Ethical Guidelines

Faculty of Economics, South Bohemia University in České Budějovice as a publisher of the Proceedings of the International Conference INPROFORUM is committed to the highest ethical standards. All authors, reviewers, and editors must comply with the following ethical principles. In case of any doubts regarding the Ethical Guidelines, do not hesitate to contact the editors of the proceedings.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Ethical Expectations

Editors’ Responsibilities

To acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within two working days and to ensure an efficient, fair, and timely review process. Reviewers are chosen from a number of experts on the basis of their proven qualification in the area discussed in the paper. None of the reviewers is allowed to be a member of staff of the same institution as the author or co-author of the submitted paper.
To identify manuscripts that are fully within the scope and aim of the conference. To treat all submissions fairly without any favour of prejudice regarding authors’ gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origin.
To provide advice to the authors during the submission process when necessary.
To be transparent with regards to the review and publication process with an appropriate care that individuals will not be identified when it is inappropriate to do so.
To not use any parts or data of the submitted manuscript for his or her own future research as the submitted manuscript is not published yet.
To respond immediately and take reasonable action when ethical problems occur concerning a submitted or published manuscript.
Any article that does not meet the standards, will be rejected or removed.

Authors’ Responsibilities

To carefully read the Instructions for authors published on the website of the conference.

To acknowledge and cite accordingly all content overlaps with already published content.

To ensure that the submitted manuscript is original, prepared to a high scholarly standard and fully referenced using the prescribed referencing convention.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

To immediately notify the editors whenever the reviewer feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or sees difficulties in meeting the deadline for completion of the review.
To agree to review a reasonable number of manuscripts at the same time.
To inform the editors if there is any possible conflict of interest related to the assigned manuscript. Specifically, to avoid reviewing any manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has an obvious personal or academic relationship.
To treat the manuscript in a confidential manner and to not use any parts or data of the reviewed manuscript for his or her own future research as the reviewing manuscript is not published yet.
To assist in improving the quality of the manuscript by reading the manuscript with appropriate care and attention, reviewing the manuscript objectively and being constructively critical.
To immediately notify the editors of any similarities between the reviewing manuscript and another article either published or under consideration by another journal.