SBUR - Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research

The Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) has been included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science. In June 2027, the journal will receive its first impact factor.

This milestone reflects the ongoing efforts of the editors, the two sponsoring societies, and the publisher to disseminate high-quality research. It marks a crucial step in the journal’s continued development. Inclusion in the Web of Science is of particular importance for SBUR’s international visibility.

Both editors-in-chief view this as confirmation of their long-standing commitment to the journal: “We are delighted by the international recognition resulting from our inclusion in Web of Science. This allows us to offer researchers in our discipline an even more attractive outlet for their research,” says Thomas Gehrig (University of Vienna). Alfred Wagenhofer (University of Graz) adds: “The Impact Factor will provide our journal with a key indicator that further enhances our visibility in academia and professional practice.”

SBUR is the joint journal of the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration (Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.) and the German Academic Association of Business Research (Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.). It is published under a Diamond Open Access model by Springer-Verlag. SBUR is managed by the two editors-in-chief, Thomas Gehrig and Alfred Wagenhofer, together with 19 associate editors. It covers all areas of business administration.

Matthias Breuer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Matthias BREUER is Heisenberg-Professor for Corporate Reporting & Regulation at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests include financial accounting, auditing, corporate governance, valuation, and sustainability. In his research, he uses varied empirical methods and data sources to describe relevant markets and phenomena, identify effects of interventions in these markets, or test theories with reduced form or structural approaches.

Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Torsten Eymann is a Professor for Information Systems and the Digital Society at the University of Bayreuth, a director of the FIM research center and a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer FIT institute. His research interests focus on the digital transformation of higher education, healthcare and industry. His methodological expertise includes design-science research, qualitative empirical interview-based research, and simulations.

Marina Fiedler, University of Passau, Germany

Marina FIEDLER is a Professor of Management, People and Information at the University of Passau. Her research focuses on the interface of three central topics of digitization: the role of Information Systems in organizations and digital platforms; governance and management of sustainable behavior; and changes in designing work. Her work covers a methodological spectrum, including experiments, qualitative and quantitative methods.

Miriam Flickinger, FU Berlin, Germany

Miriam FLICKINGER is a Professor of Organizations at Freie Universität Berlin. Her expertise lies at the intersection of organizational theory, strategy, and corporate governance. Her research is based on behavioral theories and, therefore, deals primarily with cognitive, emotional, and social phenomena in management.

Ju-Young Kim, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Ju-Young KIM is a Professor of Marketing Management at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on online marketing and pricing. Methodologically, her work is empirical-quantitative and employs experimental and survey-based research as well as the analysis of transactional data.

Martin Klarmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Martin KLARMANN is a Professor of Marketing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His key research interests are marketing methods, marketing strategy, B2B marketing, and sales management. His methodological expertise covers survey research methods (especially structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling and factor analysis), text mining, and meta-analyses.

Kristina Klein, University of Bremen, Germany

Kristina KLEIN is a Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behavior at the University of Bremen. Her research interests cover consumer behavior/psychology, branding, and digital transformation topics that touch upon the changes in consumers behavior. Her methodological expertise is primarily in experimental research method, but as her work is empirical-quantitative of nature her methodological spectrum also covers survey research or multilevel modeling.

Rainer Niemann, University of Graz, Austria

Rainer NIEMANN is a Professor of Accounting and Taxation at the University of Graz. His expertise includes tax effects on investment and finance, taxation under uncertainty, and international taxation. His methodological expertise is mainly economic modeling, theory, and normative.

Jana Oehmichen, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Jana OEHMICHEN is a Professor of Organization, Human Resources, and Management Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research covers international corporate governance, strategic leadership, incentive systems, strategic change, and digital strategy. Her work is mainly quantitative (multivariate econometrical analyses) and conceptual (agency theory, institutional and resource-based approaches).

Georg Reischauer, WU Wien, Austria

Georg REISCHAUER is an Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests lie at the intersection of strategic management, organization theory, and sustainability management, with an emphasis on the implications of digital technologies. Topics of interest include algorithmic management, ecosystems, institutional innovation, organization design, and platforms. He specializes in qualitative methods and qualitative research designs.

Christian Schlereth, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Christian SCHLERETH is Professor of Digital Marketing at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. His research focuses on data-driven decision-making in digital markets and the economic evaluation of digital technologies. His methodological expertise includes quantitative empirical methods, experiments, and analytics. He developed DISE, a survey platform with a focus on advanced preference measurement and discrete choice experiments (http://www.dise-online.net/demo.aspx).

Eva Schliephake, Católica Lisbon School of Economics & Business, Portugal

Eva SCHLIEPHAKE joined Católica Lisbon in September 2019 as an Assistant Professor in Finance. Before she was affiliated at the University of Bonn and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, as well as, a ECB Lamfalussy Fellow at the ECB and a visiting scholar at the IMF. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Magdeburg. During her Ph.D, she was visiting the GSE UPF, Barcelona. Her research focuses on the impact of regulation on financial and economic stability under the influence of changing market structures and institutional frameworks. She has published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, International Journal of Central Banking and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Thomas Spengler, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Thomas S. SPENGLER is a Professor of Production and Logistics Management at the TU Braunschweig. His research interests cover operations management, supply chain management, sustainability management and recycling. His research mainly focuses on the development and application of operations research models and methods for decision support in industry and the mobility sector.

Pavlos Symeou, Cyprus University of Technology, Zypern

Pavlos SYMEOU is a Professor of Strategy at Cyprus University of Technology. His research concentrates on three interconnected domains, namely corporate strategy, global strategy, and corporate responsibility. In each of these areas, he leverages real market environments to evaluate prevailing theories, propose theoretical advancements, or identify practical managerial issues suitable for empirical investigation. His latest projects particularly focus on competitive dynamics and their impact on the environmental innovation of multinational corporations in the global extractive industries.

Marliese Uhrig-Homburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Marliese UHRIG-HOMBURG is a Professor of Finance at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research focusses on asset pricing, derivatives, risk management, liquidity, energy finance, and cryptocurrencies. She covers both empirical capital market research and capital market theory as well as financial modelling.

Kristina Vaarst Andersen, University of Southern Denmark

Kristina VAARST ANDERSEN is an Associate Professor of Integrative Innovation Management at University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include innovation strategy and business development, and has a strong focus on new technology, localized innovation, and different systems and networks of innovation. Her methodological expertise covers econometrics, network analysis, qualitative methods, and mixed method design.

Guido Voigt, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Guido VOIGT is a Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Hamburg. His expertise includes contracting in supply chains, closed-loop supply chain management and remanufacturing, and behavioral operations management. Methodologies are mainly non-cooperative game-theory, behavioral modelling, and experimental economics.

Claudia B. Wöhle, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

Claudia B. WÖHLE is a Professor of Financial Management and Financial Services at the University of Salzburg. Her main research interests are in corporate finance, sustainable finance, banking, and management accounting and control. Her research mainly focuses on methods for decision support in the financial services sector.

Florian Zapkau, WU Wien, Austria

Florian ZAPKAU is a Professor for International Business at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research is at the intersections of internationalization and entrepreneurship, focusing on SMEs and young firms. He investigates firms' strategic decisions in the internationalization process and their outcomes. He also analyzes how learning affects firms' future foreign market entries. Finally, he is interested in cognitions, heuristics, and biases in decision-making contexts in IB and entrepreneurship. Methodologically, his work is mainly quantitative-empirical.

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