ISSN 2306-9155

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

 

Scope and policy

Scope

The Scientific Journal “Retos de la Dirección”, created in 2007 by Dr. C. Ramón González Fonte, is a product of the Center for Business and Territorial Management Studies (CEDET), attached to the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz” University of Camagüey.
It is a publication aimed at scientists, academics and professionals linked to the theory and practice of business and public administration, as well as national and foreign individuals and institutions that may benefit from or contribute to it, hence its international scope. Likewise, it constitutes a platform for the socialization of knowledge for the scientific community through its social and academic networks. It promotes the policy of equity, diversity and inclusion.
The journal contributes to develop in the academic community a culture of analysis and scientific debate, through interaction technologies that allow collective participation such as discussion forums, chat, etc. Likewise, it allows the self-archiving of published articles once the evaluation process is concluded and their publication is approved, which can be done in: institutional repositories, thematic repositories or personal web pages. In this way, “Retos de la Dirección” becomes a means of inter-institutional exchange and alliances inside and outside Cuba.

The general objective of the Scientific Journal “Management Challenges” is to promote the theory and practice of business and public administration, as well as the dissemination of results related to Science, Technology and Innovation activities that contribute to the improvement of management in its broadest sense.
The contributions to be published should respond to the following thematic profile:

·         Management of business and public, for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.

·         Technology, artificial intelligence and data science as support for decision making.

·         Management of innovation, change and organizational transformation processes for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

·         Multidisciplinarity for the management of social, governmental and business processes.

Mission: To disseminate knowledge resulting from research related to Science, Technology and Innovation activities in Cuba and the rest of the world, as well as the exchange of experiences and best practices that contribute to the development of the theory and practice of business and public administration with an impact on academic and scientific circles and society.

Vision: We are a leading journal in the dissemination and socialization of the best experiences and best practices, which with high visibility and credibility in relation to business and public administration, is consolidated as a national and international reference for scientific research, teaching and technical-professional training of managers and executives.

Editorial policy

The journal reserves the right, after consultation with the authors, to make any editorial changes it deems appropriate. Once the editorial process has begun, new versions will not be accepted. The exchange of information between the journal and the authors of an article will be done only through the declared author of correspondence. We emphasize that failure to comply with the rules of presentation will result in the rejection of the article.

Retos de la Dirección follows a rigorous procedure of control of the originals received to avoid bad scientific practices and guides its users to maintain a correct ethics in the publication.

In this regard, the journal's editorial committee, during the evaluation process, offers reviewers and referees the possibility of using anti-plagiarism tools, with the aim of being strict in the detection of fraudulent actions and bad practices, in order to ensure compliance with the quality standards of the publication and maintain the original and unpublished nature of the published results.

If during the editorial process plagiarism or lack of scientific ethics is discovered, the author will not be allowed to publish again in the journal for the time established by the committee appointed to deal with the case. Similarly, in cases of violations in the declaration of originality. In the measures to be applied, the respect and protection of the moral integrity of those involved will be taken into account. Published articles may not appear in any mass media.

The Scientific Journal “Retos de la Dirección” accepts and includes in its issues the following types of articles:

- Editorials
- Letters to the Editor
- Semblances
- Historicals
- Original articles
- Review articles
- Experiences and best practices
- Case studies

Open access policy

Retos de la Dirección is a journal that offers free open access to all its content. It is based on the principle that this form of access contributes to the socialization of scientific knowledge, which favors the global exchange of knowledge. The authors of scientific articles can, completely free of charge, send their works, which will be submitted to the process of arbitration, editing and publication under this same principle.

The license (CC BY-NC) Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 is adopted, internationally assumed by the collections of open access scientific journals, as recommended by the Budapest Declaration, which can be consulted at: Budapest Open Access Initiati'sve definition of Open Access.

The journal does not charge submission or processing fees for manuscripts. Management Challenges does not charge any submission, processing or publication fees. In addition, it does not have a fee waiver policy. It is available in electronic format in the Intranet of the University of Camagüey “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz”. The ISSN of its printed version is 1997-3837 and that of its online version is 2306-9155.

It also participates in the initiatives in favor of open access to scientific information promoted by the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003), adhering to the Open Access paradigm, defined in international declarations as free access to scientific literature through the Internet, respecting existing copyright laws, which allows it to be aligned with the philosophy of the Open Science movement.

Publishing policy

The evaluation process of Retos is consistent with the basic requirements of scientific publications and is distinguished by high rigor, all articles published in the journal are previously submitted for review by one or more members of the Editorial Board (preliminary review). They are then sent to two content experts, depending on the subject matter, who evaluate them using the Open Peer Review method (double refereeing). Next, the author makes the pertinent corrections to the article (author's correction). After this step, one of the referees or another designated evaluator verifies that the author has made the points made by the referees with quality (quality control). Finally, the manuscript goes through the editing, proofreading and copy-editing process (editorial production).

For more information regarding the publication of an article please contact: https://retos.reduc.edu.cu/index.php/retos/politicadepublicacion

Preprints policy

A preprint may be submitted to the journal before or at the same time as submission to a preprint repository.

The lead author must inform the journal's editorial board that the version of the article being submitted has been previously or simultaneously submitted to a preprints server.

Authors are responsible for the information contained in the final version that will be published in the preprints server, and in no case does the journal guarantee exact similarity with the version published after its arbitration process, nor that the preprints document complies with the policies set forth in its editorial guidelines and ethical precepts.

The approval or rejection of the document in the preprints repository is not a binding element. therefore, the journal reserves the right to approve or reject the document if the process the document if the refereeing process deems it necessary.

Publication ethics

The article should not contain fragments of texts from previously published works or works in process of publication in journals or other media without due citation. If they are from the author/s themselves, they are considered self-citations. Up to 15% of self-citations are allowed in an article.

Any ethical violation related to the study or research will be resolved using the protocols established by the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publication (COPE), available at: http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf.

For more information on this topic, please contact: https://retos.reduc.edu.cu/index.php/retos/eticadepublicacion

 Submission of manuscript

The submission of a manuscript will be done exclusively online through the OJS platform of the journal. To do so, the author must register in the journal and then access it with his/her user. Once on the platform, the author must complete all the metadata requested so that the journal can have the required information about the authors and the manuscript. For the electronic submission of a manuscript, the instructions available in the Guide for Authors and the Manuscript Template should be consulted and followed.

Throughout the article's transit through the journal's editorial flow, the exchange between authors and members of the journal's work team will take place in the virtual environment of the platform. The fact of sending and receiving the pertinent corrections through the online submission system implies agreement with the policies of Retos de la Dirección and, among other aspects, agreement with the following ethical and rigorous assumptions:

·         The submitted manuscript is original and has not been previously published nor is it being evaluated for publication in another journal.

·         The manuscript complies with all the publication standards of the journal Retos de la Dirección.

·         The manuscript complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guide for Authors and the Manuscript Template.

·         The documents cited in the manuscript are issued by authoritative sources such as: prestigious organizations recognized by national or international bodies; national or international peer-reviewed scientific journals; repositories, as well as books and other documents that provide elements that identify authors or editors responsible for the published contents.

·         The main author of the manuscript is responsible for all its contents and declares that there is no plagiarism, conflicts of interest or ethical conflicts, releasing the Journal from any ethical and legal commitment.

Retos de la Dirección provides free and immediate access to its contents. This means that the authors transfer the copyright to the journal, so that the contents can be copied and distributed by any means, as long as the authors are acknowledged, no commercial use is made of the works and no modification is made to the contents without prior authorization.

Rights of author

Authors who publish in the journal Retos de la Dirección agree to the following terms:

·         Authors retain copyright, guaranteeing Retos de la Dirección journal the right to first publication of the work they submit to the journal for submission to the editorial process.

·         Authors are aware that their work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license that allows others to share it with an acknowledgement of authorship of the work and its initial publication in this journal.

·         The authors assign to the journal Retos de la Dirección the exploitation rights of the work published in this journal, authorizing it for the exercise of free reproduction, distribution and public communication for non-commercial purposes.

·         The authors are aware that their work will be stored in servers and reproduced in digital format for its incorporation into institutional repositories and databases that will provide free and open access to the full text of the work.

·         Authors may distribute the version of the work published in the journal Retos de la Dirección immediately after its publication (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an express acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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