Once a submission is made the Editor will reply with an electronic message that acknowledges the receipt of the manuscript. This electronic message also indicates the manuscript number assigned to it.  This number should be cited in all future correspondence.
 
The editor will inform an author about the expected volume and issue of the journal where the paper could be published. This lets the authors feel comfortable regarding the reporting to their universities and plan their research activity effectively. We do it within three days after the paper submission.

All the papers are published in English. In the case of submission to "Problems & Perspectives in Management" and "Banks and Bank Systems" journals, the papers are also published in Ukrainian.

To submit a paper, please send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines (PDF Version) below) to the Editor of the relevant journal:

Author checking of proofs
After the paper is typeset, the publisher will furnish the authors of accepted papers with proofs for the correction of printing errors. The proofs must be returned as soon as possible; the issue to which a paper is finally assigned depends in part on the date the corrected proofs are received from the author(s). The publishers will not be held responsible for the errors which are the result of authors' oversights.

All papers are refereed by the international competent researchers. We apply "double-blind" review which is the best practice in the paper reviewing.
The reviewers' recommendations determine whether a paper will be accepted as it is, without any alteration / accepted with minor revision / rejected, but encouraged to re-write and re-submit / rejected without further consideration.
The period of reviewing is very short to let authors have a fast feedback and get to improve their papers due to the reviewer comments. The process of reviewing lasts not longer than 30 days. In comparison with other journals, we do not impose extra fees on authors for the reviewing.

 1. "A pure submission fee model". Under this model the author of a paper submitted has to enclose a payment for submission when submitting a paper to the journal. Journals do not accept papers for consideration if the paper submissio fee is not enclosed by authors. Almost all journals consider submission fee as non-refundable payment even if the paper has been rejected after reviewing. The range of fees is very high - from USD10 to USD550 with average at USD80. Some time, the journals apply extra fee for non-standard size of the paper. Thus, Japanese Journal of Farm Management says that articles and presentation papers must be accompanied by a fee of 10,000 yen. Any submissions that exceed the page limit in the final printed version will be charged 10,000 yen per extra page, i.e. 10 times higher than standard submission fee taking into account the number of pages in the paper submitted.
 2. "Fast-Track submission model". This is a version of "a pure submission fee model".  The author pays for the reduced time of reviewing his paper by reviewers. Introduced by Review of Finance, the submission fee for the paper submitted is € 800 (or the equivalent US $ amount if the submitter is US based). For a resubmitted "Fast-Track"-manuscript the submission fee is € 400 (or the equivalent US $ amount). If revisions were minor, a reduced fee of € 150 (or the equivalent US $ amount) applies. The guaranteed response time is 14 days, starting the count from the day on which valid payment information has been received from the submitting author.
3. "A membership-submission fee model". Under this model all contributors of papers when submitting their papers to the journal are asked to pay submission fee in amount depending whether the author is a member of respective association or not. Thus, the Journal of Finance which is associated to the American Finance Association applies submission fee of $70 for AFA members or $140 - for non-members. Therefore, to pay a lower submission fee authors are encouraged becoming the members of the respective association paying an extra membership fee.
4. "A subscription-submission fee model". Authors of the papers submitted to the journal are asked to subscribe to the journal and pay a discounted submission fee. Thus, all manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Political Economy must be accompanied by a $125 submission fee for non-subscribers or a $75 submission fee for JPE subscribers.
 5. "A two stage fee model", i.e. submission + acceptance fee. Non-refundable fee. Some journals like International Journal of Effective Management or Hereditas make authors enclose manuscript processing fee (non-refundable) and a page fee (flat fee) that would be charged if the paper is accepted for publication. The manuscript processing fee is called as submission fee, and flat fee is called as acceptance fee. Generally used that acceptance fee is much higher than submission fee if "a two stage fee" model is applied. Thus, International Journal of Effective Management applies submission fee as USD25 and acceptance fee as USD100. Hereditas - submission fee as EURO100 and acceptance fee as EURO730.
 6. "A per word submission fee model". All authors when submitting a paper should pay a fee calculated for number of words in their papers. As widely accepted, the average fee for 1000 words is USD15-20. Some time, journals set a limited number of words in the papers submitted. If this limit is overcome by the authors, the higher fee for extra words is applied (as usual higher than standard fee, i.e. USD40-50 for 1000 words).
 
"Refundable fee models"
 7. "A pure acceptance fee model". Under this model the author of a paper submitted has to provide a payment not for submission, i.e. when submitting a paper to the journal. The payment is made only after an official acceptance of the paper for publishing in the journal, i.e. when reviewers and editor make a decision to publish the paper. Authors have no financial loses when their papers are rejected.
 8. "A subscription-acceptance fee model". Authors of the papers accepted for publishing to the journal are asked to subscribe to the journal and avoid paying any fee, even acceptance fee. Under this model subscribers to the journal do not pay fees.
 9. "An open access-acceptance fee model". Authors of the papers accepted for publishing to the journal are asked to pay for open access to their papers placed at the web-site of the journal. In this case, acceptance fee is reduced remarkably. This facilitates the dissemination of the authors' research among the scientific community.
Publishing Company "Business Perspectives" applies models 7, 8 and 9 (one of three models by the author's choice).

Acceptance fee
In comparison with other journals, contributors to the journals of Publishing company "Business Perspectives" do not have to pay submission fee.

We offer a very democratic fee policy to our contributors. We only ask for payment from those authors whose papers have been already reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal. Therefore, all the contributors whose papers have not been accepted do not loose their money. All expenses are covered by the Publisher of the journal.

All the authors are invited to participate in an open access program. All visitors of the journal's web-site will be able to read their papers any time placed at the web-site of the Publisher. This will let the authors who seek a wide dissemination of their own research results have an excellent opportunity to do it.

Our web-site (www.businessperspectives.org) is visited per year by more than 20.000 experts in management, marketing, finance and banking from over 60 countries of the world.

1. Abstract preparation guidelines
1.1. The abstract (200-250 words) should reflect the conceptual content of the article. In the abstract the author should give a brief overview of research importance, describe the subject matter and the aim of research, its methodology as well as highlight the most significant results of research.
1.2. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classifications that can be found at http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html, and a few key words about the manuscript are necessary.
1.3. Font - Times New Roman; text size - 12 pts, line-spacing - one-and-a-half.
2. The paper main body preparation guidelines
2.1. The paper should present the result of independent original research, undertaken by the author; it should contain the data never published before.
2.2. The paper should contain a clear description of research objective and its subject.
2.3. The methodology of research should be described in detail.
2.4. The author personal scientific contribution must be grounded in the paper.
2.5. The paper should contain basic suggestions on how to solve the problem under study.
3. The structure of the paper
3.1. The title of the paper.
3.2. Below, in the centre of the page the name of the author should be printed. Reference to the author's name should be made at the bottom of the page with the footnote marked by asterisk ("*"). The reference should contain information about the author's degree, position and the place of work as well as contact details (phone number, job or/and personal e-mail).
3.3. Below, the text of the abstract should be printed.
3.4. After the abstract key words and JEL classifications should be printed.
3.5. Below you should place the main body of the paper.
3.6. The main body of the paper should be followed by references.
3.7. References contain the list of literature referred to given in alphabetical order.
3.8. All figures and tables should be printed inside the papers main body.
4. References in the text
4.1. References in the text are made as follows: (Myers, 2000), the former being the name of the author, the latter -  edition year.
4.2. Examples of references: Alchian A., S. Woodward. Reflections on the Theory of the Firm // Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 1987. - №143. - pp. 110-136. Berle A.A., G.C. Means. The Modern Corporation and Private Property. - New York: Macmillan, 1932. - 418 рр. Estrin S., A. Rosevear. Enterprise Performance and Ownership: The Case of Ukraine // European Economic Review, 1999. - №1. - pp. 1125-1136. Pinto B., S. Van Wijnbergen. Ownership and Corporate Control in Poland: Why State Firms Defied the Odds // CEPR Discussion Paper, 1995. - №1273. - 42 рр.
5. Manuscript length
5.1. The paper should not be less than 2000 words and should not exceed 6000 words.