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Following guidelines should be followed by authors of contributions published in Indian Management Studies Journal, including authors whose contributions were published in previous editions of the journal. For Original Submission (the version submitted by the author before peer review), for Accepted Manuscript (version updated to include the author’s revisions after peer review, prior to any typesetting for the journal) and for Final Published PDF (copy-edited and typeset Publisher’s PDF, the same version published on the journal’s website) you may use them in the following ways: • in relation to your own teaching, provided that any electronic distribution maintains restricted access.
• to share on an individual basis with research colleagues, provided that such sharing is not for commercial purposes.
• in your dissertation or thesis, including where the dissertation or thesis will be posted in any electronic Institutional Repository or database.
• in a book authored or edited by you, at any time after the Contribution’s publication in the journal.

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