to ensure ongoing compliance with evolving preservation standards, open access policies, and best practices in scholarly publishing.

Owner and Managment

The ownership of SBE journal belongs to the College of Business and Economics at Qatar University.

Publication Schedule 

The periodicity of the publication of SBE journal is bi-annual. Two issues are published per year.

Open Access Policy

  1. Introduction

The Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) is committed to the free and unrestricted dissemination of high-quality academic research. SBE operates under a Platinum Open Access publishing model, safeguarding that all the journal published articles are immediately, permanently, and freely available to the global research community without subscription or access barriers. The journal Platinum Open Access policy applies to all article types published by the journal (e.g. research articles, reviews, case studies, etc.) unless explicitly noted.

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) Platinum Open Access policy is designed to:

  • Promote equitable access to scientific knowledge.
  • Enhance global research visibility and impact.
  • Support compliance with international open access mandates.
  • Contribute to transparent, ethical, and sustainable scholarly communication.
  1. Open Access Model:

2.1. Platinum Open Access:

Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) is a Platinum Open Access journal. As such, all articles receive immediate open access and are freely accessible upon publication. The journal does not charge registration, subscription, submission or Article Processing Charges (APCs) on any submitted or published content. The journal readers are allowed to access, read, copy, download, print, distribute, and link to full published articles for non-commercial purposes, given that a suitable credit/reference to the original article is provided. The journal does not impose any embargo periods on accepted manuscripts. All journal articles are accessible instantly upon online publication.

2.2. Note for Readers:

In practical terms, readers may freely read, download, share, and adapt articles published in SBE for non-commercial purposes, as long as they credit/cite the authors and the journal appropriately.

  1. Licensing and Copyright:

3.1. Copyright Ownership:

By agreeing to submit their manuscripts to the journal, authors grant the Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE), College of Business and Economics, and Qatar University an exclusive, worldwide license to publish, share, store, distribute, and preserve the published articles in all formats and media, and to license it to the public under the CC BY-NC 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The CC BY-NC 4.0 license safeguards maximum visibility, dissemination, and academic impact for the journal publications. The default license for SBE articles is CC BY-NC 4.0. Authors whose funders mandate a more permissive license (e.g., CC BY 4.0) may request this at the time of acceptance.

3.2. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0):

All Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) research papers are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), unless otherwise specified. The journal's adopted Creative Commons license does not apply to any third-party materials that display copyright requirements or conditions forbidding unpermitted use. In the case of having such third-party materials, the author(s) must comply with the third-party copyright requirements or conditions.

  1. Archiving, Preservation and Funder Requirements:

4.1. Digital Archiving:

SBE ensures permanent article preservation; all published manuscripts are archived in Qatar University Institutional repository (QSpace). In addition to QSpace, SBE participates in LOCKSS and ResearchGate to ensure long-term, redundant preservation of its content. Moreover, Articles are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and associated metadata is deposited with Crossref, ensuring persistent discoverability.

Meanwhile, Studies in Business and Economics Journal (SBE) allows authors to deposit preprint, accepted manuscript, and version of record into their institutional repositories, personal websites, disciplinary repositories (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.com, etc., where legally allowed). No embargo period applies for manuscripts digital archiving, and authors self-archiving rights are granted immediately. We encourage authors to link to the Version of Record via its DOI.

4.2 Funder Requirements:

The journal recognise most funder requirements for:

  • Immediate open access.
  • Reuse permissions for noncommercial usage via CC BY-NC 4.0.
  • Persistent identifiers (DOI).
  • Long-term preservation.
  1. Research Data, Code, and Supplementary Materials:

5.1. Data Availability

Authors are encouraged to make the data underlying their findings available in a trusted repository, unless legal or ethical constraints prevent this.

5.2. Code and Software:

Where studies involve custom code or software, authors should provide access to these materials via public repositories (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, institutional repositories).