2011 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 7 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2012.29507aaa.002

2011 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Baltic Journal of Management, Volume 7, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Baltic Journal of Management

Laura den DulkDepartment of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Pascale Peters, Erik Poutsma and Paul E.M. LigthartInstitute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an “extended conceptualization of the business case” including both organizational characteristics and institutional conditions to analyse employer involvement in extra statutory childcare and leave arrangements. Special attention is given to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.Design/methodology/approach – The (multi-level) multinomial regression analyses included company-level data on human-resource practices of 2,865 firms nested in 19 countries, representing all European welfare state regimes.Findings – The extended business case appeared fruitful in order to explain variations in employer involvement. Particularly, state support was found to be negatively related to employer involvement. In the liberal regime, employer involvement was high, but variations across organizations were significant. In CEE-countries, employer involvement was lowest, and did not vary by organizational business-case factors.Research limitations/implications – The paper used data from a cross-sectional survey. To capture the long-term trends, dynamics and nuances in employer involvement within and across various institutional contexts, a longitudinal in depth study is needed.Practical implications – While state support in many CEE countries is declining, the analyses showed that employers will not automatically step in by providing additional work-family arrangements. Social partners could use institutional pressure to stimulate a balance between state support and employer involvement.Originality/value – The extended business-case perspective contributes to the theory on the institutional embeddedness of decision making of employers. Moreover, it adds to the knowledge on employer involvement in institutional contexts which have hardly been studied before

Keywords: Child care, Eastern Europe, Employers, Human resource management, Western Europe

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This article originally appeared in Volume 5 Number 2, 2010, pp. 156-84, of Baltic Journal of Management

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

“Management orientation and export performance: the case of Norwegian ICT companies”

Carl Arthur Solberg and Ulf H. Olsson

This article originally appeared in Volume 5 Number 1, 2010, Baltic Journal of Management

“Building organizational trust in a low-trust societal context”

Raminta Pucetaite, Anna-Maija Lämsä and Aurelija Novelskaite

This article originally appeared in Volume 5 Number 2, 2010, Baltic Journal of Management

Outstanding Reviewers

Professor Tiit ElenurmEstonian Business School, Estonia

Professor Ralf MüllerUmeå University, Sweden