New volume new challenges

Baltic Journal of Management

ISSN: 1746-5265

Article publication date: 11 January 2008

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Citation

Pundziene, A. (2008), "New volume new challenges", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 3 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2008.29503aaa.001

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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New volume new challenges

Editorial

New volume new challenges

Opening the new volume of the Baltic Journal of Management, we present seven outstanding articles that fall under the broad topic of Management research. The articles present research results in the area of project management, human resource management, finances, e-commerce and marketing. This issue, as never before, grasps and embraces the authorship from the whole world – from China to USA and Canada, Norway, Estonia and Lithuania. The mission of the Baltic Journal of Management is to bridge management research from East to West, and the geographical coverage of the authorship and comparative nature of the articles makes the bridge a reality.

Baltic Journal of Management presents two types of research articles – comparative as well as research of national cases. Both are very important and valuable in order to contribute to the development of worldwide management research knowledge. Jan Terje Karlsen, Ketil Græe and Mona Jensvold Massaoud with the paper “Building trust in project–stakeholder relationships” seek to reveal how trust can be built in a relationship between a project and its stakeholders. The paper is based on a qualitative case study with in-depth interviews following a semi-structured approach. It analyses a large-scale Norwegian public construction project of the New Opera House that received a vast attention of media and Norwegian society.

Vida Scarpello and Shawn M. Carraher with the article “Are pay satisfaction and pay fairness the same construct? A cross-country examination among the self-employed in Latvia, Germany, the UK, and the USA” test “the extent to which pay satisfaction is equivalent to perceptions of pay fairness in order to call to attention the need for care in designing instruments in order to lessen the likelihood of the confounding of concepts within measures as has been in numerous previous studies”.

Kulno Türk in the article “Performance appraisal and the compensation of academic staff in the University of Tartu” shows the role of performance appraisal in motivating and compensating academic staff of Tartu University.

Raul Seppa's article “Capital structure decisions: research in Estonian non-financial companies” investigates the relations between company-specific financial factors and the capital structure decisions of Estonian non-financial companies. He also examines the behavioral differences between the companies of different size.

Petras Baršauskas, Tadas Šarapovas and Aurelijus Cvilikas in the article “The evaluation of e-commerce impact on business efficiency” aim to determine and assess the cost positions that mostly impact the company total cost efficiency in supply chain management under theoretical and empirical background.

Lanying Du, Jundong Hou and Yupeng Huang's article “Mechanisms of power and action for cause-related marketing: perspectives of enterprise and non-profit organization” aims to examine cause-related marketing (CRM) and provides a general framework to explore the mechanisms of power and action for the CRM.

Brent McKenzie's article “University business students perceptions of retail shopping behaviour: a Canadian and Estonian comparative study” reveals empirical findings of the two quantitative studies of Estonian and Canadian university students' interpretation and perceptions of retail shopping behaviour.

Also this issue contains two announcements that should be interesting for the researchers assessing leadership topics (6th Conference of the Baltic Management Development Association that will take place in May 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania) as well as for the doctoral students surviving through the dissertation development process (EDEN seminar for Doctoral students organised by ISM University of Management and Economics and EIASM that will take place in June 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania).

Looking to the future BJM is in the process of developing three new special issues in the area of the service sector in the Baltic region (service design for the Baltic Region, managing service operations and supply chains, foreign direct investment, service operations strategy – domestic versus international perspectives, Business-to-business services, etc.), organisational culture, and last but not least – developmental challenges for the Business Schools in the Baltic region. We would be happy to receive your papers as comparative studies or research of national cases, on the identified topics.

Asta Pundziene

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