Editorial

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Lettice, F. and McCracken, M. (2009), "Editorial", Team Performance Management, Vol. 15 No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1108/tpm.2009.13515aaa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: Team Performance Management, Volume 15, Issue 1/2

We reflect on a successful 2008, where we moved from single blind peer review to double blind review of each article submitted. Thanks for the continued support of the Editorial Advisory Board. We would like to thank the reviewers, professional scholars and practitioners, who provided high quality and timely reviews to authors. We plan to name the reviewers annually as a way of thanking them for their input to the journal. You can find the reviewers for 2008 in the list below. If you are interested in reviewing for the journal in future, please do let us know.

In 2008, we published 22 articles, with first authors representing 12 countries: seven from the UK, three each from Spain and USA and one each from Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey. A wide range of team performance management topics were represented, including team effectiveness, empowerment, communication, integration and growth, and these covered teams in diverse settings from schools and universities through to a wide range of industrial organisations. We also published our first Special Issue on “The impact of strategic performance management on team management and performance”, edited by Dr Vinh Sum Chau of Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. Thank you to Vinh for an interesting and topical special issue.

We would like to extend our congratulations to Charlene Stokes, Debra Steele-Johnson and Anupama Narayan, from Wright State University, USA for winning the 2008 Team Performance Management Outstanding Paper Award. Their article: “Gender composition of teams: effects of competition” can be found in Volume 13, No. 5/6, published in 2007.

In 2009, we will have another special issue on “Team performance management in the sports industry”, edited by Vanessa Ratten of Duquesne University, USA. This will be published in Volume 15, No. 3/4 in 2009. If you have any proposals for future special issues, please send us your ideas for consideration. We would particularly like to encourage special issues, which provide a platform for contributions from a diverse range of countries, to facilitate our aim of further increasing the internationalisation of the journal.

Editorial review board for Team Performance Management, 2008

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  Yehuda Baruch, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Travor Brown, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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  Vinh Sum Chau, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Eppie Clark, Warwick University, UK

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  Nick Clarke, University of Southampton, UK

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  Andrew Creed, Deakin University, Australia

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  Petru Cureu, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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  Terry Desombre, University of Surrey, UK

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  Ron Dvir, Innovation Ecology, Israel

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  Ingo Forstenlechner, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

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  Ajay Goyal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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  Jackie Granleese, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Paul Humphreys, University of Ulster, UK

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  Robert Kerr, University of Ulster, UK

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  Jeanette Lemmergard, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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  Annette Leslie, Cranfield University, UK

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  Elspeth McFadzean, Henley Management College, UK

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  David McGuire, Queen Margaret University, Scotland

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  Marie McHugh, Univerity of Ulster, UK

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  Jaideep Motwani, Grand Valley State University, USA

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  Alan Peslak, Penn State University, USA

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  Abdullah Promise Opute, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Mustafa Ozbilgin, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Pascal Paille, University of Laval, France

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  Linda M Peters, University of Massachusetts, USA

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  Rodley Pineda, Tennessee Technical University, USA

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  Ian Pyper, University of Ulster, UK

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  Ana Maria Romero-Martinez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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  Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK

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  Ana Shetach, The Max Stern Academic College of Emek-Yezreel, Israel

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  Alan D Smith, Robert Morris University, USA

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  Charlene Stokes, Wright State University, USA

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  Sudi Puliyur Sudarsanam, Cranfield University, UK

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  Donald Swanson, Deakin University, Australia

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  John Thompson, University of Ulster, UK

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  Linda S Wing, Human Systems Design, USA

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  Jonathan Winterton, ESC-Toulouse, France

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  Barry Witcher, University of East Anglia, UK

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  Alex Wong, University of East Anglia, UK

Fiona Lettice, Martin McCrackenCo-editors