EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies

Vol. 28, No. 1 (2023)

Manuscript Submission
and Information for Authors
Copyright
Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright andwill indemnify the publisher against any
breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to ensure proper policingof use, papers become the legal copyrightof the publisher unless otherwise agreed.
Submissions
Manuscripts under review at anotherjournal cannot be simultaneously submitted to EJBO. The article cannot have beenpublished elsewhere, and authors are obligated to inform the Editor of similar
articles they have published. Articles submitted to EJBO could be written in English or in Finnish. Paper written in Finnish must be included English summary of
200-500 words. Submissions should besent as an email attachment and as Microsoft Word doc format to:

Business and Economics at the Universityof Jyväskylä in Finland.
Reviewing process
Each paper is reviewed by the Editorin Chief and, if it is judged suitable forpublication, it is then sent to at least one
referee for blind review. Based on therecommendations, the Editor in Chief
decides whether the paper should be accepted as is, revised or rejected.
The process described above is a general one. The editor may, in some circumstances, vary this process.
Special issues

Professor Tuomo Takala
Jyväskylä University School of Businessand Economics, Finlandemail: tuomo.a.takala@jyu.fi

The special issue contains papers selectedfrom• the spesific suitable conferences or• based on a certain relevant theme
The final selection is made by the Editor in Chief, with assistance from theEJBO’s Editorial team or from Conference Editorial team. In the case of conference papers, articles have already beenreviewed for the conference and are notsubjected to additional review, unlesssubstantial changes are requested by theEditor.

Editorial objectives

Manuscript requirements

Electronic Journal of Business Ethics
and Organization Studies EJBO aims toprovide an avenue for the presentationand discussion of topics related to ethical issues in business and organizations
worldwide. The journal publishes articles
of empirical research as well as theoretical and philosophical discussion. Innovative papers and practical applications toenhance the field of business ethics arewelcome. The journal aims to provide aninternational web-based communication
medium for all those working in the fieldof business ethics whether from academic
institutions, industry or consulting.
The important aim of the journal is toprovide an international medium which isavailable free of charge for readers. The
journal is supported by Business and Ethics Network BON, which is an officiallyregistered non-profit organization in Finland. EJBO is published by the School ofThe manuscript should be submitted indouble line spacing with wide margins
as an email attachment to the editor. The
text should not involve any particular formulations. All authors should be shown
and author's details must be printed ona first sheet and the author should not beidentified anywhere else in the article.
The manuscript will be considered to bea definitive version of the article. The author must ensure that it is grammaticallycorrect, complete and without spellingor typographical errors.
As a guide, articles should be between
5000 and 12000 words in length. A titleof not more than eight words should beprovided. A brief autobiographical noteshould be supplied including full name,affiliation, e-mail address and full international contact details as well as a short
description of previous achievements.
Authors must supply an abstract which

Editor in Chief3should be limited to 200 words in total. In addition, maximum six keywords
which encapsulate the principal topics ofthe paper should be included.
Notes or Endnotes should be not beused. Figures, charts and diagrams should
be kept to a minimum. They must be
black and white with minimum shading
and numbered consecutively using arabic
numerals. They must be refereed explicitly in the text using numbers.
References to other publications
should be complete and in Harvard style.
They should contain full bibliographicaldetails and journal titles should not beabbreviated.
References should be shown within thetext by giving the author's last name followed by a comma and year of publication
all in round brackets, e.g. (Jones, 2004).
At the end of the article should be a reference list in alphabetical order as follows(a) for books

surname, initials and year of publication, title, publisher, place of publication:
Lozano, J. (2000), Ethics and Organizations. Understanding Business Ethics as a
Learning Process, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
(b) for chapter in edited booksurname, initials and year, “title", editor's surname, initials, title, publisher,place, pages: Burt, R.S. and Knez, M.
(1996), "Trust and Third-Party Gossip",in Kramer, R.M. and Tyler, T.R. (Eds.),
Trust in Organizations. Frontiers of Theory and Research, Sage, Thousand Oaks,
pp. 68-89.
(c) for articles

surname, initials, year "title", journal,volume, number, pages: Nielsen, R.P.
(1993) "Varieties of postmodernism asmoments in ethics action-learning", Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp.
725-33.
Electronic sources should include theURL of the electronic site at which they
may be found, as follows:
Pace, L.A. (1999), "The Ethical Implications of Quality", Electronic Journal ofBusiness Ethics and Organization Studies
EJBO,Vol. 4 No. 1. Available http://ejbo.
jyu.fi/index.cgi?page=articles/0401_2.

http://ejbo.jyu.fi/