Copyright and Licensing

This page describes how copyright and licensing work for articles published in the Journal of Business Strategy and Management Review (JBSMR).

Author retention of copyright

Authors retain full copyright in their published articles. By submitting to the Journal, authors grant the Journal a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the article, and to deposit metadata and full text with indexing partners and preservation archives.

License to readers

All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The license allows any user to:

  • Share: copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format;
  • Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the article, for any purpose, including commercial use;

under the following term:

  • Attribution: appropriate credit must be given, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes must be indicated. Credit must not be given in any way that suggests the authors or the Journal endorse the user or their use.

Why CC BY

The Journal uses CC BY 4.0, the most open of the Creative Commons licenses, to give research on business strategy and management the widest possible reach and reuse. There is no non-commercial restriction. Authors and readers do not need to seek separate permission to reuse published articles, including for commercial purposes, provided the attribution term above is met.

Third-party content

Where an article includes content from a third party (figures, tables, extended quotations) for which the authors do not hold the rights, authors are responsible for obtaining and supplying the necessary permissions before publication. Such content is governed by the original rights-holder's terms, not by the CC BY 4.0 license on the article as a whole.

Reuse by authors

Authors may freely reuse their own published articles, in any way, in any medium, including in their own books, theses, lectures, and websites. Authors are encouraged to deposit their articles in institutional and subject repositories and to share them through scholarly networks, with no embargo.

Article footer

The published article carries the standard copyright line in the form "© [year] The Author(s)", in line with international scholarly publishing convention, together with a statement of the CC BY 4.0 license.