Abstract
The German Journal of Human Resource Management (GHRM) continues to develop and establish its position in the international landscape of human resource management journals. Behind this has been the change in name from Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) as a recognized journal with a strong reputation over several decades mainly in the German-speaking academic community to the German Journal of Human Resource Management, published in English by SAGE since 2016. With an enhanced readership the Journal can report a five-year-impact factor of 0.971 and the number of this year’s submissions, many of them ground-breaking, has risen to more than 130 by the end of November 2018.
An important contribution to the positive development of the Journal was the Special Issue on Organizational working time regimes: Managerial, occupational and institutional perspectives on extreme work edited by Blagov Blagoev, Sara Louise Muhr, Renate Ortlieb and Georg Schreyögg. The topic attracted a high number of submissions and led to an expanded, double issue. We are grateful to the guest editors for their engagement and hard work. The next Special Issues will cover the topics of Human Resource Management in Family Firms in 2019 and Research Paradigms in International Human Resource Management in 2020.
In 2018 the Editor-in-Chief team changed. After four years of excellent work for GHRM Christian Grund ended his term as Editor-in-Chief. A big thank you to him on behalf of the GHRM community. He has shown enthusiasm, a generous investment in time and energy in the international development of the Journal, the intellectual inspiration in critical content discussions and he has cooperated closely and constructively with the former Editor-in-Chief Michael Müller-Camen, the current Editor-in-Chief Renate Ortlieb, the Associate Editors, the reviewers and the authors. We are very pleased that Christian keeps his affiliation to GHRM as he resumes his former role as an Associate Editor. Marion Festing follows Christian Grund and joins the Editor-in-Chief team together with Renate Ortlieb.
Marion has supported GHRM for many years, first as a reviewer, then as an Editorial Board member and more recently as an Associate Editor. She is Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Europe and has published in leading international journals. Her major goal is to further develop the international reach and positioning of the Journal together with Renate Ortlieb. It is our pleasure to point out that GHRM will be led for the first time by a female team of Editors-in-Chief, reflecting the timely openness of the journal community to diversity and inclusion in academia.
A journal can only develop and grow with the strong backing of the scientific community. We would like to thank our colleagues, all experts in their fields, for voluntarily contributing their time to improving GHRM. Our Associate Editors as well as our reviewers did a tremendous job helping authors with constructive feedback to increase the overall quality of contributions. For their valuable reviewer engagement in 2018 we thank
Dorothea Alewell, Agnes Bäker, Cordula Barzantny, Matthias Baum, Myriam Bechtoldt, Michael Beckmann, Stig Berge Matthiesen, Torsten Biemann, Stephan Böhm, Kai Bormann, Janine Bosak, Paul Boselie, Julia Brandl, Kimberley Breevaart, Heiko Breitsohl, Brendan Burchell, Gabriele Buruck, Richard Croucher, Emily David, Mark Davies, Julia de Groote, Bart Debcki, Maike Debus, Katja Dlouhy, Peter J. Dowling, Dana Egerová, Andre Emmermacher, Gisela Gerlach, Marco Guerci, Stefan Güldenberg, Markus Helfen, Ute Hülsheger, Eric Kearney, Anne Keegan, Hugo Kehr, Heiko Kleve, Michael Knoll, Cornelius König, Karoline Kopperud, Jörg Korff, Kurt Kraiger, Stefan Krummaker, Alexander Madsen Sandvik, Jochen Menges, Marina Michalski, Alexandra Michel, Ingvild Müller Seljeseth, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Kyle Paradis, Erk Piening, Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Rico Pohling, Marybeth Rousseau, Ida Sabelis, Sabrina Schell, Georg Schreyögg, Helen Shipton, Barbara Sieben, Bruno Staffelbach, Holger Steinmetz, Stefan Suess, Dirk Van Dierendonck, Silvana Weiss, Johannes Wendsche and Thomas Zwick.
While the Journal experienced very positive development in 2018, there is more to do to make Volume 33 in 2019 a success. We continue to welcome submissions of original work in the areas of HRM, employment relations, behaviour in organizations and personnel economics and we look forward to working closely together with our Associate Editors and Editorial Board.