Collections and calls for papers

Special Issue: Advanced data analysis techniques with marketing applications

The five articles in this special issue give an impression on the variety of theoretical issues in quantitative marketing research as well as on the broad spectrum of applications in marketing practice. Furt...

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Special Issue: Agent-Based Modelling in Social Sciences

The special issue on agent-based modelling (ABM) in the Journal of Business Economics is intended to foster the dialogue between the source disciplines of ABM and business economics and management science fo...

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Special Issue: Business Economics in a Pandemic World

Aim of the Special Issue: Similarly to the financial crises of 2008/09, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/21 reveals once again the fragility of the global economic system. But in contrast to previous general ec...

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Special Issue: Business Intelligence and Analytics: From Big Data to Value Creation

Digital data has not only become an inherent part of our everyday life, but also has a significant effect on almost all areas of value creation. Companies are facing the great challenge of how to specificall...

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Special Issue: Business Model Innovation and Transformation

As the term “Business Model” fundamentally brings together different perspectives from wide-ranging disciplines and is not limited to a single research construct, researchers currently progress towards disco...

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Special Issue: Contributions to Management Science - Symposium on occasion of the 85th volume of the JBE/ZfB

At the end of the year 2015 the 85th volume of the Journal of Business Economics (JBE)/Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (ZfB) has been completed. On this occasion the current issue is published. It contain...

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Special Issue: Decision Making in Economics

Theoretical approaches on decision making in business administration exist since many decades and strive to lead to optimal decisions in companies and between individuals. In this Special Issue, decisions ar...

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Special Issue: Decision Research – Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Behavior

25 years after Kahneman and Tversky published their influential paper on Prospect Theory, there is not only one gap between theory and behavior, but in our view, there are several gaps that current research ...

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Special Issue: Economics in the 21st Century

With this special issue the co-Editor-in-Chief together with the other Department Editors wants to celebrate Günter Fandel’s 80th birthday and his 22 years as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Econo...

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Special Issue: Experimental (Business) Ethics

There is no shortage of ethical issues in business. Two years after its beginning, the Volkswagen “Dieselgate” scandal is still in the news, prompting questions not only about legal liability, but also on bu...

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Special Issue: Experimental Research in Management Accounting

Experimental research in management accounting has spread in the last decades for at least three reasons. First, regarding content, it allows to investigate in how far the behavior of individuals and groups ...

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Special Issue: Finance and Accounting in the Age of Digitalization

Aim of the Special Issue: We are actively soliciting contributions investigating new trends in finance and accounting research and practice spurred by digitalization. The process of digitalization offers new...

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Special Issue: Frameworks for sustainability management: Analysing their contribution

Compared to other disciplines of business studies, sustainability management is still a relatively young research field. Nevertheless, for the past three decades, multiple frameworks have been proposed, offe...

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Special Issue: Frontiers in Finance - Impressions from the 30th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association

We invite submissions for a special issue dedicated to papers presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association in Aachen. This special issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of ...

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Upcoming

Open for submission

07 October 2024 - 31 December 2024

Special Issue: German Business Economics

Aim and Scope of the Special Issue: In recent decades, research in business economics in Germany has increasingly become internationalized. However, unlike in natural sciences, knowledge in business economic...

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Special Issue: Interdisciplinarity in operations management

Global production networks, the rapid development of technology, market dynamics, fierce competition and the increasing relevance of sustainability put severe pressure on current practices in operations mana...

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Special Issue: International Financial Management and Valuation

Certainly, international financial management and valuation is a special discipline in the broader field of finance. According to our analysis of the annual meetings of the European Finance Association, such...

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Closed

Special Issue: Looking across Product Categories in Marketing Science

In our call-for papers we addressed several research gaps in the literature on multi-category purchase behavior which are relevant for this special issue. Of course, we did not expect submitted papers to com...

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Special Issue: Looking across Product Categories in Marketing Science

In our call-for papers we addressed several research gaps in the literature on multi-category purchase behavior which are relevant for this special issue. Of course, we did not expect submitted papers to com...

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Closed

Special Issue: Management Accounting and Control

The ten articles comprised in this special issue demonstrate impressively the broad spectrum of topics and methods in the field of management accounting and control, to which Hans-Ulrich Küpper has contribut...

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Special Issue: Non-standard Issues in Business Financing

Aim of the Special Issue: The Journal of Business Economics has a long-lived tradition of publishing scholarly finance articles in its regular issues. These are occasionally supplemented by special issues on...

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Special Issue: Recent Developments in Financial Research: Digital Finance and Financial Literacy

The financial industry has changed tremendously over the last decades. And so has the usage of financial products and services. A large part of this development has been technology-driven, giving rise to the...

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Special Issue: Replication studies in finance and accounting

(On the time- and region-related robustness of business research findings) Aim of this Special Issue: Business economics as an applied science is strongly rooted in empirical research. Unlike in natural scie...

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Special Issue: Risk Governance

Risk governance fills the gap between the institutionally oriented field of corporate governance and the methodologically oriented area of risk management. As such, it covers a broad range of topics, includi...

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Special Issue: Sustainability Reporting and Risk Governance

The papers of this Special Issue address the different aspects of sustainability reporting, management and risk governance settings. Although, the results provide several theoretical and practical implicatio...

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Special Issue: Sustainable Decision-Making in Production and Logistics

Corporate decision-makers are focusing more and more on sustainably produced and transported goods to improve the company’s ecological footprint as well as protecting natural resources and, consequently, mit...

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Special Issue: Sustainable Operations

Sustainability is one of the mega topics of this century. Whether climate change or resource efficiency—sustainability is driving the transformation of entire industries and has found its way into all scient...

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Special issue: Sustainable Operations in Production and Logistics

The six articles of this special issue deliver in-depth insights into a broad variety of topics within Sustainable Operations in Production and Logistics. Besides the knowledge expansion obtained by these pa...

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Special Issue: The Ethics of Digitalization and Emerging Corporate Responsibilities in the Digital Age

Digital technologies are transforming the way we are doing business. Whether bank loans should be granted to applicants, jobseekers be invited to interviews, employees be promoted, or customers be paid speci...

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Open

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Ongoing

Special Issue: Value-creation and Innovation in the Digital Age

The advent of digital technologies (such as social media, cloud computing, the internet of things or blockchain) has significantly changed the modern value creation and innovation landscape. Digital innovati...

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Closed

Special Issue: Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing

For entrepreneurs, start-ups and fast growing ventures, the provision of sufficient funds to foster growth is one of the most important if not the key factor of success. While venture capital (VC) is one of ...

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Special Issue: Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing

For entrepreneurs, start-ups and fast growing ventures, the provision of sufficient funds to foster growth is one of the most important if not the key factor of success. While venture capital (VC) is one of ...

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Closed