Publication guidelines of BIIBS Working Papers

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BIIBS Working Papers are a publication of the Berlin Institute for International Business Studies. The goal of the BIIBS Working Papers series is to publish original and innovative scientific contributions in the various areas of International Business studies and related fields.
Authors may be professors, lecturers and (in special cases) students at Berlin School of Economics and Law, as well as external authors that have a special relationship with the school or the institute.

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Publications must comply with all formal academic standards. They should consist of a minimum of 5,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words. They must contain a German and an English abstract of 150 to 250 words as well as a biographic note of around 150 words.
Manuscripts should be sent to one of the editors (cf. below) in electronic form.

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For every manuscript turned in the group of editors will collectively decide on a reviewer; this could be one of the editors or an external expert on the field.
The reviewer will provide a statement (of at least 300 words) on the manuscript and will make a suggestion about the further treatment of the manuscript, whether to publish it as it has been turned in, to publish it with minor changes lying within the responsibility of the author, to publish it on the condition that changes indicated in the review are dealt with, or to refuse publication. Decisions of how to proceed will be made by the group of editors. These usually will be unanimous and will be fed back to authors within four to six weeks – including the reviewer’s statement. Upon the refusal of two editors, the publication of a manuscript will be rejected. Technical and formal editing issues may be dealt with the BIIBS’ student assistant.
In order to increase the visibility of the school’s research, editors may also suggest other outlets for publication.

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The editors also offer a pre-review of manuscripts, screening manuscripts explicitly not handed in for publication. Editors will decide on whether to encourage authors to develop a manuscript for publication and might give some advice in this direction. This feedback will usually be given within four to six weeks and will in no way predetermine a future reviewing process.

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If one of the editors turns in a manuscript for publication, he/she will not take part in the reviewing and decision making processes.

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The editors are:   
Prof. Dr. Andreas Polk, polk@hwr-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Avo Schönbohm, avo.schönbohm@hwr-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Ursula Walther, ursula-walther@hwr-berlin.de
Dr. Michael Wortmann, michael.wortmann@hwr-berlin.de