Editorial

Published date01 June 2019
Date01 June 2019
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12358
Editorial
YOCHANAN ALTMAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Issue 2 of this year is the longest yet in European
Management Reviews history, holding 16 empirical
papers and two introductory papers altogether, spanning
from the present and into the future. The issue
concentrates on two themes. First, we offer ten papers
with wide-ranging contents, which core theme and
common thread is performance management.
Performance lies at the heart of contemporary
management and organization thought and practice;
performance drives business strategy, underlines strategic
human resource management, informs marketing
campaigns and is central to decision making at all leve ls
of the firm. Perhaps too close for comfort, performance
is also shaping academe, its core values and modus
operandi (Chatelain-Ponroy et al., 2018). EMR, as a
general managementjournal naturally concerns itselfwith
performance issues. It was thus no great surprise that our
bibliometric analysis of the journals 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., 2018). 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., 2018) 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.
May I wish you an informative and enjoyable reading.
Yochanan Altman
References
Andersen,N., A. Haslberger and Y. Altman,20 18, EMRat 15:
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Chatelain-Ponroy, S., S. Mignot-Gérard, C. Musselin and S.
Sponem, 2018, Is commitment to performance-based
management compatible with commitment to university
publicness?Academicsvalues in French universities.
Organization Studies,39:13571376.
European Management Review, Vol. 16, 223, (2019)
DOI: 10.1111/emre.12358
©2019 European Academy of Management

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