Dear readers of \(Management Review Quarterly\) (formerly JfB),

With this issue we are now looking back on two full years of our editorship and would like to take this opportunity to report about progress made, to thank those who helped and continue to help maintaining and raising the quality of the journal and to outline the future pathways of the journal.

In 2013, we received a record percentage of English language submissions and published four successful issues, with acceptance and rejection rates staying on a competitive level: 74 % of all submissions have been invited for at least one revision and we finally accepted 16 % of all papers submitted. Submission numbers increased significantly by 20 % compared to 2012 and we would like to thank our authors for their trust in our journal and for giving us the opportunity to publish their research after double-blind external reviews. Further and probably even more important, we would like to thank our reviewers for their time and commitment to secure the high academic standards of our journal. In 2013, more than one hundred national and international reviewers contributed to the success of our journal and we are very thankful for the high-quality reports we received! We know how much work it is to provide a high-quality in-depth review within time and that is why we appreciate your commitment even more!

Over the last year we started our “soft transition” to the new journal title ‘Management Review Quarterly’ by introducing the new title as a subtitle for the ‘Journal für Betriebswirtschaft’. From the issue 1/2014 onwards we are continuing this process, but now change our official title into Management Review Quarterly/Journal für Betriebswirtschaft. This change emphasizes our intention to further internationalize the journal and to further increase the percentage of English-language papers. This does, however, not imply that we no longer accept German-language papers. We believe that for some disciplines, for example areas in management accounting, business law or taxation, English-language papers may not be the right format as the rules and legal environments in those areas are rather local. Thus, we also welcome future German-language submissions from such disciplines. To increase the international outreach of all submissions, we are now supporting authors of German-language papers after the first round of revisions to develop well-written English-language submissions. Specifically, we provide copy-editing services to authors of such papers in order to encourage translation of high quality contributions in English language. We are convinced that this process of further internationalizing the journal is to the benefit of all readers and authors.

We wish you a great start and a successful year 2014 and hope that you keep on supporting our journal as a reader, author and/or reviewer.

Engelbert J. Dockner                         Jonas Puck Thomas Reutterer