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Current Issue
Volume 39,
Issue 3,
21 April 2026

About The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line is a multidisciplinary international leading journal publishing cutting-edge research that explores relevant conceptual and practical management and organizational issues aimed at serving society, with a focus on information, knowledge, innovation, sustainability, technology and value creation approached through diverse business perspectives.

Submission information

Accepted manuscript types and word counts

  • Article — up to 8500 words
  • Editorial — up to 3000 words

Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.

Reference style

Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.

Keywords

Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper.

Peer review type

Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.

Open access options

This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.

Accepted languages

This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.

Accepted submission files

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

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Calls for papers

Closes: 20th December 2026

This special issue aims to contribute to both academic discourse and practical application by highlighting challenges and solutions for a more intensive discussion and consideration of the topic of business transfers in various sectors of society. By illuminating current dilemmas surrounding the topic, this issue enables alternative strategies and paths for various societal actors to give the topic the attention it deserves.

Guest editor(s): Susanne Durst, Anmari Viljamaa, Lex van Teeffelen