Editorial

• Date: 01 December 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12384
• Published date: 01 December 2019

Editorial

Dear EMR reader,

As a truly global general management journal we are

pleased to open this colle ction of 21 papers with a distinct

Special Issue on a highlytopical matter of global concern:

the state of humanand social rights and of diversity policy

and practice at times of austerity and economic

contraction. The six papers that follow the introductory

piece by Special Issue guest editors Joana Vassilopoulou,

Olivia Kyriakidou, Jose Pascal da Rocha, Andri

Georgiadou and Michalle Mor Barak, provide a state-of-

the-art take on these critical issues during and in the

aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis that gripped the

world.

We follow suit with five papers on related concerns:

two papers on diversity matters and three on corporate

social responsibility. The rest of the papers in this issue

cover a variety of topics from entrepreneurial self-image

and firms’trust recovery options, to SMEs foreign

business development strategies, firms’deviation from

optimal financial leverage impact on mergers and

acquisitions, organisational ambidexterity in the financial

services and consumer innovation in the music industry;

with the geographicalfoci throughout Europe (of course),

North America, the Middle East and China.

Last but not least it gives me greatpleasure to highlight

the role of reviewers of papers submitted to the EMR –

new submissions as well as revised manuscripts, over

the past year (2018), whose names are listed at the end

of this issue. Their skill, dedication and collegial

responsibility ensure the viability and success of this

journal. I thank you all wholeheartedly.

Yochanan Altman

Editor-in-Chief

European Management Review, Vol. 16, 835, (2019)

DOI: 10.1111/emre.12384

©2019 European Academy of Management