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German Journal of Human Resource Management

German Journal of Human Resource Management

Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

eISSN: 23970030 | ISSN: 23970022 | Current volume: 38 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly

The German Journal of Human Resource Management (GHRM), formerly Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP), was founded in 1987 and is one of the world’s oldest academic journals published in this specialism. From its origins as a forum for research from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the German Journal of Human Resource Management has broadened its reach to the international academic HR community and is the only HR journal outside the US and UK listed in the Social Science Citation Index.

Double blind peer-reviewed and published quarterly, the German Journal of Human Resource Management covers a broad spectrum of research topics related to human resource management, employment relations, behaviour in organisations and personnel economics. The Journal has an international editorial team and board and welcomes scholarly work from regions outside German-speaking countries. From October 2020, GHRM will accept the submission of original contributions in English only.

The German Journal of Human Resource Management also publishes special issues on current research topics which are edited by international guest editors. Previous special issues include Green HRM, International HRM, HRM in Professional Service Firms, HRM from a Paradox Perspective and From Silence to Voice in Organizations Personnel Economics, Organizational Working Time Regimes and HRM in Family Firms.

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The German Journal of Human Resource Management (GHRM) formerly Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP), is a leading peer-reviewed resource for the international HR community, with a global reach and editorial board.

It publishes quarterly and aims to advance scientific knowledge covering a broad spectrum of research topics related to human resource management, employment relations, behaviour in organisations and personnel economics. It publishes both theoretical articles as well as empirical work and is open to a wide range of methodological approaches. From October 2020, GHRM will accept the submission of original contributions in English only.

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Editors-in-Chief
Michael Beckmann University of Basel, Switzerland
Martin Schneider Paderborn University, Germany
Associate Editors
Torsten Biemann University of Mannheim, Germany
Julia Brandl University of Innsbruck, Austria
Bernadette Bullinger IE University, Madrid
Helen De Cieri Monash University, Australia
Robert Dur Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Anders Dysvik BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Marion Festing ESCP Business School, Germany
Fabian Jintae Froese University of Göttingen, Germany
Christian Grund RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Marjaana Gunkel Free University Bozen, Italy
Chrsitine Harbring RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Anne-Wil Harzing Middlesex University London, UK
Axel Haunschild Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Stephan Kaiser Univerity of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany
Lena Knappert Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael Müller-Camen WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Renate Ortlieb University of Graz, Austria
Tanja Rabl RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
Stefan Süß Heinrich Heine University, Germany
Beatrice van der Heijden Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Jürgen Wegge Technical University Dresden, Germany
Editorial Board
Dorothea Alewell University of Hamburg, Germany
Yochanan Altmann University of Haifa, Israel
Cordula Barzantny Toulouse Business School, France
Jamie Bonache University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Janine Bosack Dublin City University, Ireland
Peter Dowling La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia
David E. Guest King’s College London, UK
Monika Hamori  
Lisa Handke FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Sven Hauff University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany
Markus Helfen Freie Universita¨t Berlin, Germany
Martin Högl LMU Munich, Germany
Christina Hoon Bielefeld University, Germany
Anja Iseke OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Eric Kearney University of Potsdam, Germany
Anne Keegan University College Dublin, Ireland
Hugo Kehr Technical University of Munich, Germany
Rudolf Kerschreiter Free University Berlin, Germany
Martin Kleinmann University of Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander Koch Aarhus University, Denmark
Florian Kunze University of Konstanz, Germany
Wenzel Matiaske University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany
Wolfgang Mayrhofer WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Bertolt Meyer Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
Anne-Katrin Neyer Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Eddy Ng Queen's University, Canada
Markus Pudelko University of Tübingen, Germany
Shuang Ren Queens University Belfast, UK
Doug Renwick Nottingham Trent University, UK
Karin Sanders UNSW Sydney, Australia
Thomas Schneidhofer Private University Seeburg, Austria
Hugh Scullion University of Hull, UK
Stefan Strohmeier Saarland University, Germany
Mary Triana Vanderbilt University, USA
Donald Truxillo University of Limerick Kemmy Business School, Ireland
Laura Venz Leuphana University Lündeburg, Germany
Mo Wang University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, USA
Mona Weiss Free University Berlin, Germany
Johannes Wendsche Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Germany
Uta Wilkens Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Hannes Zacher Leipzig University, Germany
Thomas Zwick University of Würzburg, Germany
Senior Editors
David Marsden† London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Oswald Neuberger University of Augsburg, Germany
Werner Nienhüser University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hans-Gerd Ridder Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Christian Scholz † Saarland University, Germany
Thomas Spengler Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Susanne Tietze Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dudo von Eckardstein WU Vienna, Austria
Hartmut Wächter † Trier University, Germany
Wolfgang Weber † Paderborn University, Germany
Jürgen Weibler University of Hagen, Germany
Rolf Wunderer University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
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