About the Journal

The journal Mednarodno inovativno poslovanje = Journal of Innovative Business and Management (MIP=JIBM) with a serial number ISSN 1855-6175 obtained from the ISSN International Centre has been published by DOBA University of Applied Sciences Maribor, Slovenia since 2009.

The journal operates as a fully Open Access scholarly and professional journal following the principles of Diamond Open Access. This means that the full text of all published articles is immediately and freely accessible in its entirety to all users, without any costs or access fees for users or their institutions.

The journal is open to submissions from authors regardless of their institutional affiliation, country of residence, academic status, or professional background.

All submitted manuscripts undergo double-anonymous peer review and are evaluated solely on the basis of their relevance to the journal’s scope, scholarly or professional quality, and compliance with the journal’s editorial and peer-review standards and ethical requirements.

Aims and scope
The Journal of Innovative Business and Management aims to be an academics 'and practitioners' forum in the following areas:

• economic sciences: business economics, economic growth and development, economic policy, financial economics, international cconomics, labor economics, public economics, social economics, sustainable economics, taxation;
• business sciences: accounting, banking and finance, management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, ethics in business, human resource management, innovation management, unternationalization, tourism management, change management, public relations, strategic communication, corporate social responsibility,  marketing, services management, product development management, project management, public administration;
• education sciences: education management, education technologies, education innovation, research in education.
• psychology: personnel psychology , organizational psychology, educational psychology, sport psychology, applied social psychology, conflict management, mediation and coaching , work psychology, health management, positive psychology.
• Artificial Intelligence: generative AI, machine learning, automation, IoT, emerging technologies

DOI Identification

MIP = JIBM assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each published article through Crossref. DOI identifiers provide permanent and unique links to scholarly publications, ensuring their reliable identification, citation, and long-term accessibility.

Peer review

All articles are double blind reviewed. Internationally renowned experts from the academic, research and business world are involved in the process of anonymous double blind reviews mostly as a members of the advisory international editorial board. The purpose of this is not to make it impossible for publishers to possibly not fulfill the missions of the MIP=JIBM, but to offer authors an opportunity to improve their texts using anonymous reviews in accordance with the best academic and research standards. The reviewers are not institutionally affiliated with the author of the article submitted for publication.

Peer reviews are not paid for.

Article processing charges

There are no article processing and submission charges for this journal.

Copyright and licensing

Please note that articles published up to and including Volume 18, Issue 1 (2026) were published under either the CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 licence!

Publication frequency and archivation