Business Management

About Business Management

Business Management — Journal Profile

Business Management — in Bulgarian, Бизнес управление (Biznes Upravlenie) — is the management journal of the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics in Svishtov, Bulgaria. Published since 1991 and online since 2012, it is a quarterly, bilingual (Bulgarian and English) journal of management theory and practice that serves as the Academy's platform for research on the Bulgarian and global economy. Its generic English title makes it easy to confuse with unrelated management periodicals around the world, so this profile anchors the journal firmly to its identifiers: print ISSN 0861-6604 and electronic ISSN 2534-8396, published in Svishtov by the Tsenov Academy.

Journal at a glance

The journal and its home institution

The D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics is one of Bulgaria's established economics universities, based in Svishtov on the Danube, and Business Management is one of its flagship periodicals, listed by the Academy among its principal journals alongside its economic archive and yearbook. CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), which carries the journal's content, describes it as a journal specialising in management, published by the Academy in Svishtov, appearing since 1991 with an online version available since 2012. That thirty-plus-year run makes it one of the longer-lived management journals of post-1989 Bulgaria: it began in the first years of the country's transition to a market economy and has documented Bulgarian management practice through transition, European accession in 2007, and the digitalisation of business since.

The journal is a platform on which authors present research articles on current questions in the Bulgarian and global economy. In the journal's own framing, carried in the CEEOL journal description, published materials reflect the state and development of the theory and practice of management, entrepreneurship, and national and international business. The Academy's editorial board for the journal, as listed in the CEEOL journal detail, draws heavily on Bulgaria's economics universities — the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) in Sofia, the University of Economics in Varna, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", and the Tsenov Academy itself — with international members from China and Russia, giving the journal a distinctly Bulgarian and East-European scholarly centre of gravity.

Scope and subject coverage

The journal publishes scientific research from across the economy, organised in named strands. Its core sections are Management Theory and Management Practice, and its wider coverage, as described in its directory and CEEOL descriptions, takes in marketing, international business, information technologies and entrepreneurship, together with review articles, book reviews and reports of good practice. Recent issues visible on the journal's official site illustrate the range in practice: articles on the accounting and taxation treatment of electronic shops, on the state of e-government and digital administrative services in Bulgaria, on the socio-economic potential of voluntary pension insurance in Bulgaria using officially published data for 2002–2024, and on error correction in judicial hierarchies approached through business-organisation analysis. The mix is characteristic — Bulgarian economic and administrative questions examined with management tools, published for an international readership in English alongside the Bulgarian text.

OpenAlex's topic classification of the portion of the journal it indexes points in the same direction: accounting and financial management, accounting theory and financial reporting, insurance and financial risk management, accounting and organisational management, and tourism research all appear among its leading topics. Authors should note that the journal's centre of interest is management in the broad sense — organisation, administration, finance-adjacent management questions and the management of public as well as private institutions — rather than narrow functional specialisms.

Peer review and editorial practice

The journal applies double-blind review to submitted materials: neither authors nor reviewers know the other's identity. It is published quarterly, in both Bulgarian and English, in paper-based and electronic editions. The bilingual model matters for authors deciding where to send work. A Bulgarian-language article reaches the domestic scholarly and practitioner community directly; the English edition carries Bulgarian research to readers abroad, and English-language submissions from international authors appear within the same quarterly rhythm. The journal's site publishes full issue contents with abstracts, and articles carry JEL classification codes, which helps indexers and readers place each paper within economics and management subject schemes.

Metrics and standing

The journal's measurable footprint is that of a regional university journal with steady output. SCImago, working from Scopus data, lists Business Management under its publisher, the Dimitar A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, with an SJR of 0.177 and 24 documents recorded for 2025 in the listing consulted for this profile. OpenAlex holds a partial record for the journal under its Bulgarian title, Бизнес управление, counting 175 works and 115 citations with an h-index of 4 at the time of checking; OpenAlex's coverage of this journal is visibly incomplete relative to the journal's own quarterly archive, so its figures should be read as a lower bound on the journal's output rather than a census. The JournalsWorld directory record previously summarised the journal with an h-index of 5, again from a narrower window. The honest summary is that citation databases capture only part of this journal's life: much of its readership is in Bulgarian-language scholarship and practice, which the large English-language indexes undercount. Authors evaluating the journal should weigh its longevity, its university base, its bilingual reach and its presence in CEEOL alongside the headline metrics.

Indexing and discoverability

The journal is carried by CEEOL, the principal full-text library for Central and East European scholarship, which hosts its journal page, editorial board listing and article content. It is recorded in SCImago's Scopus-based journal rankings. A search of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) API for both of the journal's ISSNs returned no listing at the time of checking, so this profile makes no DOAJ claim for the journal. Indexing arrangements change, and the journal's own site and the Academy's pages are the first place to confirm current status.

Publication charges

No article processing charge for this journal could be verified from an official source consulted for this profile, and the journal does not appear in fee listings that this profile can stand behind. The fee position is therefore recorded here as not publicly disclosed; authors should confirm directly with the editorial office at the Tsenov Academy before submitting if charges are a deciding factor.

How to submit

Submissions are handled by the journal's editorial office at the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, and the journal's official site at bm.uni-svishtov.bg is the starting point for current author instructions, issue contents and contact routes. Manuscripts enter double-blind review, so authors should prepare an anonymised text where the journal's instructions ask for one. Because the journal publishes in Bulgarian and English, authors should state the language of the submission clearly and follow the journal's current formatting guidance for abstracts and JEL codes. As with any long-running university journal whose website carries the operative instructions, checking the live site immediately before submission is essential: article templates, reference style and submission addresses are the details most likely to have been updated since any directory profile was written.

Who should publish here

Business Management suits researchers working on management questions with a Bulgarian, Balkan or wider East-European dimension: post-transition enterprise management, public administration and e-government in Bulgaria, Bulgarian financial and insurance markets, tourism management, and the accounting and reporting practice of Bulgarian firms. It also suits Bulgarian scholars who want their work to appear in both Bulgarian and English under a double-blind reviewed masthead with a thirty-year history, and international authors studying the region who want a venue read by the region's own management community. Authors whose work is aimed primarily at the large Anglo-American management journals' audience should note the difference in mission: this is a regional university journal whose value lies in its community and its bilingual record, not in competing on the citation metrics of the global top tier.

Disambiguation: other "Business Management" titles

The plain title is shared, in whole or in part, by many unrelated periodicals and by at least one well-known practitioner magazine tradition. The journal profiled here is defined by the pairing of its two ISSNs — 0861-6604 for print and 2534-8396 for the electronic edition — with the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics as publisher and Svishtov as its home city. Any listing that pairs the title with a different publisher or different ISSNs is a different publication, and citations intended for the Svishtov journal should carry its ISSNs to be unambiguous.

Similar journals

Within Bulgaria and the region, authors in this space also consider the Tsenov Academy's other periodicals, UNWE's journals in Sofia, and regional management titles carried by CEEOL such as the Annals of the University of Oradea's economic science series. Internationally, the journal's closest comparators are other university-based, bilingual management quarterlies in Central and Eastern Europe that combine a domestic-language edition with an English one.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Business Management published? In Svishtov, Bulgaria, by the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics. Its official site is bm.uni-svishtov.bg.

What are the journal's ISSNs? Print ISSN 0861-6604 and electronic ISSN 2534-8396.

How often does it appear? Quarterly — four issues per year, in Bulgarian and English, in print and electronic editions. It has been published since 1991, and its online version has been available since 2012.

Is the journal peer reviewed? Yes. The journal applies double-blind review to submitted materials, as stated in its CEEOL journal description.

What subjects does it cover? Management theory and management practice at its core, with marketing, international business, information technologies, entrepreneurship and related areas of economics, plus review articles and book reviews.

Is it the same as other journals called Business Management? No. Several unrelated periodicals share similar names. This one is the Tsenov Academy's journal, identified by ISSNs 0861-6604 and 2534-8396.

Editorial board

The board listed for the journal in its CEEOL journal detail is drawn from across Bulgarian economics academia, with international members beyond it. It includes, among others, Jordanka Jovkova of UNWE Sofia (finance, financial management, financing and investment in property), Statty Stattev of UNWE Sofia (macroeconomic analysis), Krum Aleksandrov (trade and the economics of enterprises), Georgy Zabunov (marketing and property markets), Plamen Iliev of the University of Economics – Varna (real estate management), Zhelyu Vladimirov of Sofia University (business administration, entrepreneurship, innovation), Mariyana Bozhinova of the Tsenov Academy (management of trade activity, tourism, energy efficiency), and members from China (Shi Yizhe, urban and risk management) and Russia (Sergey Maksimov, urban economy and real estate; Galina Litvintseva, public and regional economy). The composition is informative about the journal's working scope: property and real-estate management, finance, tourism, trade and public-sector management all sit inside its remit alongside general management theory, and the presence of property specialists on the board matches the frequency of real-estate and valuation topics in the journal's pages.

The journal in Bulgarian scholarly life

To understand what this journal is for, it helps to place it in its setting. Bulgarian economics academia publishes through a constellation of university journals — academy and university titles in Svishtov, Sofia, Varna and Plovdiv — that together carry much of the country's management and economics research, especially work addressed to Bulgarian institutions, Bulgarian data and Bulgarian policy. Business Management has held its place in that constellation since 1991. Its quarterly rhythm, its bilingual editions and its double-blind review make it a full scholarly journal rather than an institutional bulletin, while its subject mix — management of trade, tourism, real estate, public administration and finance-adjacent questions — reflects the research profile of its home academy and its board.

The articles visible in recent issues show how that works in practice. The e-government study in the journal's pages tracks digital administrative services across Europe and Bulgaria over nearly two decades, a topic where the journal's Bulgarian readership is not a limitation but the point: the people who administer Bulgarian digital government read Bulgarian journals. The pension-insurance study works from officially published Bulgarian data series for 2002–2024 to ask why voluntary pension provision has not attracted the expected public interest — again, a question whose natural audience is domestic, published in English as well so that comparative researchers can find it. The e-commerce accounting study systematises the documentation and taxation requirements facing Bulgarian online shops. This is management research written from inside the economy it studies, and it is the kind of content that international indexes capture only partially.

Language and editions

The journal appears in Bulgarian and English, in paper and electronic editions. Authors should be clear about which edition and language a citation refers to: the journal's own site presents issue contents with English titles and abstracts, which is the practical route by which its Bulgarian-language content becomes discoverable internationally. The electronic edition, available since 2012 through the journal's site at the Academy's domain, is the version of record for most current readers, and it is the electronic ISSN, 2534-8396, that identifies the journal in online catalogues.

A note on this directory record

The earlier JournalsWorld entry for this journal reduced it to a short template summary whose figures — a single h-index and a quartile label without a named source — did not distinguish this Svishtov journal from the many unrelated periodicals that share its plain English title. This profile replaces that summary with source-attributed facts: the Academy and CEEOL for the journal's history, frequency, languages and review model; its own site for its current contents; SCImago for its SJR; and OpenAlex, with its partial-coverage caveat stated openly, for its indexed citation counts. The journal's identity throughout is the identifier pairing of ISSN 0861-6604 (print) and ISSN 2534-8396 (electronic) with the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics as publisher.

Practical notes for authors

Authors preparing a submission should work from the journal's live site rather than from any directory summary, this one included: the operative details — manuscript formatting, the structure expected of abstracts, reference style, and the editorial office's current contact route — are maintained there by the Academy. Two features of the journal deserve planning around. The first is its quarterly rhythm combined with double-blind review: authors should expect a considered process rather than a rapid one, and should prepare the anonymised version of the manuscript that blind review requires. The second is the bilingual model. A Bulgarian author writing for the domestic community and an international author writing in English are both within the journal's design, but each should state the intended language and edition clearly and follow the journal's guidance on abstracts and JEL classification, which is how the two readerships find one another's work. Book reviews and reports of good practice are also part of the journal's content, and early-career researchers in the region often make their first appearance in its pages through those shorter forms before contributing full research articles.

Finally, a word on fit. The journal's centre of gravity is management as practised and studied in Bulgaria and its region: enterprise management, trade and tourism management, property and real-estate management, public administration, and the finance-adjacent questions its board is staffed to judge. A manuscript that engages Bulgarian or regional data, institutions or policy will find referees equipped for it here; a manuscript with no connection to the region's questions may be competently handled but will be speaking past the journal's core readership, and its author should be able to say why this journal, of all management journals, is the right home for the work.

For readers tracing Bulgarian management research from outside the country, the journal's CEEOL presence is the most reliable discovery route, since CEEOL aggregates its contents for the international library market, while the journal's own site remains the authoritative source for its current issues, board and instructions.