Author Guidelines

The main guidelines for authors in terms of article content and format are mentioned below. Please read them carefully before submitting your manuscript to the journal. 

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy aims to publish relevant interdisciplinary contributions to the theoretical development of the field of management, challenging the conventional wisdom in management and economy, or those that present empirical or design-based research results in business. Authors should integrate their papers within the focus and scope of the journal.

The journal welcomes three types of submissions, namely: conceptual papers, research articles, bibliometric analyses and literature reviews, all of them being subject to double-blind peer review. There is no Article Process Charge (APC) for the authors.

Articles submitted to Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy should be original, unpublished, and not under evaluation for publication in another journal / book. Nevertheless, extended and substantially revised versions of conference papers could be sent for consideration with proper acknowledgement. The authors are advised to search the archive of the journal in order to include in the references list papers published in the journal in connection to the paper’s topic.

Papers must have between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length, including abstract, figures, references and appendices. Papers should be submitted as Microsoft Office document.  Alongside the manuscript, two other documents filled and signed should be uploaded: Originality Statement and Copyright Agreement and Open Access License.

For original research accepted for publication additional instructions could be sent to the authors.

Before submitting your paper, please ensure that it has been carefully read for errors. If English is not your first language, please have your paper proofread by an English-speaking person. Papers will be returned if the standard of English is not considered to be good enough for publication.

The bibliographic and formatting standards to be considered: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, the 7^th edition. For examples, please download the Article Template.

When submitting an article, no author possible identification has to be provided in the content of the paper. The paper must follow the Author Guidelines and the requirements specified in the Article Template. Please note that any submitted paper that is not complying with these guidelines will be rejected on formal grounds.

Authors should register and log-in prior to submission. When registering on the platform, we recommend the authors to register themselves as readers as well. This will enable them to easily have access to all the issues of the journal.

By submitting the paper, the authors certify that the study proposed is their own, that they hold the rights to present the information included in the paper and that they give the publication rights to the publishers of the journal. All papers are checked with anti-plagiarism software.

 

Article requirements in terms of content and structure

Title

The title of the paper should accurately reflect the content of the article and should be in accordance with the scientific focus of the journal. Because search engines grant the highest importance to the titles of papers, it is crucial that authors include in the title words that should be probably used by the readers in order to search articles on the same topic. The title needs to be short (8-15 words) and contain the most important keywords of the article and illustrate the research questions rather than the research methodology. Authors should avoid superfluous words such as “A study of…”, “An analysis of…”.

Abstract

The abstract of the paper has to contain enough information for the reader to be able to appreciate the nature and the significance of the subject. For increasing the visibility of the article, it has to reiterate keywords and phrases which define the article but still, in a manner such as to avoid unnecessary repetitions. Make use of all the 300 words allocated for the abstract section and present as many details as possible to convince scholars to read the article. The abstract should be structured as follows: a) a brief introduction into the topic of the paper; b) an overview of the current state of the scientific literature on the topic; c) a presentation of research methodology and research questions; c) presentation of main results and the implications for the field; d) highlights of the contribution brought by the paper to the field of studies.

Keywords

The keywords should be listed in decreasing order of importance meant to reveal the essence of the paper and should be consistent with the title and abstract of the article. The number of keywords should be between 5-7.

Introduction

The introduction is meant to familiarize the reader with the content of the paper by reiterating the keywords. It has to deliver the purpose of the paper, state initial hypotheses, properly summarize the literature, refer to previous research, and in the last it should refer to the aspects that are to be addressed in the body of the article.

Body of the article

The article has to be the result of a research in the fields addressed by the scope of the journal. The structure of the has to be logical and clearly laid out through titles, and subtitles. In order to ease the access of the reader to the content, the article should follow the structure:  Literature review, Research methodology (should provide sufficient information to make the research replicable, data collections should be emphasized, sampling appropriate, results should be logically presented, statistics correct, all the analysis should be appropriate), Results and discussion.

Conclusions

Conclusions are necessary and they have the purpose of making a synthesis of the paper, of underlining its importance and contributions / implications, of indicating eventual limitations and future lines of research. The claims in the conclusion section should be reasonable and supported, authors should relate to initial hypotheses; the conclusions should also explain how the article contributes to knowledge advancements.

The language should be accurate and well mastered. The journal is not liable for language editing or for the correctness of the research of the authors. This is the responsibility of the authors. In case the authors do not have English as their first language, we invite them to use the professional editing services.

General editing/formatting requirements: for the full editing requirements, please download our Article Template.

 

Ethics in Publishing

When authors submit an article to MDKE, it is implied that: 1. the work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report; 2. the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; 3. the article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out; 4. if accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be submitted.

Authors should appoint a corresponding author to communicate with the journal during the editorial process. All authors should agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that the questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should only be made prior to acceptance, and only if approved by the journal editor. Requests to change authorship should be made by the corresponding author, who must provide the reason for the request to the journal editor with written confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added or removed, that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. Requests which do not comply with the instructions outlined in the form will not be considered.

The editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and provide a definitive author list at original submission.

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancy, stock ownership, honoraria, grants or any other funding. Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".

The resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format. Author signatures are not required.

Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.

It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants, scholarships and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding. If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in scientific writing upon submission of the paper. The following guidance refers only to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyze and draw insights from data as part of the research process:

• Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.
• Technology must be applied with human oversight and control and authors should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. Authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.
• Authors must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing must be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and should be placed in a new section before the references list.

The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement.