Citation
Pundziene, A. (2008), "Happy to serve our mission", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 3 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2008.29503caa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Happy to serve our mission
Article Type: Editorial From: Baltic Journal of Management, Volume 3, Issue 3
This current issue is in some sense exceptional for the BJM Editorial team for two reasons. First of all, with this issue we are presenting to the research community the winning paper of the 2007 Emerald/BMDA, Borderless Management Research Award for Young Researchers.
The Award seeks to promote dialogue between East and West management researchers, as well as excellence and innovativeness in international/cross-cultural management research. The Award-winning entry receives a cash prize of €1,500 (or currency equivalent), a certificate and publication in the Baltic Journal of Management as a full paper.
At this point we are happy to present Harri Lorentz, Turku School of Economics, Finland and the winning paper “Collaboration in Finnish-Russian supply chains – effects on performance and the role of experience”, as well as Nerijus Maciulis, ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania, with the paper “Foreign exchange risk hedging in the context of speculative revaluation attacks”.
The Award is open to those who are doctoral students in the last year of their doctoral programme, or to any researcher under 38 years of age.
Entries are judged on the following criteria:
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Significance/implications for theory and practice.
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Originality and innovation.
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International/ cross-cultural scope.
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Appropriateness and application of the methodology.
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Analysis and presentation of the data.
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Quality of the literature review.
This award is announced every second year; however we are looking for excellent papers all year round. When submitting them, please mark them prominently with the wording “For the Borderless Management Research Award for Young Researchers”.
The second item of good news that we are happy to share is that BJM has been accepted into Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), and will receive an Impact Factor for its 2010 volume onwards. It is one of the major indicators of quality academic research.
This is extremely important for BJM editorial team as we strive to contribute to an understanding of different management culture and provide readers with fresh look at emerging management practices and research in the countries of the Baltic region and beyond. BJM is the only journal that actively encourages dialogue between Baltic management researchers and supports research from the region. It is a notable achievement for a journal in only its third year, and I would like to thank all involved in the editorial process since the journal was launched.
Asta Pundziene