BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
BAR is a scholarly journal on business and public administration published quarterly since 2004 by ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management). BAR is a fully open-access online journal that is a member and abides by the principles of COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics for scholarly publication. BAR is available in most indexing services, including Scopus, Scielo and Web of Science
BAR’s mission is to advance scholarly knowledge on management and organizational theories so as to assist business and public administration worldwide by means of the global dissemination of conceptual and empirical studies developed in Brazil and other countries.
The journal publishes conceptual and empirical studies within the broad interests of business and public administration. Theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome as long as they are insightful also for practice. BAR documents should not focus on a particular country/region and must convey theoretical, methodological, and applied advancements to the frontiers of scholarly knowledge on a global scale. BAR’s editorial scope does not include teaching cases or purely applied practitioner-oriented material.
BAR's target audience is the global scholarly community in all interests of business and public administration.
Indicators (1st Quarter of 2026)
Average time for the first round of peer review: 100 days (between the initial submission and the decision of the first round of peer review)
Average time for the complete peer review process: 203 days (from the initial submission, through the full peer review process, to a final decision of acceptance or rejection)
Average time from submission to publication: 246 days (between the submission of the article and its publication in an issue)
Submission acceptance rate: 17%
Current Issue
Vol. 23 No. 2 (2026): Apr/Jun - 2026
Published: 2026-04-15
Thinking Outside the Box
Why Do Management Scholars Avoid Experiments? A Necessary Provocation
Despite the consolidation of experimental designs as a central standard for causal inference in adjacent fields, experiments remain peripheral in large segments of management research. This article argues that such marginalization is not primarily technical, but epistemic and institutional. It reconstructs six recurrent objections — complexity, external validity, feasibility, theory reduction, non-manipulability, and ethical scope — that structure skepticism toward experimentation and...
Read more →Rethinking Operations and Supply Chain Management Research in Emerging Economies: Fostering New Methods, Topics, and Approaches
Research in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) in emerging economies has gained rigor and international visibility in recent years. This progress reflects increasing integration into global debates and methodological standards. However, much of the literature remains strongly performance-oriented and firm-centric, often overlooking institutional fragility, informality, and power asymmetries that shape OSCM in these contexts. By thinking outside the box, this paper proposes that...
Read more →Interview
Navigating the Academic Publication Landscape: Reflections on Peer Review, Editorial Practices, and Research Quality
The academic publication landscape in marketing and management has changed greatly in the past decades. In this interview, Professor Adamantios Diamantopoulos reflects on increased competition in top journals, the rise of open-access outlets, higher methodological standards, and more complex editorial structures. Drawing on his experience as an author, reviewer, associate editor, and editor, he discusses changes in peer review, editorial roles, and the challenges of desk rejections and...
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