Dear readers of Management Review Quarterly,
As you have witnessed since 2014, our journal has been undergoing key strategic transitions, be it the shift from featuring predominantly German language articles to English; renaming the journal; introducing a better editorial management system, and gradually increasing the number of articles published. As part of these ongoing efforts, from January 1st, 2018, we have been given the editorial responsibilities of the journal by the previous board, and the ownership of the journal has been given to Springer. We are happy to introduce ourself with our first regular issue this year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the past editorial team, Prof. Anne D’Arcy, Prof. Jonas Puck, Prof. Thomas Reutterer and Prof. Engelbert Dockner†, for their hard work and initiatives which began to turn Management Review Quarterly (MRQ) into an international journal with a clear niche focus. The path to becoming a top journal is hard, but we believe that the journal is on a very good way to become a highly important pillar contributing to an evidence-based management and business discipline. [...]