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Author Guidelines

1. Manuscript Guidelines
   Types of Manuscript: Empirical and Conceptual
   Language: The manuscript must be written in good academic English. Spelling follows Webster’s International Dictionary. To ensure an anonymous review, the authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their papers. A single author should not use the word “we”. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. Make sure that the manuscript does not have language errors more that 250 and 5% of plagiarism indicators.
   Article Length: The paper should be written around 5000-7000 words, including figures, tables, and appendix.
   Format: The manuscripts should be typed in A4 (210 mm x 297 mm), with 12-point Calibri Font and must be 1.5 lined-spaced, except for indented quotations. The Manuscript must be saved as a word file. All the pages, tables, appendices, and references should be serially numbered. Spell out number from one to ten, except when used in tables and list, and when used with mathematical, statistical, scientific or technical units and quantities, such as distances, weights, and measures.
   Artwork: The author must provide high-quality artwork for all illustrations. Poor resolution or definition are not acceptable. Table and Figure should be numbered separately. (Table 1, Table 2; Figure 1, Figure 2). Figure are allowed a maximum of 40% of the content.
   Each table and figure should be given a title and should be presented on a separate page at the end of the manuscript. Figure and tables reproduced from already published work must be listed with permission from the original publisher (or copyright holder if not the publisher).
   Equations: Math equations submitted as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that must be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).
2. Structure of the Manuscript
   Title: The title should summarize the main idea of your paper, the title is within 16 words maximum
   Author(s) name: Please mention the name/s of author’s, completed with her/his/their affiliation using number/s in the example template. The email address of the first author should be mentioned for correspondence purposes.
   Research Paper Guidelines
   The Research Paper can be written in English around 5000-7000 words.
   Abstract: It covers objective of study, data/object of study, methodology, result or conclusion. It must be written in good English and includes 5 keywords. References/citation should be avoided in abstract. It is written from 150 up to 200 words. Do not exceed the abstract word limit of the journal to which you are submitting your article.
   Keyword: Maximum 5 keywords
   Introduction: It covers background of study, motivation in writing the paper, problems, brief literature review that relates directly to research or previous findings that need to be developed, and ended with a paragraph of research purposes. It should be written in paragraphs.
   When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent the author’s information or opinions accurately and in your own words. Even when paraphrasing an author’s work, you still must provide a citation to that work. When directly quoting an author’s work, provide citation marks at the beginning till the end of the citation, and page number is necessary to be noted beside the name of the author and year of publication.
   Literature Review: There are three points will be discussed in literature review, the basic theory, previous study and hypothesis/propositions from previous study preferable published in the last 10 years. A literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated.
   Methodology: The research method should appropriate with the statement of the research problem. It should cover the method used, measurement instrument, sampling method, data collection technique, and data analysis. The research method should written in paragraphs. Technical information and data is described clearly.
   Result and Discussions: The result must be describe informative result of empirical research which are written systematically and critically. Table and figure can be presented in this part to support the discussion.
   Discussion should argumentative and point out about the findings, theories, previous study, and empirical facts which relevant and contributes to knowledge of management and business. The purposes of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significance of your findings.
   Conclusion: Conclusions should answer the objectives of the research. Without clear conclusions, reviewers and readers will find it difficult to judge the paper or the work. Do not repeat the Abstract or just list experimental results. Provide a clear scientific justification and mention possible application in this part. You need identify limitation and also suggest future research.
   Acknowledgments (optional): Give credit to funding bodies and departments that have been of help during the project, for instance by supporting it financially.
   Reference: Data, information, and citation should be over the last 10 years with 80% citation should be from primary sources. The more primary references that paper has, the more qualified the paper will be. It should be written by using standard citation application (e.g. Mendeley, Endnote, or Zotero). The reference should be written in APA 6^th style.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor)
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the reference have been provided
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustration, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirement outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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