EMR at 15: Reflecting Back on a Journal's Journey

Reaffirming opportunities for pluralism in management scholarship

“…Since its inception, European Management Review has sought to represent a breadth of scholarship and a diversity of perspectives and approaches. Andersen et al (2018) in their bibliometric of the manuscripts published in the journal in the first 15 years of its existence identified four main clusters of scholarship covering innovation, strategic management, corporate governance, and human resource management. The innovation cluster, which was the largest in their analysis, focused on how organizations manage the process of developing and embedding new knowledge.…”

Testing the Homogeneity Hypothesis of Personality: Replication and Extension across European Countries, Industry Sectors and Organizations

“…Previous analyses were performed mostly in US settings, using US samples. Research results and conclusions from these samples might not automatically be used to describe European organizations (Boxall and Macky, 2009; Guest and Zijlstra, 2012; Andersen et al, 2018). Europe's different cultural and historical background is reflected in national and economic differences, managerial styles and practices varying across countries (cf.…”

“…Barthélemy, 2019). In particular, we explore the extent to which the ASA model applies in Europe, contributing to the field of global management (Andersen et al, 2018).…”

Editorial

“…EMR, as a general management journal naturally concerns itself with performance issues. It was thus no great surprise that our bibliometric analysis of the journal's contents over the past 15 years revealed performance management as its overall key theme, present in more than 20% of all its articles and in all streams of scholarship (Andersen et al ., ). Through the prism of the ten papers presented here, Vinh Sum Chau, Associate Editor of EMR , provides a snapshot of the state‐of‐the‐arts of performance management, and offers us a glimpse into the future too.…”

“…Which brings us to the second thematic focus for this issue: ‘innovation’. Innovation, one of the core thematic clusters of our journal (Andersen et al ., ) bridges our preoccupation with performance on the one hand, and the age‐old human quest for the new and the unknown, on the other. The special issue, edited by Maria Elmquist, Annabelle Gawer and Pascal Le Masson, holding six papers, takes an overarching view of innovation, demonstrating how it shapes knowledge creation and knowledge management in general, and how it informs the very foundations of management as a discipline and practice, in particular.…”