Guidelines

The objective of the Asia Pacific Business and Economics Perspective (Perspectives) is to publish high-quality theoretical, empirical, business case studies, policy research and methodological research in the fields of business and economics.

EDITORIAL POLICIES

In line with the objective of Perspectives, priority shall be given to the following submissions:

Theoretical research: Studies that explore or test theoretical issues and provide additional insights on the issues.

Empirical research: Studies that re-examine important empirical work using alternative theoretical or empirical frameworks, or a different data set. These studies often involve experimental designs and multivariate techniques that examine relationships among variables.

Business case studies:  Studies that illustrate best practices of companies or industries on emerging business concepts.

Policy research:  Studies that use business field research to enact policies on an economy, country, or community.

Methodological research: Studies that present new approaches in analyzing data or addressing research problems.

Review articles: Surveys that review and critically evaluate the literature. A review article must go beyond summarizing previous research. It must provide a critical and integrative evaluation of prior research, develop a conceptual framework to explain contradictory findings and suggest directions for further research.

Perspectivesalso encourages and welcomes manuscripts that use an interdisciplinary approach (i.e. law and economics) in analyzing issues as well as those that use multiple research methods to support hypotheses.

In addition to the above types of articles, Perspectivesalso welcomes critiques, short notes, or comments on previously published articles and consequently, rejoinders from the authors of these articles. Short articles which are not full-length research papers, but the content of which adds new insights into or knowledge to their respective fields will be considered. These short articles and comments shall be included under a separate section called – Research Notes.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Perspectivesis a bi-annual peer reviewed journal of APUGSM Conferences and the Asia Pacific Business and Economics Research Society.  The two issues are released every summer and winter in Japan, which coincides with, but not limited to, the APUGSM Conferences.

Our double blind peer-review process is composed of faculty from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan, keynote speakers from the APBERS Conferences, and academic networks of the editors from scholarly journals.  The peer review process is determined based on the matching of the topic and the expertise of the reviewer.

The journal comes with the one time annual membership of presenting authors in the APUGSM Conferences.  Annual membership to the Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society is USD70.

REVIEW PROCESS

Papers may be published two ways:  (1) presentation at APBERS Conferences; (2) and via direct submission to APBERS.

Presented papers at the APBERS Conferences are evaluated by the review panel composed of the conference chairs, keynote speakers, and APBERS board members. Outstanding papers are invited for submission to the peer review process.

Papers are then reviewed by an Advisory Editorial Board and invited experts in the fields of business and economics. A ten-point grading scale is used.  Papers with more than 90 percent score are considering a clean acceptance and the authors may or may not considering the comments of the reviewers.  Papers with 80 to 89 percent are considered minor acceptance with required revisions from the reviewers.  Papers with 70 to 79 percent score are considered accepted with required major revisions.  Papers scoring below 70 are returned to the authors with constructive comments.  Each author of a paper not accepted is given a written notice of the action taken on his/her paper.

From the pool of articles reviewed, six or more papers are reviewed again by the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor. If more revisions are required, the papers are sent back to the authors for revision and re-submission. The Editorial Board of the APBEP reserves the right to keep copies of all papers submitted.

Direct submissions to APBERS are also welcome provided that the papers qualify for the thematic issues.  Authors of direct submission must then be a member of APBERS to commence the peer review process and eventually publish.

SUBMISSION OF INITIAL MANUSCRIPT

Manuscripts submitted must not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors may e-mail their submissions to the Editor at cortezm@apu.ac.jp

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