Editorial

Citation

Pundziene, A. (2012), "Editorial", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 7 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm.2012.29507aaa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: Baltic Journal of Management, Volume 7, Issue 1

The announcement of the impact factor in 2011 meant that 2011-2012 were breakthrough years for the Baltic Journal of Management (BJM). From 2008, when the journal was listed in the Web of Science, up until June 2011, the citation index was 0.565. By September of 2011 this had increased to 0.7. This shows the growing interest which the research community has in the journal and the relevance of the research published. At this point I would like to express my gratitude to the reviewers who have made a significant impact on the journal by reviewing the papers, as well as giving advice and recommendations to authors in order to develop their papers to publishable quality.

In 2012 four issues of BJM will be published, which will enable faster publishing of the papers. This issue contains six papers and for the first time it will be followed with a further three issues later in the year. The issue covers corporate social responsibility (CSR), employee motivation and performance, implementation of organisational changes, contagion of the financial crises, and competition in the liberalised railway freight market.

The aim of the first paper, which covers the linkage between HRM, CSR and performance outcomes, is to disclose the current situation in Lithuania on CSR, HRM development and their linkage with performance outcomes. The paper is based on the study of 119 medium- and large-sized enterprises in Lithuania. The findings show that CSR is not widely practised in Lithuanian enterprises, however it could be perceived as a predictor of performance outcomes. The second paper continues with the analysis of CSR and its contribution to internal employee motivation. The paper is based on a survey of 274 SME employees in Lithuania. The results of the survey show that there is a significant impact of CSR practices on internal employee motivation. The third paper examines the role of personality traits, work motivation and organizational safety climate in the risky occupational performance of professional drivers. It aims to prove that the effect of personality on risky driving is moderated by perceived organizational safety climate and work motivation. A total of 166 drivers were surveyed during the research and the results show that drivers with a higher level of extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness are less prone to risky driving. The next paper deals with change management during the transition in China and Estonia. The paper aims to investigate the impact of national culture and institutional framework on the employee’s reaction to change. A total of 160 Chinese and 134 Estonian enterprises were surveyed.

The final paper aims to give “an overview of variability of empirical results of several financial contagion studies taking into account the role of financial markets, data sets and the applied definitions and methods that may explain the variability of empirical evidence”. The aim of the last paper is to examine characteristics of entering the markets after the deregulations and stimulation of the competition.

I would like to invite you to read the papers and give your feedback.

Asta Pundziene