Special Issue:
Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance
Editors: Prof. Marc Orlitzky, Ph.D., Penn State Altoona, USA
Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Since the 1960s, when the public became increasingly aware of the interdependence of organizations and the natural environment, the concept of corporate environmental performance has widely been used and discussed in scientific work, in business, and even in international and regional standards. Yet, there is no conclusive understanding of the concept. Empirical research on the different levels of corporate environmental performance and between corporate environmental performance and financial performance, innovation, or competitiveness has yielded hundreds of empirical studies--with findings that are conflicting rather than cumulative.
One methodological reason for these noncumulative findings after half a century of academic work is the inconsistent measurement of the focal construct of corporate environmental performance, but also the large variability in theories and postulated mediator and moderator variables.
This special issue of the Journal of Management Control (JoMaC) aims to contribute to mainstreaming the measurement of corporate environmental performance in organization studies, particularly as it relates to management control, strategic planning, and organizational decision making. We invite empirical, theoretical, or methodological papers, whose focus may include but is not limited to:
- Different levels of corporate environmental performance: business-unit vs. corporate level - How can they be consolidated?
- Differences in scope of corporate environmental performance: legal entity vs. total supply chain - How can they be combined?
- Different dimensions of corporate environmental performance: climate change, acidification, human toxicity, eutrophication etc. - How can they be aggregated?
- Different time perspectives of corporate environmental performance: operational vs. strategic - How are they interlinked?
- Different governance regimes of corporate environmental performance: mandatory vs. voluntary environmental management and/or disclosures - How do they produce differences in outcomes?
Your submission can be:
· an empirical study (both quantitative or qualitative, e.g., case studies),
· a systematic literature review with at least some new theory-building, or
· a methodological paper.
Journal of Management Control (JoMaC) is an international journal concerned with the formal, information-based routines and procedures managers use to maintain or alter patterns in organizational activities. Particular emphasis is placed on operational and strategic planning and control systems and their processes and techniques.
JoMaC was founded in Germany as the "Zeitschrift für Planung und Unternehmenssteuerung" in 1990 and has a strong reputation as a dedicated academic journal open to high-quality research on all aspects of management control. JoMaC is available via Springer Press at 5,486 institutions worldwide. The journal has a high download usage and short review and production cycles. Accepted papers are published online first 20 to 25 days after acceptance
We invite authors to submit their papers for a double-blind review process using our electronic review system Editorial Manager. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.
Language: English
Review: Double-blind review process
Length: 75,000 characters including abstract, footnotes and references, 1.5-spaced
Deadline: June 30, 2011
Submission: via Editorial Manager JoMaC web site:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jmac/
Editors for the special issue:
Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther
Technische Universität Dresden
Chair for Environmental Management and Accounting
Münchner Platz 1/3
011087 Dresden
Germany
Phone: + 49/351/4633 2833
Fax: + 49/351/4633 7764
e-mail: edeltraud.guenther@tu-dresden.de
Prof. Marc Orlitzky, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State U Altoona
3000 Ivyside Drive
214 Hawthorn
Altoona, PA 16601
USA
Phone: + 814-949-5772
E-mail: moo3@psu.edu