26 March 2020
From 1 January 2021, the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft (SG) and the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) will jointly publish the Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) as part of Springer Nature's portfolio. The aim of the cooperation is to create a new academic journal with international appeal covering all areas of business and management. SBUR commits to open science and will be published as a fully open access journal (Gold OA).
With the creation of SBUR, the English-language journals Business Research of VHB and Schmalenbach Business Review of SG will merge. The previous Editors-in-Chief, Thomas Gehrig of the University of Vienna, and Alfred Wagenhofer of the University of Graz, will jointly take over the editorial management of SBUR.
The journal will build on ZfbF (Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung), one of the oldest business journals in German, and will turn it into a forward-looking, international format. The first volume of SBUR will therefore start with Volume 73. Articles will be published in English language only.
The three journals merged to form SBUR were already part of Springer Nature’s portfolio of Business & Management publications.