About the Journal

REVISTA LÚMINA (ISSN: 0123-4072 // e-ISSN: 2619-6174)

EDITORIAL POLICY

Focus and Scope

LÚMINA is a journal that publishes original articles of research, reflection and bibliographic review on Development and Organizations. The journal is edited and financed since 1996 by the Faculty of Accounting, Economics and Administrative Sciences of the University of Manizales. Its objective is to disseminate and promote empirical and theoretical academic production that provides new research perspectives and advances in knowledge in the fields of interest.

The journal is open and flexible to the discussion of issues of Development and Organizations from different epistemological and methodological positions that promote a critical analysis of theories, lines of research, policies and practices of accounting, economics and management. The topics addressed in the journal Lúmina include, but are not limited to: Management and Strategy; Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness; Sustainability and Environment; Social Responsibility; Trust; Social Control; Integrated Biosystems; Governance; Citizenship; and Risk Management.

The journal is a space open to academic debate in its own right and to that extent sets the present publication criteria, which will act as editorial regulations.

Only unpublished work, will be received. Articles must demonstrate a process of investigation and academic reflection which rigorously defends the approach of the author(s) to the topic presented.

Types of articles published

• Research articles: documents which present original research project results, in detail. The structure generally employed contains four important parts: the introduction, methodology, results, and conclusions.
• Reflection articles: documents which present research results from an analytical, interpretative, or critical perspective of the author(s), on a specific topic, supported by original sources.
• Review articles: documents which result from an research where the results of published or unpublished studies in a given scientific or technological field are analyzed, systemized, and consolidated, so as to discover advances and development tendencies. They are characterized by the presentation of a careful bibliographical review, with at least fifty references.
• Short articles: brief documents which present the original preliminary or partial results of a scientific or technological research, and generally requires rapid dissemination.
• Case studies: documents which present the results of a study regarding a particular situation, in order to make known the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific year. Includes a commented systematic review of literature regarding similar cases.
• Topic reviews: documents which results from a critical literature review regarding a specific topic.
• Letters to the editor:Critical, analytical or interpretative positions regarding documents published in the journal which, in the opinion of the editorial committee, constitute important contributions to the scientific community’s discussion of the topic.

Publication Frequency

The periodicity of the journal Lúmina is annual, to freely access the content of the magazine and without cost you can enter through the main page of the journal:

https://revistasum.umanizales.edu.co/ojs/index.php/Lumina/issue/archive

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open, free, and immediate access to its content, under the principle of making investigation available to the public, thus promoting greater interchange of global knowledge.

the creative commons 4.0 non-commercial, no derivatives attribution license.

Copyright Policy

All authors who publish an article in the journal will be covered by the Creative Commons 4.0 license code of non-commercial attribution without derivatives. 

This work is covered under the licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

Conflicts of Interest

Upon submission of the article, the author(s) must also complete the "Declaration of originality and authorship" form, a document that will certify the originality of the work, ensure that there is no conflict of interest and declare that copyright law has been considered and adhered to.

The author(s) will ensure that the information is correctly referenced by citing all authors mentioned in the manuscript. The research must demonstrate the use of bioethical standards such as the approval of the bioethics committee and must include the informed consent form, if required by the research.

Upon approval of the article, the author must duly send the completed document entitled "Assigned declaration of author's economic rights" with which he/she will accept the transfer of rights to the journal.

The author(s) are responsible for all published information, not the Revista Lúmina, nor the institution that endorses it, in this case the University of Manizales. 

Submission, review and publication costs policy (APCS)

In order to promote all publication opportunities and to free any access barriers, it is our policy to not make any monetary charge for submission, review, correction or publishing of articles featured in the magazine.

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)

Lúmina adheres to the principles that regulate free access to the contents published within the magazine. All readers have the right to read, copy, download, print, share or establish links with the complete contents of any article published in any edition of the magazine.

Self-Archive politics

The journal allows the self-archiving of papers when these are published, these can be exhibited in digital repositories, websites or blogs.

Financial sources

Universidad de Manizales finances fully editorial processs.

Universidad de Manizales