Editorial

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Pundziene, A. (2011), "Editorial", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 6 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2011.29506aaa.002

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: Baltic Journal of Management, Volume 6, Issue 1

The sixth year of the Baltic Journal of Management (BJM) starts with a regular issue containing seven papers from Germany, USA, Lithuania, Norway and Luxembourg. The papers cover four main areas – human research management and development, marketing, higher education strategy and globalisation, legitimacy and transition economies. The issue is opened by three German authors, Thomas Steger, Rainhard Lang and Friederike Groeger, with the paper “Expatriates and the institutionalisation of the HRM practices”. The purpose of the paper is to describe the process of institutionalisation of human resource management practices in German multinational companies’ subsidiaries in Russia. The qualitative empirical study reveals the four types of institutionalisation processes of human resource management practices. According to the study, expatriates play a key role in the institutionalisation processes with their value orientation and behaviour patterns. The second paper in the field of the human resource management is presented by Shawn Carraher: “Turnover prediction using attitudes towards benefits, pay, and pay satisfaction among employees and entrepreneurs in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania”. The purpose of the paper is to examine the efficacy of predicting turnover for employees and entrepreneurs from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania based on measuring attitudes towards benefits, pay satisfaction, pay, gender and age. The results show that attitudes towards these factors were significant predictors of turnover for employees and entrepreneurs, although the impact of the turnover differs between employees and entrepreneurs. The third paper by Ieva Martinkenaite, “Antecedents and consequences of inter-organisational knowledge transfer: emerging themes and openings for further research”, echoes the issues raised in the first paper. In the paper, the author builds an integrative framework of knowledge transfer where different types of antecedents, inter-organisational learning outcomes and enterprises performance results are analysed. The fourth paper brings readers to the marketing field. Vytautas Jušcius and Viktorija Grigaite examine how relationship marketing practice, prevalence and opportunities reveal themselves in Lithuanian logistics organisations. Within the paper, relationships between organisations and customers are analysed, emphasizing individual aspects of relationship marketing. The marketing theme is continued in the paper by Laura Salciuviene, James Reardon and Vilte Auruskeviciene, entitled “Antecedents of performance of multi-level channels in transitional economies”. The study examines the antecedents of channel performance in the multi-level marketing channel. Multi-level (MLM) or network marketing channels are seen as alternatives to regular channels where retailers sit between the product/service and the end consumer. The paper is followed by Olga Ivanova and Sylvaine Castellano’s work on “The impact of globalization on legitimacy signals – the case of organizations in transition environments”. The paper seeks to discover how SMEs from transition environment manage when they are involved in the international activities. The final paper, by Lineta Ramoniene and Marius Lanskoronkis, “Reflection of higher education aspects in the conception of national competitiveness” seeks to discuss over the role of higher education in fostering national competitiveness.

I hope the papers will capture your interest as well as involve you in further debates on the topics.

Looking into the future of the BJM, apart from regular issues in the next two years two new special issues are planned. The first covers the topic of “Innovation based entrepreneurship”, and will be guest edited by Professor Marina Dabic, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Professor Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University, USA. The second is entitled “Innovations in accounting, performance measurement and management: international trends”, with guest editors Professor Toomas Haldma, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia; Professor Salme Nasi, University of Tampere, Finland, and Professor Giuseppe Grossi, University of Siena, Italy. Please consider submitting a paper.

As always I would appreciate your feedback and ideas for future development of the journal.

Asta Pundziene