‘Call for Book Chapters’ for Bank performance measurement

 

Call for Book Chapters

Edited book

on

“Bank Performance Measurement at crossroad”

After the recent financial crisis, banks are seriously concerned about how to improve their performance measurement capabilities in light of changed economic and market conditions and new management requirements. New regulatory strictures, Capital requirements, new channels e.g. mobile phones are becoming more important in current era. Revenue growth continues to be difficult to achieve due to uncertain economic conditions, low interest rates. Banks are trying to manage costs better, deepen customer’s relationships, improve product mix and pricing decisions. These and other factors are causing banks to re-examine and improve the ways in which they measure and report true business performance.

The last 3 decades has seen a revolution in bank performance measurement. Traditional accounting based measures e.g. growth performance, ratio analysis have been principally replaced by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), that focus on the financial as well as the non-financial, and frameworks such as the Balanced Scorecard. Throughout this period we have seen significant research on the performance measurement tools/technique, but the emerging need is concerned with accurately and globally accepted uniform set of performance measures that should be able to predict the actual performance of the business enterprise.

Performance measurement is at a crossroads. The traditional measures of bank performance found weak in predicting the business failure and global crises. This suggests that our understanding of this field is incomplete. From a practical perspective, we have the additional complication of a fast moving business environment with globalization, increasing reliance on international supply chains, emerging markets and high-speed internet connectivity, not to mention the new organizational structures this brings. For all the good intents of initiatives such as Sarbanes Oxley, performance measurement and management practice failed to prevent the recent banking crisis.

In this special edited book, our intent is to draw together studies at the leading edge of the use of performance measurement. We are interested in different settings, both within and across organizations, and the application of performance measurement in different sectors and cultures. Finally, we are interested in trends and developments especially when linked to sound theoretical underpinning. Priority will be given to empirical studies of real world situations and organizations and high quality theoretical papers that make a direct contribution to our understanding of the field.

The following is a list of topics of interests for this edited book, but is not to be considered exhaustive: -

·         Relevancy of ratio and growth based performance analysis in current scenario

·         Market based performance indicators: Stock market, EVA/MVA and decision making

·         Bankruptcy/Bank Failure prediction modeling: determinants, effects and causal relationship

·         Risk Analysis and its Modeling

·         Modeling of performance measurement approaches

·         ‘Balance Score Card’ non-financial performance measurement tool

·         DEA: Emerging issues

·         Bank performance: determinants, effects and causal relationship

·         Branch level performance: Emerging issues  

·         Appropriateness of CAMELS rating

·         Issues in Statistical, Econometrics, Index and aggregation based methodology for bank performance measurement

·         Service Quality Measurement

·         Managerial potentials measurement and its effect on bank’s financial performance

·         Basal accord: Futuristic issues and effects on bank performance

·         Economic condition, regulatory framework, strategic choices and bank performance

·         Proposed techniques, approaches and modeling for bank performance analysis

We expect that studies submitted will use a variety of approaches, theoretical lenses and methodologies, quasi- experimental and experimental research. We would particularly welcome studies that show longitudinal progress of performance measurement.

The editors will acknowledge receipt of the paper and then will first review the submissions for relevance to the special issue. Only high quality and selective manuscripts will find a place in this edited book.

Useful Guidelines for authors:

v  Authors are required to submit their full papers, not exceeding 8000 words, by only electronic submission in the form of a word file as an e-mail attachment to the editor at call4bookchapters@gmail.com

v  Authors should submit only original manuscripts for consideration for review and publication for the edited book. The authors should ensure that the article has not been submitted nor published elsewhere and they are also required to fill the copyright form send by us.

v  Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise and grammatically correct language. The entire manuscript, including references, should be typed 1.5 spaced and font size should be only 11.5. Leave one line space between two paragraphs.

v  Manuscript headings should be divided into two main and sub headings. Main heading should be in capital with font size 13 & bold and all sub-headings should be in capital with font size 12 & bold. In addition, all headings and sub headings should be numbered according to their main heading.

v  Each table/figure must have a title and should be numbered consecutively.

Guidelines for References

v  Relevant works must be cited in the reference list at the end of the paper in an alphabetical order. Authors are advised to include only those references which have been used in their paper. Some of the guidelines/examples for references are as follows.

Books:      

Gujarati, D (2003), “Basic Econometrics”, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Contributions to books:

Elson, D (1996), “Appraising Recent Developments in the World Market for Nimble Fingers” in Chhachhi and R Pittin (ed) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press) 35-55.

Journal and other articles:

Helleiner, Eric (2006), “Reinterpreting Bretton Woods: International Development and the Neglected Origins of Embedded Liberalism”, Development and Change, 37(5): 943-967.

Conference papers:

Gupta, Vijaya (2006), “Non-Market Valuation of the Benefits of Environmental Quality of Powai Lake”, Mumbai, Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 16-18 December, New Delhi.

Important Dates:

Submission of Paper: 31^st December, 2012

Communication of Acceptance of Final Paper: 15^th March, 2013

Proposed date of Final book Print: 30^th June, 2013

Editor:

Dr. Parveen Chauhan (Ph.d)