Copyright and Licensing

Authors publishing in Journal of Emerging Markets and Management (JEMM) retain the copyright of their published articles.

By submitting a manuscript to JEMM and agreeing to its publication, authors grant the journal and its publisher, Nature and Information Engineering Publishing Sdn. Bhd., the right of first publication and the non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, preserve, and make the article publicly available.

Copyright ownership remains with the authors and is not transferred to the journal or publisher.

Open Access Licence

All articles published in JEMM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, users are permitted to share, copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and adapt published material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

Authors retain the right to:

- Share and distribute their published articles.
- Deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, and other academic platforms without an embargo period.
- Use their published work in teaching, research, presentations, and other scholarly activities.
- Reuse their own published work in subsequent publications, provided that the original publication in JEMM is appropriately acknowledged.
- Grant others permission to use their work in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence.

Authors are encouraged to include a reference or link to the original publication in JEMM whenever their published work is shared or reused.

Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have obtained the necessary permissions to reproduce, adapt, or use third-party copyrighted materials included in their manuscripts, where permission is required.

Such materials may include text, figures, tables, photographs, illustrations, and other copyrighted content. Authors must provide appropriate acknowledgements and clearly identify any materials that are subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

The CC BY 4.0 licence applied to an article does not automatically extend to third-party materials that are separately identified as excluded from the licence.