Code of Ethics to Check Malpractices and Plagiarism

Modern Institute of Business Management ensures significant academic standards of publishing for different forms of research work. It believes in promoting healthy and ethical research culture. The institutes keep timely check on ethical practices in research and provide guidance appropriately. Institute condemns cheating, fraud, malpractice, misconduct, and violation of code or any other dishonest behavior. Institute constantly works on ensuring value based research among researchers.

Objectives

To create an academic responsiveness amongst the students, researchers and academicians about ethical code of conduct for research publications by developing academic integrity. To create academic awareness about responsible conduct of research, promotion of academic integrity and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing. To establish institutional mechanism through education and training to facilitate responsible conduct of research for promotion of academic integrity and deterrence from plagiarism. To develop systems to detect plagiarism and to set up mechanisms to prevent plagiarism.

Institutional Academic Integrity Panel

Institutional Academic Integrity Panel (IAIP) is established with the purpose of ensuring quality research and it strictly discourages dishonest and unethical practice in research, by taking in view a mandatory check of all research. IAIP panel shall take care and be responsible of the said process.

Following process is followed by the Institute:

The Institute has implemented plagiarism detection software, ‘Urkund’, to ensure that the research publications are free of plagiarism at the time of submission. Every researcher shall submit a declaration indicating that the research work is original and has been prepared by him/her only. The undertaking shall be duly supported by the plagiarism report generated through the plagiarism detection software. Institute shall take action considering the severity of the Plagiarism.

IAIP panel members

• Dr VIjayalakshmi Srinivas
• Dr Nivedita Ekbote
• Dr Shrawan Ovhal
• Mr Nilesh Bagwe