Taking stock and moving forward

This is the 100th issue of the IMB Working Papers. It contains three short papers on the series itself. The first paper takes stock of the history, content and relevance of the IMB Working Paper Series. It analyses the first 100 issues of the series in detail (Dörrenbächer in this volume, pp. 4-15). The second paper is addressing the changes at the institution publishing the IMB Working Paper Series. Having been merged with an Institute for Long-Distance Studies, the IMB (Institute of Management Berlin) was re-named to BPS (Berlin Professional School), bringing professionalism to center stage (Tomenendal and Egger de Campo in this volume, pp.16-19). The third paper looks ahead and describes the future ambitions of the working paper series, which will appear as BPS Working Paper Series in the future. Aspects covered are the rationale, scope and way of delivery of the series (Dörrenbächer and Tomenendal in this issue, pp. 20-23).