Editorial

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12397
• Published date: 01 March 2020
• Date: 01 March 2020

Editorial

YOCHANAN ALTMAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

As we are going to press, the Covid-19 pandemic is

devastating Europe and the entire globe. We hope

and wish you fare well in these dire circumstances.

In this the first issue of volume 17, 2020 we offer our

readers a wealth of scholarship on a wide range of topics

researched in numerous geographies in Europe and

elsewhere, written by authors based throughout Europe

and wider afield –twenty-one articles in all.

Daniela Rodrigues Acabado, Ana Sofia Branca,

Margarida Catalao-Lopes and Joaquim Pires Pina

examine the context of corporate social responsibility

initiatives across geographies and industries, addressing

the question as to why some firms dedicate more effort

to community, while others focus on environment or

employees. On the same topic, Magalie Marais,

Emmanuelle Reynaud and Laurent Vilanova introduce

us to the inside story of one of Europe’s‘household

names’, Danone, as concerns the company’sprofessed

CSR intents compared to its actual deeds.

Drawing on cognitive psychology and social identity

theory Achilleas Boukis and George Christodoulides

develop and testa model of antecedents and consequences

of employee-based brand equity (EBBE); and Ebrahim

Soltani and Adrian Wilkinson demonstrate the

relationships between adopting total quality management

(TQM) principles and performance appraisal procedures

in the UK car industry.

Tamer Darwish, Jing Zeng, Mohammad Rezaei Zadeh

and Washika Haak-Saheem explore the mediating role

of transformational and transactional leadership styles of

UAE organisations to learning processes in absorptive

capacity and innovation. Valerie Merindol and David

Versailles, examining business units in Thales, identify

the rules empowering complementarities between local

and global boundary spanners.

Mohamed Elmagrhi,Collins Ntim, Yan Wang, Hussein

Abdou and Alaa Zalata propose a corporate governance

disclosure index in relation to executive pay, suggesting

that better-governed UK firms tend to pay their executives

less; and with better pay-for-performance ratio. In a

somewhat similar vein, Sara Lombardi, Vincenzo

Cavaliere, Luca Giustiniano and Fabrizio Cipollini

examine motivations for knowledge sharing in

Italian firms and suggest that providing extrinsic rewards

for knowledge sharing behaviors may in fact be

counterproductive.

Eleanna Galanaki, Giorgos Papagiannakis and

Andriana Rapti engage with the GLOBE project data to

examine institutional commitment vis-à-vis ideal and

actual collectivism as a key cultural configurati on.J erome

Barthelemy tests the longitudinal relationship between

economic development and uncertainty avoidance on

management consulting expenditure in the US and

Canada and in several European countries. And Torsten

Wulf, Sophie Florian and Philip Meissner introducing a

socio-cognitive approach, argue that cultural differences

in cognitive style may affect interpretation of strategic

issues if framed as threat.

Martin Skold, Ake Freij and Johan Frishammar,

employing a longitudinal case-study approach examine

strategies employed by Swedish firms when confronted

with disruptive regulatory change. Anissa Djabi-Saidani

and Sabrina Perugien examine the conditions under which

diversity management as a field of practice has been

shaped in France. Eileen Murphy, Nuno Guimaraes Da

Costa and Chee Yew Wong explore the best ways to

engage people and organisations in sustainable practices

through implementation of soft keysuccess factors among

UK ISO 14001 certified organisations.

Finally, Dimo Dimov and Joseph Pistrui offer a

reconceptualisation of entrepreneurial action that

integrates the notion that action is embodied, that it is

embedded in a bro ader entreprene urial time span an d

configures in a particularistic context.

Completing this issue are six articles from our

dedicated section –methodology matters, preceded with

an introductoryessay by Bill Lee the sectioneditor, which

also updates andexpands the scope of the standingCall of

Papers for this section.

I am pleased to entrust to you thisfirst issue of the year

and wish you enjoyable and informative reading.

European Management Review, Vol. 17, 3, (2020)

DOI: 10.1111/emre.12397

© 2020 European Academy of Management