Published: 2017-07-03

Writing to have an impact factor?

Salomão Alencar de Farias
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Editorial Advisory Board
Arch Woodside (Boston College, USA)
Bryan Husted (York University, Canada, and ITESM, Mexico)
Jay Barney (University of Utah, USA)
Jorge Carneiro (Business Administration School of São Paulo, Brazil)
Pervez Ghauri (King´s College London, UK)
Rogério H. Quintella (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
S. Tamer Cavusgil (Georgia State University, USA)
Sergio Lazzarini (Insper Institute of Education and Research,...

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Organizational decline research review: Challenges and issues for a future research agenda

Fernando Antônio Ribeiro Serra, Rosiele Pinto, Luiz Guerrazzi, Manuel Portugal Ferreira
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Organizational decline is related to the deterioration of the resource base and performance of an organization for a sustained period of time. Although some studies have been conducted, it remains an understudied phenomenon, despite its importance. The study of organizational decline is faced with challenges to improving and increasing research. In this study, we analyze the scientific field of organizational decline in business and management journals with a high impact factor. We...

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Strategic management in hospitals: Tensions between the managerial and institutional lens

Lucilaine Maria Pascuci, Victor Meyer Júnior, João Marcelo Crubellate
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The relationship between organizations and their environments has been object of study by scholars of the theory of organizations and in discussions concerning organizational strategy. When these perspectives come together, two sets of different but overlapping forces in the strategy formation process are highlighted. The purpose of this study is to analyze how strategic management contributed to reducing tensions derived from managerial and institutional logics in philanthropic hospitals....

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Business-community relationships for extractive industries: A case study in Peru

Jose Ventura, Kety Jauregui
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Natural resource-based economies have long relied on foreign demand to fuel their growth. For instance, the extractive sectors in Peru have experienced a rapid expansion, driven by a rising demand for commodities. Alongside economic growth, extractive operations have triggered social and environmental concerns among the various stakeholders, thus resulting in either social conflict or a deterioration of the relationship between companies in the extractive industries and local communities....

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Sociomaterial practices: Challenges in developing a virtual business community platform in agriculture

Norberto Hoppen, Amarolinda da Costa Zanela Klein, Eduardo Henrique Rigoni
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Virtual business communities (VBC) are virtual networks of people who share common interests and comprise online software platforms that enables the fast exchange of information, collaboration and business interactions. From 2011 to 2015, we developed a design science research to create a VBC platform for an agricultural cluster of flower growers in the South of Brazil. The goal of this platform was to help to structure and strengthen this cluster by bringing together buyers and sellers...

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Ethical leadership in South Africa and Botswana

Priviledge Cheteni, Emmanuel Selemani Shindika
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This study was conducted to investigate the extent of ethical leadership practices in African public utilities, given the relatively high corruption reported in such institutions, with consequences of seriously constrained development of national economies and significant hindrance to good governance. Our aim was to establish potential benefits from ethical leadership in public sector agencies by analysing ethical leadership characteristics in the public sector from Botswana and South...

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Co-evolution of industry strategies and government policies: The case of the Brazilian automotive industry

Roberto Gonzalez Duarte, Suzana Braga Rodrigues
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This study examines the evolution of the automotive industry in Brazil and its key drivers. We argue that the rules of the game - industry policies - are an outcome of exchanges between the host government and industry. These arise from changes in economic and political environments and interdependence between industry and the country's economy. To this end, we draw upon literature on institutions and co-evolution to understand the industry footprint over a 50-year period, as well as its...

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