EDITORIAL

• Author: Yochanan Altman
• Published date: 01 September 2018
• Date: 01 September 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12331

EDITORIAL

YOCHANAN ALTMAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Issue 3 of volume 15, 2018 of European Management

Review holds ten papers in all. Six of them pertain to the

Special Issue on advancing the understanding of inflows

and outflows of international labour in management

resea rch guest edited by Akram Al Ariss, Liisa Mäkelä

and Helen De Cieri. EMR takes great pride of being

in the forefront of general management journals in

developing our understanding on the complex

relationships among the diverse forms of international

mobility –expatriation on its various variants, forced,

economic andlife style migration; refugeesat one extreme

end of this continuum and international businesstravelers

at the other end. Indeed, the implicit question rises

whether that complexity may be viewed as a continuum

at all.

Next we have the second contribution to our dedicated

standing section ‘Methodology Matters’. Schumacher

presents a novel approach to practitioner and academic

collaboration, introducing in his PPRIG model a third

party into this r elationship.

Our other dedicated standing section ‘Xenophobia

Monitor’launched recently, continues to accept

submissions on the background of an increasingly

unsettled Europe. In recent months we saw the forming

of an anti-immigration government in Italy,intensification

of anti-Roma sentiment in the Czech Republic and

significant gainsfor the Far Right in the general elections

in Sweden. In the UK the Extreme Left consolidated its

hold on the Labour party - Her Majesty’s opposition;

amidst a storm over the antisemitic conduct of its leader

and his followers, some of them are subject to a criminal

investigation. Nor is the rise in the phenomenon confined

to Europe. The mid-term elections in the US and the

presidential race in Brazil, were both plagued by hate

speech and xenophobic conduct.

The issue concludes with three papers which data

originates from the UK, Jordan, France, the USA as well

as an analysis of a global industry. Eiadat and Fenández

Castro advance the debate about the relationship between

regulatory coercion and firm environmental responsiveness.

Mechi, Metais and Shimizu examine acquisitions of

French firms in the US and the impact of pre-acquisition

exposure on the success of the venture. Giachetti and

Torrisi consider product line strategies in the global mobile

phone market with varying environmental uncertainty.

I wish you an enjoyable reading.

European Management Review, Vol. 15, 287, (2018)

DOI: 10.1111/emre.12331

©2018 European Academy of Management