Editorial

Citation

Pundziene, A. (2009), "Editorial", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 4 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2009.29504aaa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: Baltic Journal of Management, Volume 4, Issue 1

As we start the fourth year of the Baltic Journal of Management, I would like to introduce you to our extended Editorial team. As the journal is growing in readership (the download rates are doubling each year) as well as submissions (more and more researchers are eager to publish with BJM), we felt a need to come closer to our readers and authors in some regions. The Nordic Countries as well as Russia are the first to be represented by new Regional Editors. From Vol. 4 Issue 1, the BJM Editorial team are joined by Professor Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway, and Dr Tatjana Andreeva, St Petersburg State University, Russia.

Rolv Petter Amdam is Professor of Business History at BI Norwegian School of Management. During the last years he has primarily done research and taught within international and cross-cultural management. Today, Professor Amdam is the Associate Dean for BI’s Master of Management Programs. He has been visiting professor at the University of Reading, UK, University of Toulouse, France, ESSEC, Paris, ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His publications appear in international refereed journals such as Academy of Management Executives, Human Resource Development International, European Journal of Industrial Training, Nordic Organizational Studies, and Business History. Rolv Petter Amdam has already contributed to the journal as the Guest Editor of Vol. 2 No. 2 of the Baltic Journal of Management.

Dr Tatjana Andreeva is a Senior Lecturer at the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management Department, Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She received her Master in International Business and PhD in Economics at the same school. Dr Andreeva is currendy involved in teaching including at the joint programme with Lappeenranta School of Business, Finland, as well as in research and management consulting. She has published over 30 articles and actively participates in international management conferences. Dr Andreeva received Best Paper Award from the Workshop on “Organizational Change and Development in Transitional Countries: What can we learn in Theory and Practice” (2006, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management). Her key research interests are knowledge management, change management, and cross-cultural issues in management. In 2006-2008 she received research grants from the Russian Ministry of Education for her research projects. We hope that Tatjana Andreeva will become a contact point for all Russian readers as well as authors.

Our extended editorial team will help us to reinforce the relationship between the Nordic Countries as well as Russia.

Coming back to Vol. 4 No. l, it is comprised of seven papers and covers such topics as perceived quality of business relationships, behaviour patterns in Estonian enterprises, job satisfaction among sales managers, management challenges arising from the use of virtual work, internationalisation of Baltic banks, national identity among minorities and its manifestation in organisations as well as corporate social responsibility. Selected papers cover research on Norway and Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. This issue gives a real sense of management challenges in the Baltic States as well as Norway and Sweden.

Finally, I would like to remind our authors that Manuscript Central, the online submission portal for BJM, is fully functioning. All submissions, revisions, and resubmissions should be operated online (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bjom). We hope that the system will not burden you with extra work; on the contrary you will be able to track your paper and follow it through every stage of review.

We are looking forward to staying in contact with you all, and to creating a new body of knowledge through your research.

Asta Pundziene