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Founded in 1947 as Die Unternehmung: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft und Organisation, the Swiss Journal of Business (SJB) is a peer-reviewed (double-blind), open access business journal. With its concept of combining theoretical standards and practical relevance in high-quality scientific articles, it is one of the leading European journals in the field of business administration.

The scope of the journal covers all disciplines of business administration as well as interdisciplinary topics that broaden the horizon of business research and practice.

The SJB aims to disseminate new findings in business research, to draw attention to important problems in society, research and business practice, to set research agendas, to present scientifically sound solutions and generally to promote the exchange between science and practice.

The SJB is published four times a year:

  • articles that explore a current business problem in practice, place it in a scientific context and set a research agenda for it,
  • Scientific contributions of an original nature that have not been published before. These include theoretical and conceptual contributions as well as the results of empirical studies,
  • Research contributions from working groups and scientific commissions,
  • Interdisciplinary dialog contributions on current topics.

The quality of the articles is ensured by a double-blind peer-review process according to international standards. The reviewers are experts in their respective scientific disciplines. In most cases, they are scientists with a business background. Approximately every second submitted manuscript is accepted for publication. As is customary with scientific journals, there are usually several rounds of review. The time from submission to publication varies widely, but typically takes between ten and 18 months.

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ISSN Online 2944-3741
Published quarterly

Editors

Swiss Journal of Business is the organ of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft (SGB) (Société suisse de gestion d’entreprise (SSE))

Editorial Board

Editorial Office

Manuscripts are always welcome. Tips on how to format your manuscript can be found here.

SGB Membership

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft (SGB)

Founded on the initiative of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl Käfer on February 9, 1952 as Vereinigung Schweizerischer Betriebswirtschafter.

Goals and Purpose of the Association

The Association is committed to the interests of business administration in Switzerland in the areas of teaching and research, as well as to promoting the exchange of ideas and cooperation between science and practice. It provides business practice with the results of business research and promotes the orientation of teaching and research to the needs of business practice. The promotion of young academics is another concern of the association.

Current Activities

The Society publishes the Swiss Journal of Business, which enables it to publish and disseminate the results of research and practice in business administration.
The Swiss Society of Management regularly organizes information, discussion and training events for its members and other interested parties. It is a member of the Swiss Academy of Human Sciences.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is made up of representatives from all Swiss universities:

President

Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg, EHL Hospitality Business School, Lausanne, Schweiz

Vice President

Prof. Dr. Claudia Wöhle, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

Vice President

Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Thommen, European Business School (EBS), Management Kompetenz AG

Board Members

  • Prof. Dr. Frauke von Bieberstein, University of Bern
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Bruhn, University of Basel
  • Prof. Dr. Pascal Gantenbein, University of Basel
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Möller, University of St. Gallen
  • Petra-Marion Niethammer, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
  • Prof. Dr. Dieter Pfaff, University of Zurich
  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Sachs, HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration
  • Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Thommen, European Business School (EBS)
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia B. Wöhle, Paris Lodron University Salzburg

Membership

Individuals who have completed a university degree in business administration or have acquired relevant knowledge through professional practice.

Become a member of the SGB

Special Issues

Open Access Policy

Nomos Verlag and the Swiss Society of Business Administration (SGB) have agreed to convert the long-established Swiss Journal of Business (SJB) to the progressive Open Access format starting with issue 2025. The entire journal will be Open Access under a CC-BY license starting with issue 1/25. The publisher will not charge Article Processing Charges (APC) for the publication of individual articles.

Under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license

  • Sharing – to reproduce and redistribute the material in any format or medium;
  • Editing – remixing, modifying and building upon the material
  • for any purpose, even commercially,

is permitted.

The licenser cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license conditions are met:

  • Attribution – Appropriate copyright and legal information must be provided, a link to the licence must be included, and it must be stated whether any modifications have been made. This information may be provided in any appropriate manner, but not in a way that implies the licensor’s endorsement of you or your particular use.
  • No further restrictions – No additional clauses or technical procedures may be used that legally prohibit others from doing what the licence allows.

Authors of articles in the Swiss Journal of Business are not charged any fees (i.e. no article processing or submission fees).

Find out more about the CC BY 4.0 International licence here: Deed – Namensnennung 4.0 International – Creative Commons. You can find out more about the general Open Access policy of Nomos Verlag here.

Authors publishing in this journal retain full copyright and publication rights.

Directions for Authors

Directions for Authors

Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Call for Papers 4/2025
Innovation Efficiency and Effectiveness
Submission Deadline: 28. Februar 2025

Call for Papers 1/2026
Responsible and Human-centered Artificial Intelligence in Business Ethics – Standards, Processes and Behaviors
Submission Deadline: 1. September 2025

Abstracting & Indexing

Swiss Journal of Business is included in the VHB rating 2024 for publication media (rank C in each of the sub-ratings STEU, INT, MARK, OR, ORG, PERS, RECH, STRAT, TIE, WI and WEW as well rank 3 in the sub-ranking STRAT_prac).

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The OAI-PMH interface is integrated in the Nomos eLibrary. The OAI-PMH protocol is web-based. OAI (Open Archives Initiative) is an initiative that aims to define an open interface for the exchange of metadata. (https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/)

Publications Ethics

Quality Guidelines

The aim of the Swiss Journal of Business is to disseminate new findings in business research, to draw attention to important problems in business practice, to present scientifically sound solutions for practice, and generally to promote the exchange between science and practice.

The publication of original articles includes the following categories:

  • Scholarly contributions of an original nature that have not previously been published in a similar form. This includes theoretical and conceptual contributions as well as the results of empirical studies;
  • Practical articles with a theoretical underpinning, as well as essays on current business issues in practice.

Pure company presentations or descriptions of business problems without a problem-solving component will not be published.

Obligations of authors, publishers and editors

Authors must confirm that they are submitting an original manuscript that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts submitted for publication in the Swiss Journal of Business may not be offered for publication elsewhere until the peer-review process has been completed.

The editors decide on the publication of articles on the basis of the quality and suitability of the article for the journal; the publisher has no influence on this.

Each manuscript submitted by potential authors to the Swiss Journal of Business is evaluated using a double-blind review process. The reviewers are experts in the respective scientific disciplines. In most cases, they are academics with a business background. As the reviews must contain detailed criticism, cases where the rules of good scientific practice have been violated are easily identified.

In the event of a conflict of interest, the Editor-in-Chief will ask one of the Editors to coordinate the review process for a submitted article. He/she also deals with conflicts of interest involving staff, authors, reviewers and editorial board members.

As is typical for scientific journals, there are usually several rounds of peer review. While the first-round reviews are sent back to the authors within three months, the time from submission to publication varies widely, but usually does not exceed 12 months.

In order to promote scientific discourse and cumulative research, as well as to ensure quality, the editors emphasise the importance of creating the greatest possible transparency with regard to the data used in the peer review process.

When submitting the manuscript, the authors of empirical contributions undertake to document sufficiently the way in which the data were collected and/or the data sets provided by third parties (e.g. databases) in order to make the research results replicable and to enable secondary analyses. At the same time, they agree to make the data used available for further scientific analysis as far as possible.

Authors wishing to publish in the Swiss Journal of Business are advised to consult the author information available here before submitting their manuscript.

Authors are not required to pay article processing charges (APCs).

To avoid plagiarism, authors must clearly indicate in their manuscript if content is taken from other sources. Authors must ensure that their contribution does not contain any defamatory information and does not violate any copyrights or other intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties.

The order of authorship should be determined jointly by all co-authors. The list of authors should accurately reflect who wrote the article and conducted the research.

When the manuscript is submitted to the journal, all authors should be aware of this and agree that the senior author will sign a copyright transfer form on their behalf.

In addition, any conflicts of interest related to the publication of a particular article should be disclosed by the authors.

If there is a significant error in their published article, authors should inform the editor(s) and work with the editor(s) to publish an erratum, addendum or retraction, as appropriate.

Verpflichtungen und Rolle des Verlags

Verlagsrichtlinien

Der Nomos Verlag legt besonderen Wert auf die hohe Qualität seines Zeitschriftenportfolios und überwacht die Einhaltung redaktioneller Qualitätsstandards für die in Swiss Journal of Business veröffentlichten Artikel. Unsere allgemeinen ethischen Veröffentlichungsrichtlinien finden Sie hier.

Copyright

Der Nomos Verlag und die Herausgeber übernehmen keine Verantwortung für unaufgefordert eingereichte Manuskripte. Durch die Annahme eines Manuskripts erwirbt der Verlag von den Autor:innen alle Rechte, insbesondere auch das Recht auf weitere Vervielfältigung zu kommerziellen Zwecken durch photomechanische oder andere Techniken. Ausführliche Informationen zur Urheberrechtsrichtlinie von Nomos finden Sie hier.

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Begutachtungsprozess

Die Qualität der in der Zeitschrift Swiss Journal of Business veröffentlichten Aufsätze wird durch ein doppelt-blindes Peer-Review-Verfahren nach international üblichen Standards gesichert. Dieses Verfahren soll die Anonymität sowohl der Autor:innen als auch der Gutachter:innen wahren. Hat ein/e Gutachter:in Kenntnis von der Identität mindestens eines/r der Autor:innen des Manuskripts, ist er oder sie verpflichtet, die Redaktion zu informieren und mögliche konkurrierende oder widersprüchliche Interessen anzugeben.

Da das Peer-Review-Verfahren für die Aufrechterhaltung hoher Publikationsstandards von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, verlassen wir uns auf Gutachter:innen, die Experten aus dem entsprechenden akademischen Zweig sind, meist mit einem betriebswirtschaftlichen Hintergrund. Die Gutachter:innen sind verpflichtet, potenzielle konkurrierende oder widersprüchliche Interessen anzugeben. Der / Die Chefredakteur:in ist dafür verantwortlich, zu beurteilen, ob diese Interessenkonflikte die Qualität der Begutachtung selbst beeinträchtigen können. Die Gutachter:innen sind angewiesen, die Arbeit unvoreingenommen und objektiv zu beurteilen. Wenn die Gutachter:innen während der Begutachtung feststellen, dass sie für die Durchführung der Begutachtung nicht qualifiziert sind (z.B. nicht über die erforderliche Sachkenntnis verfügen) oder potenzielle Interessenkonflikte oder konkurrierende Interessen entdecken, müssen sie die Redaktion der Zeitschrift benachrichtigen. Die Gutachter:innen dürfen keine Informationen aus dem laufenden Begutachtungsprozess verwenden, um sie zu ihrem Vorteil oder zum Vorteil eines Dritten zu nutzen. Dazu gehört auch, dass sie den Autor:innen vorschlagen, auf ihre eigene Arbeit oder die eines/r Kollegen/in zu verweisen, wenn dies nicht notwendig ist. Auch alle anderen ethischen Bedenken sollten der Redaktion zur Kenntnis gebracht werden. Wenn es nicht ausdrücklich erlaubt ist, dürfen die GutachterInnen keine dritte Person zur Durchführung der Begutachtung hinzuziehen.

Wie bei wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften üblich gibt es im Regelfall mehrere Begutachtungsrunden. Da wir bestrebt sind, die erste Runde der Gutachten innerhalb von drei Monaten an die Autor:innen zu schicken, bitten wir unsere Gutachter:innen, das Gutachten vor Ablauf der Frist einzureichen, sofern die zeitliche Einschränkung die Qualität der Begutachtung nicht beeinträchtigt. Da die Gutachten detaillierte Kritikpunkte enthalten müssen, sind Fälle, in denen die Regeln der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis verletzt wurden, leicht erkennbar. Die Zeitschrift schreibt kein bestimmtes Format oder einen bestimmten Stil für das Gutachten vor. Es ist jedoch üblich, vertrauliche Kommentare an die Redaktion mit einer Empfehlung zur Annahme/Überprüfung/Ablehnung des Manuskripts zu richten. Gutachter:innen werden gebeten, Kommentare und Vorschläge zur Qualität und Exaktheit der Studie abzugeben und sollten davon absehen, das Manuskript nach ihren Wünschen umzuschreiben. Ein sorgfältig erstelltes Gutachten hilft den Autor:innen, ihre Arbeit zu verbessern. Daher erwarten wir konstruktive Verbesserungsvorschläge und klar formulierte Kommentare für die Autor:innen und Herausgeber:innen. Gutachter:innen sollten auch davon absehen, den Begutachtungsprozess künstlich zu verlängern, indem sie um unnötige oder irrelevante Informationen bitten. Der Begutachtungsprozess muss stets die höchsten Standards in Bezug auf das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und die wissenschaftliche Integrität einhalten.

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