The VHB is pleased to announce the first issue of the second volume of BuR - Business Research, a new peer reviewed open access journal on business research.

This issue offers for the first time supplementary material to articles. It consists of Excel files providing data the research is based on, calculation sheets, and optimization tools. Moreover, text files with pseudo code of algorithms and data of instances used for testing these algorithms as well as a video file with a demonstration of the use of a system in experiments are supplied for download. This material facilitates the understanding of the published articles and the replication of their findings to the benefit of scientific progress. And last but not least, such well documented articles will achieve much more impact.

You are invited to download all articles for free. We appreciate any comments.

Submission of papers for publications consideration are welcome at all times.

We guarantee a fast-track review process whereby each author who submits an article will receive a decision letter within 10 weeks; after two rounds of review the articles will be either accepted or rejected.