The International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management - Special Issue on: Research Methods in Productivity and Performance Management Research
Special Issue on: Research Methods in Productivity and Performance Management Research
The International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management has always supported interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and so, in keeping with this agenda, this Special Issue invites contributions from academic and practitioner researchers who are using novel research methods approaches to underpin their scholarship.
In keeping with Holloway and Thorpe (2008) which celebrated different approaches to scholarship in this area, this Special Issue focuses on the multitude of approaches to deriving those findings that underpin interpretations of the productivity and performance management. We invite papers that adhere to either end of the perceived qualitative-qualitative divide, that use mixed methods, or that offer new methods and approaches. The roots of productivity and performance management come from what we might term “hard-core quantitative studies” and yet our knowledge has been enhanced and improved through complementary research that uses or integrates qualitative techniques. This Special Issue will provide readers the chance to reflect on their understanding of well-known approaches whilst looking forwards to those new directions that may offer new insights into productivity and performance management research.
Guest Edited by:
Carmel de Nahlik, Head of Ethics and Governance ,
Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University, Coventry , CV1 5FB , UK c.denahlik@coventry.ac.uk
Mark Saunders, Professor in Business Research Methods,
School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
mark.saunders@surrey.ac.uk
Possible areas but not limited to include:
- New metrics for productivity, performance management and control;
- The measurement of and novel approaches to operationalisation of existing constructs;
- Interrelationships between hard systems approaches and human environments and behavioural systems;
- Approaches by individuals towards control systems, either formal or informal, and behaviours at individual or group level as responses to change.
- Operationalisation of cognitive criteria in the domain area of productivity and performance management including values and attitudes of individuals or groups concerning various environments and expectations. We especially welcome structural equation modeling studies;
- Evaluations of the effectiveness of governance systems and performance management systems designed to accomplish specific objectives including those addressing the intersection of policy and practice in this area;
- Mixed methods approaches to productivity and performance
Please kindly read the author guidelines on the journal homepage before submitting your manuscript, to ensure it is consistent with the journal style. www.emeraldinsight.com/ijppm.htm
The closing date for submissions is: 31 March 2010
Submissions should be labeled with the special issue title and sent to: Kay Wilkinson kwilkinson@emeraldinsight.com