About the Journal

Aims and Scope of the journal

The journal is inclined to publish insightful articles, but not exhaustive of the following topics:

• Digital Innovation in Leading and Managing Business
• Human Resource Management and Digital Innovation
• Business and Management of Digital Innovation
• Strategic Marketing and Digital Innovation
• Digital Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism Business
• Trends in Business Analytics and Digital Marketing
• Digital Innovation in Financial Management
• Advancements of Digital Innovation in Entrepreneurship
• Digital Innovation and Corporate Governance
• Digital Innovation in International Project Management
• Cyber Security for Business Performance and the Business of Cyber Security
• Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and International Business
• Ethical and Social Implications of Digital Innovation in Business
• Digital Innovation and Sustainability Agenda
• Digital Innovation in Global Logistics Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Reviews on Theoretical Foundations of Digital Innovation in Business

The Journal aims to advance the understanding of interaction between digital innovation and business management practices. The scope of the journal encompasses a wide range of topics but is not limited to the following areas:

1. Digital Transformation and Business Models: focusing on how organisations adapt their business models in response to digital technologies and examining the integration of digital technologies into traditional business models which enables companies to enhance their value propositions and competitive advantage.

2. Innovation Management: contributing to the field of innovation management by providing insights into how digital tools and technologies facilitate innovation processes and encouraging research that examines the managerial actions necessary for implementing digital technologies.

3. Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age: addressing the emergence of digital entrepreneurship, focusing on how startups and established businesses leverage digital technologies to identify new market opportunities and drive innovation, analysing the skills and capabilities required for successful digital entrepreneurship and the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the digital landscape.

4. Business sustainability and Digital Innovation: exploring the relationship between digital innovation and business sustainability and highlighting the role of digital innovation in addressing environmental challenges and promoting sustainable economic growth.

5. Impact of Digital Capabilities on Organisational Performance: exploring the impact of digital capabilities on organizational performance with emphasis on leadership and management competencies that enable firms to respond to market changes and enhance their competitive positioning.

Peer review model

• All content submitted will be subject to editorial review, submissions which are out of scope of the journal, inadequately written or inaccurate will be rejected. 
• Original scholarly articles will be subject to a further double blind peer review.
• Feedback shall be given to the authors within 2 months after the submission of manuscripts.

Open Access Policy of the Journal

• 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.
• This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.
• Articles are licensed with a CC BY Attribution 4.0 International License.
• The author is free to: 
• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

• The authors are expected to give appropriate credit (attribution), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This should be done in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use.
• The authors are not permitted to apply any legal or technological restrictions on anything the license permits.

Research Data

• Authors are encouraged to make all data necessary to replicate their findings publicly available at the time of publication.
• Authors should include a data access statement in their submission and indicate how others may obtain access to their data. Data availability statements will be published as part of the article.
• Where ethical, legal or other reasons prevent the sharing of the dataset the authors must detail this and indicate how others may access the data.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of any article submitted and have permission to share any third-party material included in their work under a CC BY license. Authors should provide proof that the material is in the public domain or available under another compatible open license. If this is not the case, it is important to provide written permission from the copyright holder allowing the author to use and publish the work.

Ethics and misconduct

JBDI is committed to ensuring high ethical standards across all publications, author lists should reflect the roles and responsibilities set out in our submission guidance. All authors, peer reviewers and editors are expected to declare any conflict of interest relating to any submitted work. This may include financial interests, including employment, funding or personal financial interest. Authors should disclose any membership of relevant organisations. The publication takes seriously any allegation of misconduct. Cases should be brought to the attention of the editor in chief for investigation.

AI Authoring Tools & Authorship Policy

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used, and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.