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Author Guidelines

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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

1) The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal.

2) The corresponding author confirms that all authors meet authorship criteria and have approved the final manuscript.

3) A Conflict of Interest statement, and if applicable, Funding Acknowledgements have been included on the Title Page. Authors must openly disclose all sources of research funding, including the names of funding organisations, grant numbers, and the specific role of each funder (e.g., study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, manuscript preparation). All financial and non-financial competing interests that could influence the work are declared in a statement. Required statements in the manuscript. If there is no funding, state: “This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.” Otherwise refer to: 'Author Responsibilities'. Data Availability Statement (DAS) and Author contributions (CRediT taxonomy) have been included on the Title page. 

4) Where applicable, ethical approval and informed consent statements for research involving human/animal subjects are included in the manuscript.

5) If the manuscript is derived from a conference presentation/paper, thesis/dissertation, or an institutional research project, this has been clearly disclosed in the submission metadata and/or cover letter.

6) The Author(s) confirm that any use of AI tools has been explicitly declared, including the tool name and scope of use, and that the disclosure appears in the Methods or Acknowledgments section.

7) The Author(s) agrees to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) license under which the article will be published.

8) The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.docx) file format.

9) The submission .docx file has been anonymized for peer review (no author details); personal information in MS Word is inspected and removed; affiliations, acknowledgments, and funding details are removed from the anonymized manuscript

10) The manuscript follows APA 7th edition, and each in-text citation is hyperlinked to a bookmarked reference entry in the reference list.

11) Where available, DOIs and URLs have been provided for all references.

12) The Title Page contains full author names, institutional affiliations (incl. department, city, country), institutional e-mail addresses, ORCID iDs, the corresponding author marked clearly, and the organization’s ROR ID where applicable.

13) The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

14) The manuscript includes a structural Abstract (150-250 words), a list of 4-5 keywords and relevant JEL codes below the keywords. Abstract structure: Purpose: text / Design/Methodology: text / Findings: text / Practical Implications: text / Originality/Value: text. Abstract is written as a single continuous paragraph, without subheadings or section breaks.

15) The manuscript is formatted according to the journal’s required section structure (Introduction; Literature Review or Theoretical Background; Methodology; Results; Discussion; Conclusion).

16) All tables and figures must be numbered, titled, and placed within the text at appropriate points, in accordance with APA Style 7th edition.

17) Any supplementary material (e.g., datasets, appendices, instruments) is uploaded and referenced properly within the manuscript.

18) Required uploads at submission include: (1) Manuscript without authors’ details (.docx), (2) Title Page, (3) Cover Letter, (4) Article (Full manuscript). Any supplementary files are uploaded separately where applicable.

Original Research Articles

This section publishes original, rigorous theoretical and empirical research articles that significantly advance knowledge and practice in business performance, quality management, and organizational excellence. Submissions should demonstrate methodological soundness, theoretical depth, and clear practical relevance, particularly within dynamic regional economies and the intersection of global models with local realities.

All submissions to this section are subject to external double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers, following the Journal’s standard review procedure.

Review Articles

Review Articles (4,000–7,000 words) provide a critical synthesis of prior research within a clearly defined scope, highlighting key findings, disagreements, gaps, and directions for future research. Authors must state clear research question(s), objectives, and their original contribution relative to prior work.

The journal considers:

(1) Systematic Reviews (PRISMA 2020; supplementary flow diagram, checklist, and full search strategy required),

(2) Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR; supplementary flow diagram, checklist, and full search strategy required),

(3) Narrative/Integrative/Conceptual Reviews (must describe the search approach and include a summary table; a conceptual synthesis figure/model is strongly encouraged), and

(4) Bibliometric Reviews (must be reproducible and report the database and download date, full query, software used, performance analysis and at least two mapping analyses with underlying records).

All submissions to this section are subject to external double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers, following the journal’s standard review procedure. For full details, see the For Authors guidelines on the journal’s website.

Preliminary Communications

This section accepts short papers that present initial or partial results of ongoing research. Manuscripts should briefly describe the research problem, applied methods, and early findings, with an emphasis on their relevance and potential contribution to the field of business excellence. The purpose of this category is the early dissemination of new ideas and results.

All submissions in this section are subject to external double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers, following the Journal’s standard review procedure.

Conference Papers

This section accepts extended and substantially revised versions of papers previously presented at recognized scientific conferences. Only manuscripts derived from conference abstracts (not from full papers published in proceedings) are eligible for peer review.

Conference peer review alone is not sufficient for publication. All submissions in this section undergo the Journal’s standard double-anonymous external peer review process, identical to that applied to original research papers. Authors must acknowledge and cite the original conference source (including any reused tables, figures, or data). Accepted articles must include a clear statement of the conference title, date, and location.

Professional Papers

Presents valuable insights, practical knowledge, and professional experience relevant to the field covered by the journal. It is typically based on professional practice rather than original scientific research. May include case studies, practical solutions, best practices, descriptions of professional methods, standards, and processes, as well as overviews of current trends in the profession. These papers are peer-reviewed and should meet the standards of quality, relevance, and clarity set by the journal.

All submissions in this section are subject to external double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers, following the Journal’s standard review procedure.

Book Reviews and Commentary

Book Reviews and Commentary (up to 2,000 words) are typically invited contributions providing critical reviews of recent scholarly books or commentary on current issues relevant to the journal. These submissions are assessed internally by the Editorial Board and are not externally peer-reviewed.

Copyright Notice

By submitting a manuscript to Poslovna izvrsnost – Business Excellence, the Author(s) agree to the following:

All articles published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Authors retain the Copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

The published article may be shared and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided proper attribution is given to the original authors and source. For any commercial use or derivative licensing, prior permission must be obtained from the Journal's Editorial.

© The Author(s). Published by Poslovna izvrsnost – Business Excellence, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb.

For full details on licensing, open access model, and repository/self-archiving policy, please refer to the journal’s Open Access and Copyright policy.

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