Aims and scope
Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) publishes original research of general interest in business administration. Authors are invited to submit theoretical as well as empirical papers which are innovative.
sbr is soliciting contributions from all fields of business administration. Traditionally, most papers are in the field of
- Accounting
- Finance
- Marketing
- Organization
- Neo-institutionalism
but this list is by no means exhaustive.
Every submission is refereed by two referees, at least one review is double-blind. Every effort is made to ensure a quick turnaround time; usually the reviewing time does not exceed 90 days. The journal's internationally composed board of editors and ad hoc referees guarantee the high quality standard of the Journal.
sbr is published quarterly (January, April, July, October), it is available in print and online. There are also special issues on selected topics of current or broad interest.
Circulation
sbr is the the official journal of the German Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., that is Schmalenbach Society of Business Administration. This society comprises university professors as well as leading practitioners of German enterprises. This association ensures a wide circulation of the Journal. Besides the subscribers of the Journal, about 2000 members of the Schmalenbach Society receive the four issues of the sbr and, in addition, eight issues of the zfbf, which is the affiliated German Journal Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (zfbf). zfbf is the most prestigious scientific journal on business administration in German language and dates back to 1906.
Paper submission
Manuscripts should be sent in duplicate, together with an data file without the author's name. The data file can be separately sent as an attachment of an e-mail. The address is:
Wolfgang Ballwieser
Managing editor of sbr
Munich School of Management
University of Munich
Ludwigstr. 28/RG
D-80539 Munich
Germany
For questions send an e-mail to sbr@bwl.uni-muenchen.de.
Submission of a paper to sbr implies that the paper is unpublished original work by the author(s) and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors declare this explicitly.
The Editor conducts a desk rejection when he believes the probability of acceptance is insufficient to cause the authors to wait for the outcome of the full review. For example, the manuscript might be a poor fit with the journal or the manuscript might fail to provide new findings over the extant literature. A maximum of one referee report will be provided.
Paper Guidelines
I. General
Submissions should not exceed 25 pages/6000 words. Please print in Times New Roman, 12 point, 1.5 spaced, left and right margin 3 cm. Accentuation in the text and the footnotes should be made by italics. Do not use bold print.
Structure
1 ((bold))
1.1 (italics)
1.1.1 ((italics))
and so on
Do not use specific abbreviations in the main text. Exceptions can be made at usually abbreviated nouns such as USA, EU, p., km, or technical terms such as Ltd., API.
Add an abstract of approximately 10-15 lines to every paper, key-words and the JEL-Classification.
II. First page
The names of the authors should be marked with an asterisk (*). In the footnote the profession and corresponding address should be given.
The first page should contain only the names and information about the authors, the title of the paper and the abstract. The second page should start with the title without reference to the authors and then commence with the text.
III. Tables and illustrations
Tables and illustrations should be separated from the text as originals to allow a good quality of reproduction. Electronic submission is allowed.
Every table or illustration should have a heading, printed in italics. References in the text should be printed in italics and are not abbreviated [see table 3]
IV. References
References in the body text should be reduced to a minimum.
Citations are made according to the author-year-principle directly in the body text. Footnotes should only contain additional sources and comments, should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the relevant page. They should be kept to a minimum (for example, no more than one per three or four pages) and should be concise (for example, no more than three lines long).
For citations, please cite only the last name [e.g. (Rappaport (1975, 179))]. If there is more than one author separate the names using a slash [e.g. Jensen and Meckling (1976, 156) say...or (Jensen and Meckling (1976))]. If there is more than one reference in a footnote, separate the references with a semicolon [e.g. (Mattessich (1995, 149); Watts/Zimmerman (1986, 139)]. As short form for several authors the abbreviation "et al." might be used. To ensure uniqueness of references in case of the same authors and publications in the same year, use letters to distinguish them (e.g., Bromwich (2004a, 2004b)).
V. List of references
Do not use abbreviations for journals.
The literature should be cited with last name, given name (not abbreviated), year of publication (in brackets), title, and source with place of publication according to the following examples
Book: ...
....title of the publication, place of publication: publishing company [e.g. Watts, Ross L. and Jerold L. Zimmerman (1986), Positive Accounting Theory, New Jersey et al.: Prentice-Hall.]
Journal article: ...
...title of the article, name of journal volume, pages [e.g. Jensen, Michael C. and William H. Meckling (1976), Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure, Journal of Financial Economics 3, 305-60.]
Article in edited volume:
...title of the article, in name(s) of the editor(s), title of the book, place of publication: publishing company, pages [e.g. Grossman, Sanford J. and Oliver D. Hart (1982), Corporate financial structure and managerial incentives, in John J. McCall (ed.), The Economics of Information and Uncertainty, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 123-55.]
Unpublished work:
Theissen, Erik (2001), Price Discovery in Floor and Screen Trading Systems, Working Paper, University of Bonn.
