The latest issue of Budapest Management Review, September 2025

It is a general management journal, which includes studies on different aspects of organizations: structure, processes, and performance, and equally on cultural, behavioural, and technological subjects. Multidisciplinary research is highly valued and papers that draw on the perspective and theoretical background of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, or communicational studies – apart from that of business, management and organization science are also appreciated.
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Call for papers for 2026 thematic issue:
For the thematic issue entitled ‘Stakeholder Roles in Product and Service Management’ we primarily welcome empirical research papers that contribute to the academic discourse on stakeholder management by scientifically exploring industrial and business practices. The call for papers can be found on the Budapest Management Review website and the deadline for manuscript submission is 28 November 2025.
Contents of the latest July-August issue (Volume LVI, Issue 9):
– Máté Repisky – Erzsébet Hetesi
Analysing embeddedness dimensions in the context of entrepreneurial failures
The central research question is how the authors can describe the context of entrepreneurial failures using the framework of social embeddedness.
– Éva Révész – Boglárka Dőry – Emőke Both
The study concentrates on the Social Return on Investment, a widely recognized impact measurement tool, and aims to explore how and for what purposes an NGO might use the SROI calculation.
– Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán – Bianka Barabás – Csaba Hegedűs – Attila Imre Katona
This paper proposes a new business process control chart (on a real-life business) and provides a control chart fitting procedure.
– Letícia Pekk – Zoltán Kovács – András Háry
Relations of features of companies and their R&D activities
This article examines the relationship between company characteristics (such as size, ownership structure, and location) and features of their research and development activities, including defined objectives and applied methods.
– József György Szabó
The role of digital trust in digital maturity models
Through a qualitative analysis of 25 models, the research identifies key components – such as data security, technological reliability, organizational transparency, and employee competencies – contributing to building digital trust.