Call for Papers

The theme of the 2018 conference is Performance Measurement and Management in a Globally Networked World. The environment in which we operate and the nature of work is continuing to change. The world is becoming more networked and faster moving forcing us to plan, review and respond faster than ever before. In this context the role of performance measurement and management is evolving. Increasingly we are finding that traditional management approaches are not fast enough for the speed and volume of data. Further, our people can be disenfranchised and left behind. We need to think again about our approaches to performance measurement and management, to see where what we currently do can be modified to fit the new landscape and to see what other new and radical approaches we can adopt to make organisations run better. Particularly we are looking for paper that makes empirical and theoretical contributions in the following areas:

• The interaction between strategy and performance measurement especially in fast moving environments
• Performance measurement and its role in organisational feedback and learning
• Performance measurement in coordination and networking
• Performance measurement and governance
• Management and organisational controls
• Performance measurement and performance management
• The theory and practice of performance planning and reviews
• Emerging performance measurement and management practices
• Performance measurement and management for knowledge workers
• The theory and practice of performance measurement and management in innovation and new product development
• Performance measurement and management and big data
• Sustainability and performance measurement and management
• The interplay between organisational design and performance measurement and management
• The theory and practice of performance measurement in reward systems
• The theory and practice of performance measurement in continuous improvement
• The impact of measurement and management practices on performance including unintended consequences
• Design of effective performance measurement and/or management systems
• Effective implementation of performance measurement and/or management systems
• Performance measurement and management as a system in a system of systems
• Performance measurement and management as a social system
• Performance measurement, people engagement and culture
• Performance measurement and management frameworks, models and standards
• Design and implementation of performance improvement interventions
• Theoretical underpinnings of performance measurement and management
• Theoretical perspectives on the use of performance measurement in management

In support of the conference we will be announcing our intentions to publish the volume of papers presented as a book and we will be working with leading journals to publish the most suitable output in academic and other journals.

Please visit the conference website (www.pmaconference.co.uk) and put the key dates in to your diary. Also, please remember to inform your colleagues of the conference, we are looking forward to laying on an inspirational platform for engaging and rewarding debate.

On behalf of the Organising Committee,
Prof Mike Bourne
m.bourne@cranfield.ac.uk