About the Journal

Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) is an open-access international journal that promotes studies in Business and Finance. Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) is open access, peer-reviewed, and refereed journal published by Bussecon International Academy. BUSSECON International Academy is a scientific venue for international scholars. We are a scholarly ideas-driven organization. At BUSSECON International Academy, we publish research papers and studies in the field of Business, Social Science & Economics. 

Focus and Scope

Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) aims to provide a scientific base for international scholars and researchers in the field of business and finance. Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes manuscripts online quarterly in English. Journal welcomes manuscripts on a broad range of topics including business strategy, corporate governance, organizational theory, finance, banking, accounting, marketing, human resources, innovation, leadership, organizational culture, logistics and relevant subjects in the business ecosystem which shape strategic thinking and organizational design in business and finance.

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer-Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Process for submission to the journal consists of a review, typically a blind peer review, followed by a section editor's decision to accept or decline the submission. If accepted in the Review stage of the Editorial Process, the submission then goes through the Editing stage which consists of copyediting, layout, and proofreading.

Then the submission is scheduled for publication in an issue of the journal. Depending on how the journal has been organized, the Editorial Process can be conducted by a single Editor or by a team of Editors, Sections Editors, Copyeditors, Layout Editors, and Proofreaders. Following the receipt of payment, an official acceptance letter will be provided.

The Journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. Submitting research by all authors means that they assured their manuscripts are original and attest that the submitted papers represent their contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works.

Plagiarism Screening Policy

All submissions will be checked by iThenticate before being sent to reviewers according to the Journal’s Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism Policy.

Publication Frequency

Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) is published online quarterly by Bussecon International which is an academic platform for international scholars. Business Ecosystem and Strategy (IJBES) publishes quarterly in English.

Open Access Policy

The Journal aims to promote the development of global Open Access to scientific information and research under the Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International license.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge, meaning:

• everyone has free and unlimited access to the full text of articles published in this journal; manuscripts are freely available without subscription or price barriers
• papers are immediately released in open-access format (no long waiting periods),
• Open Access publication is supported by authors' institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Fee (APF) for accepted articles.

High Visibility and High Availability - free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the internet without any restrictions.

Open Access publications are more frequently cited due to their high publicity and availability.

Publications are also more easily searchable in search engines and indexing databases.

Publication - accepted papers are published online. The average publication time is around 6 weeks from submission. Please note that IJBES is not a pay-to-publish journal and does not state any quick publication. If it is required, the review process may be subject to several rounds.

The definition of OA introduced in the original BOAI:

By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Journal’s open access policy is committed to the recommendations and standards of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Archiving

This journal utilizes the PKP PLN LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Indexing

IJBES is registered and indexed in EBSCO, Index Copernicus(Journals Master List), ProQuest, ProQuest(ABI/INFORM), ProQuest IBSS, ProQuest Social Sciences Database W.H.O. Mendeley, RePEc, EDIRC, Econpapers, IDEAS, BASE, SCILIT, Dimensions, Scope Database, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, DRJI, EconBIZ, WorldCat, OAI, Sherpa/Romeo and Asos Index. 

Waiver Policy

No fees are required from the readers. Journal only accept article processing fee for accepted papers to cover publication costs.  Based on Bussecon International Academy's (BIA) waiver policy, the BIA considers applying a %15 discount to those authors only from countries listed by HINARI; %15 for reviewers; and free of charge for editorial board members in the associated journals of Bussecon International Academy.

Copyright Notice

Authors contributing to IJBES agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International license, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear. Authors retain the copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to IJBES. The authors agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission if and when this journal publishes it.

© 2025 by the authors. Licensee Bussecon International Academy, Istanbul, Turkey. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously( except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other languages, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees for accepted papers (Article Processing Fees).

Article Processing Fee: 250.00 (USD)