European Journal of International Management
Special Issue on Global Performance Management in the European Context
Guest Editors:
Dennis Briscoe and Lisbeth Claus
Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2007
The European Journal of International Management (EJIM) invites authors to submit papers for the Special Issue on Global Performance Management in the European Context. This Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2008.
Background:
One of the recognized problems of the topic of global performance management is largely definitional. Some of the work on performance management is focused on the individual and centered on performance appraisal at the employee level. In other work, more in line with strategic HRM, the focus of performance management is much broader and the level of analysis is organizational (corporate, subsidiary, business unit, team) rather than individual.
Many of the large Western MNCs are likely to use a home-grown, HQ-based approach to performance management in a standardized manner across their worldwide subsidiaries. There is concern with the implementation of a management process developed and tested in the West and applied to a different context (i.e., different national cultures, laws, and markets). When the Western concept of performance management is viewed in an international perspective an added layer of complexity emergeslargely due to the varying cultural and structural contexts in which global HR is implemented. There is relatively limited research-based knowledge on PM from a global or internationalas compared to Western domesticperspective.
Because the purpose of EJIM is to promote European perspectives on international management, all the papers for this Special Issue should have implications for either European-based MNCs or MNCs dealing with or operating in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Impact of culture on performance management
- Standardization-adaptation dilemma in PM systems of MNCs
- Issues related to the design of PM systems in MNCs
- Issues related to the implementation and realignment of PM systems in MNCs
- Issues related to the evaluation and effectiveness of PM systems in MNCs
- Global performance management issues at the individual, team, subsidiary, or organizational level
- Performance management of international assignees (short-term and long-term expatriation)
- European case studies
EJIM
EJIM is the first international journal devoted entirely to fostering an understanding of issues in international management theory and practice in the newly expanded European arena including the underrepresented regions of Northern, Central and <st1:place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</st1:place> and to providing both conceptual and functional implications useful for the further development of research, teaching practices, and managerial techniques.
EJIM also solicits literature that allows for a broader interpretation of research it welcomes not only papers which adhere to the most common research standards (i.e., largely based on hypothesis testing using quantitative methods), but also those that introduce a more European perspective through qualitative and interdisciplinary contributions.
EJIMs publications are aimed not only at the academic community preoccupied with purely conceptual research, but also at other academics actively involved in transferring theoretical wisdom into actionable knowledge.
Paper submission
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page at http://www.inderscience.com/papers .