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Editorial
DearRAUSPManagementJournalreaders,
Itiswithgreatjoythatweendtheyear2017withthis com-memorative editionof the 70 years of RAUSP Management Journal.Afterall,seven decadesof existence forajournal in theManagementarea isquitearareevent.Besides beingthe oldestjournal,RAUSP ManagementJournalhasalsobecome oneof the mostrenownedandprestigiouspublicationsinthe fieldinBrazil.
Bythe timeofits creation,in1947,RAUSPManagement Journalhadas its mainobjectivethat of publishing the tech-nicalandscientificworks of theresearchers ofthe Schoolof Economics, Business Administration and Accounting of the UniversityofSãoPaulo.Overtheyears,however,RAUSP Man-agementJournalhasbecomeanimportantoutlettodisseminate the studiescarried out at majorBrazilian research centers to scholarsandpractitionersalike.RAUSPhasbeenhenceawarded thehighestgradeforaBrazilianjournal1bytheCAPESQualis systembyofMinistryofEducation.
Nowadays,RAUSP ManagementJournalaims toreachan evenhigherlevelofqualitybyseekinggreaterinternational vis-ibility.Itaimstoinvolveanincreasingnumberofinternational researcherswithinitspublications,astoobtaininternational dis-tinctioninits editions.The decision topublishall articles in theEnglish languagesince2016 isaclear stepinthis direc-tion.Allthosechanges,nevertheless,bringnewandsignificant challenges.
Tocelebratethe70thanniversaryanddiscussopportunities andchallengesforbothourandotherBrazilianjournalsinthe Managementarea,onJuly10,wehostedaforumwiththe edit-orsofthe mostimportantBrazilianmanagement journalsand honoredRAUSP’sformereditors.
The forum began with a speech by Professor Maria José Tonelli, editor of Revista de Administrac¸ão de Empresas
1 TheCAPESQualissystemaimstoclassifyscientificproductiondoneby
Brazilianresearchers.Allthescientificjournalsarelistedaccordingtothecriteria A1(thehighest),A2,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5orC(notconsideredasvalidinthe list).IntheManagementarea,currentlytherearenoBrazilianjournalslistedas A1.
of Fundac¸ão Getúlio Vargas (RAE-FGV). Tonelli, who had undertakenanintensive documentalresearchonbothRAUSP ManagementJournalandRAE-FGV,contextualizedthe histori-calimportanceofRAUSPManagementJournal,highlightingits roleinthedelimitationoftheManagementfieldinBrazil.Atthe endofthiseditorial,thereisaspecialarticlewrittenbyTonelli, who kindly agreed to cooperate with our celebration. In her article,sheanalyzesthefirsteditionsofRAUSPManagement Journal,reaffirmingthat“thefirsteditionofRAUSP Manage-ment Journal in 1947 should be considered the foundational markofthescientificfieldofBusinessAdministrationinBrazil.” Inthenextpart,ProfessorEduardoDiniz(EAESP-FGV) pre-sentedthelecture“TheBrazilianManagementjournalsinthe contextoftheinternationalizationofscientificproduction.”He launchedaseriesofquestionsonthedilemma:ifBrazilian jour-nals do not seek internationalization they will “lose national relevance.”Amongthepossibleinitiatives,hediscussedtheuse oftheEnglishlanguagefornationaljournals.Dinizemphasized that,ontheonehand,theadoptionoftheEnglishlanguageallows for greaterinternationalvisibilitybecauseitisthehegemonic languageinthemainacademiccircles.But,ontheother, pub-lishing inEnglish perse does not guaranteequality andcan leadtotheweakeningoflocaltraditions,turningthefieldinto “monocultural”knowledge.Heproposesajointactionsothat Brazilianjournalscouldgainscale,improvetheireditorial man-agementandsupporteachothertojointhemaininternational indexers.
Anotherspeaker,ProfessorLuizMesquita,fromtheArizona StateUniversityandamemberoftheeditorialboardofseveral Management journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal,discussed the majortrendsof theinternational Man-agementjournals,pointingouttherelevanttopicsthatbusiness journalsarefavoring.Henotedthatinadditiontoarticleswith sophisticatedstatisticalmethodsandtheuseofbigdata,thereis roomforgoodqualitativestudiesandmixedmethods,andfor workingoncreativeissuesthatchallengetraditionaltheoretical approaches.Healsounderlinedthegrowthofmultidisciplinary approaches, as is the case in the Management area, whose bodyofknowledgeimportsconceptsfromotherareassinceits beginning.
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Bytheend,aroundtablediscussionwasheldwiththe edit-orsofthenationalCAPESQualissystemsA2journals:Maria JoséTonelli(Revista deAdministrac¸ãodeEmpresas–RAE), Salomão AlencardeFarias (BrazilianAdministrationReview –BAR),HerbertKimura(RevistadeAdministrac¸ão Contem-porânea – RAC), Fabio Frezatti (Revista de Contabilidade e Financ¸as),SandroCabral(Organizac¸ões&Sociedade–O&S), andJoãoMaurícioBoaventura(RevistaBrasileiradeGestãoe Negócios– RBGN).Theseeditorsagreedthattherehadbeen anoverallimprovementineditorialmanagementprocesses,as well as on the quality of both articles and reviews over the lastdecade.However,theyalsoconcurredthattherearemany actionsyettobetakensothatBrazilianjournalscancompete equallywithtopinternationaljournals.Allhavethesame opin-ionthatthereisroomforcollectiveactionsbynationaljournals aimingatagreaterinternationalinsertion.Betweentheactions
suggested in that direction, better positioning the rules that reward scholars for their publicationsin foreign highimpact journals andinstitutional evaluationprocesses that encourage researcherstoinvestinlocaljournalsaswell,receivedgreater attention.
Moreinformationonthehistoryofourjournalcanbefound inourspecialguestpaper,writtenbyMariaJoséTonelli“The foundationoftheacademicfieldinBusinessandAdministration inBrazil:ThecaseofRAUSPManagementJournal”.
CongratulationsRAUSP!
FlavioHourneauxJunior,MariaSylviaMacchioneSaes
Co-EditorEditor-in-Chief E-mails:[email protected](F.HourneauxJunior),
