MANOVA: The Journal of Management and Innovation implements a double-blind peer-review process, where the identities of authors and reviewers are kept anonymous. The journal assigns a minimum of two reviewers, with the option to assign more if needed, to ensure thorough and unbiased evaluations of manuscripts.

Manuscripts submitted to MANOVA will undergo a selection and assessment process by the Board of Editors to ensure their accordance with the writing guidelines, focus, and scope and that they are of excellent academic quality.  The manuscripts will be reviewed using the double-blind peer review method, in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities. 

 

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guidelines, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected. 

 

Peer review. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will then be delivered to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within three four to five weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage. 

 

Reviewer’s decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations: 

1. Accepted means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication;
2. Accepted with minor revisions means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns;
3. Accepted with major revisions means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised;
4. Rejected means that the manuscript is unacceptable for publication or that the given reviews relate to very basic issues.

The editorial board will consider the reviewer’s decision to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. 

 

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. Authors are allotted four weeks to revise manuscripts accepted with major revisions. Meanwhile, two weeks is allotted for revisions for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions. When returning the revised manuscript, the author is required to fill in and attach the review summary form.  

 

Final decision. At this stage, the editorial board will re-evaluate the manuscript to ensure that the author has revised it in response to the reviewers’ concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary. 

 

Proofread. Once the Board of Editors has deemed the manuscript acceptable, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality. 

 

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.