IIME has a working paper series for faculty members, undergraduate students, visiting fellows, researchers and visitors. IIME welcomes unsolicited submissions of work in progress from Grant MacEwan affiliated faculty, students (with faculty approval), researchers (with faculty approval) working in any area as long as the paper submitted features a management education related topic. IIME does not take on editorial tasks, so all manuscripts must be ready for web publication at the time of submission. Please ensure the paper has been carefully proof read and cite-checked, and verify that footnotes are properly numbered and that cross-reference are correct and updated. You are asked to include a full bibliography on a separate page. Paper should be emailed as either PDF or Miscrosoft Word files to IIME@macewan.ca.
Please include a cover page, on which an abstract, subject keywords, and author contact information are shown.
Guidelines
Length:
Submitted paper should be between 5000-15000 words long inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, if any, tables etc.
Citations:
The text should be fully documented with accurate citations as set forth in the publication manual of the Grant MacEwan Academic Writing Guidelines (APA).
Format:
Canada English spelling is preferred.
Title Page:
“Title Box” 3 – 3.5 inch top margin, 2.5 inch side margins, Title lines Centered, Bold, 15 point., double-spaced, UPPER CASE Rest of title, Centered, non-bold, 13-14 pt. “School of Business” & “Grant MacEwan University”, Centered, Bold, 15.
Second page is the abstract page and is NOT numbered. Top and side margins will be set at 1inch. Bottom margin will be set at ½ inch. Two title lines in Bold, All Caps, Times New Roman, 15-16 pt. Other information at top is centered, Times New Roman, 12 pt., all single spaced.
A copyright notice must appear at bottom of second page. Copyright © by _____.
IIME Working Series Paper Review Guidelines:
First and foremost, the goal of the review process is to improve the quality of the submission. Constructive criticism is a necessary part to this effort and as such shall be offered and received in a professional manner.
There are two basic components to the review of a working paper: scientific content and quality of the presentation. Either or both of these can be grounds for rejection of the submission and both should be considered within the review. There is no simple formula for what is acceptable scientific content; however, there are some basic guidelines that generally apply.*
- Significance of results. Whenever possible, authors are expected to analyze the statistical significance of their calculations. Sample size is acting as an important role of statistical confidence limits. Verification of forecasting scheme should be extensive and any limitations to the credibility of a verification analysis need to be identified.
- Reproducibility. It should be possible for anyone reading the manuscript to reproduce the results. The manuscript, therefore, should provide any and all information necessary for a reader to repeat any analysis contained therein.
- Rigor. The rigor of the test is the primary means of judging how convincing the evidence is. Data sample size, accuracy and precision of the data, and the degree to which the data permit an unambiguous interpretation all are part of a convincing argument.
- Originality. As to the nature of working papers, it is valuable to the community if a particular piece of work can be confirmed. In particular, if the analysis methods of an already published work are reproduced, but with a different set of data, or an expanded data set, this is quite acceptable.
*Please follow APA guidelines
All submitted papers will undergo a minimal peer review to make sure that those truly unfit for publication are excluded. The minimal peer review is an open process, which means that papers are read by two faculty members of Grant MacEwan University. The minimal peer review is to make sure that all workings papers meet a minimum level of quality. It will not be a very detailed peer reviewing like for journal articles. Depending on their recommendations, one of the following will happen:
- IIME will reach a decision to publish the piece as is,
- IIME will reach a decision to publish the piece on the condition that the author make the necessary changes as described by our readers,
- IIME will decide not to publish your paper.
Regardless of our decision, and provided your paper meets our minimum requirements, we will send extensive feedback to you, on which constructive comments will be provided. In the feedback, you will be provided with an assessment of significance of results, the embeddings and relevance of your argument, originality, quality of presentation and additional secondary sources you may want to review, and include other thoughtful suggestions and critiques for you to take into account as your revise your work.
It is important for the author(s) to revise papers according to the feedback in a timely fashion. We will provide our readers and authors enough time to conduct evaluations and revisions. We require our submitters to comply with our deadlines.
Copyright
Publication as an IIME working paper does not preclude or prejudice subsequent publication in a book or journal. However, please do not submit papers that have been accepted for publication already. In such cases you have signed a copyright agreement with that publisher, and therefore give up your rights to the paper. In the case of the Working Paper Series, the author will hold the copyright and not IIME. The individual authors retain copyright privileges. IIME will merely host the author’s work.
