Declaration of Competing Interest

DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTERESTS FOR AUTHORS

Declare conflicts of interest or state. Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgments of potential bias, Journal of Emerging Business Management and Entrepreneurship Studies (JEBMES) requires reviewers and authors to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described. The corresponding author is responsible for submitting a competing interests statement on behalf of all authors of the paper.

Definition

For the purposes of this policy, competing interests are defined as financial and non-financial interests that could directly undermine, or be perceived to undermine, the objectivity, integrity, and value of a publication through a potential influence on the judgments and actions of authors with regard to objective data presentation, analysis, and interpretation.

Financial competing interests

Financial competing interests include (but are not limited to):

  1. Receiving reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the publication of the article, either now or in the future.
  2. Holding stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the publication of the article, either now or in the future.
  3. Holding, or currently applying for, patents relating to the manuscript's content.
  4. Receiving reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that holds or has applied for patents relating to the manuscript's content.

Non-financial competing interests

Non-financial competing interests include (but are not limited to) political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, and intellectual competing interests.

Example of competing interest statements:

"I/We have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

 

DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTERESTS FOR REVIEWERS

We ask that all reviewers disclose both 'Non-Financial' and 'Financial' Competing Interests that might lead a reasonable person to question whether your interpretation of the data or of the article may have been influenced by your personal or financial relationship with other people or organizations. For every peer review report submission, you must state whether you have any competing interests, and if you disclose that you do have some, you must provide details.

All competing interests that are declared will be displayed against your peer review report. If no competing interests are provided, the line: ‘No competing interests were disclosed’ will be added to your report. If you are unsure whether you have a competing interest, please contact our editorial office at jebmesppm@gmail.com 

When deciding if you have a competing interest, it might be helpful to consider the following examples, but note that this is not an exhaustive list:

Financial competing interests

  • In the past five years have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the online listing of this work, either now or in the future? Is such an organization financing the work presented in this article or its presentation at a conference? If so, please specify. 
  • Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organization that may in any way gain or loses financially from the online listing of this work, either now or in the future? If so, please specify.
  • Do you hold or are you currently applying for any patents relating to the content of the work? Have you received reimbursements, fees, funding, or salary from an organization that holds or has applied for patents relating to the content of the work? If so, please specify.
  • Do you have any other financial competing interests? If so, please specify.

Non-financial competing interests

  • Are you a current collaborator with any of the authors of the paper in question, or have you been in the past 3 years?
  • Have you co-authored a paper with any of the authors of the paper in question in the past 3 years?
  • Are there any other non-financial competing interests (political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, intellectual, commercial or any other) to declare in relation to your assessment of this work? If so, please specify.

Example of competing interest statements:

"No competing interests were disclosed"