“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path” — Morpheu

In 2003, the following questions were exposed to the scientific community of operations management: “Do we contribute so little because we are irrelevant?” or “Are we irrelevant because we contribute so little?” (Ford, Duncan, Bedeian, Ginter, Rousculp & Adams, 2005, p. 36). It is not a new issue for the scientific community, but it...

Several smart cities initiatives are currently underway around the world, and this trend is expected to grow in the coming years. Such initiatives should be designed according to the needs and conditions of each municipality, with the aim of expanding or generating public value for stakeholders. This paper analyzes the results obtained from a first evaluation cycle of the Smart Cities MethodoLogy and its components (a reference model and an assessment method), developed based on a Public...

The methodology of design science (DS) has been emerging as a new form of engaged scholarship in which key managerial and organizational challenges are addressed and solved. These developments have major implications for management education, which has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of relevance to practitioners. However, design science methodology and its implications for management education are still unclear and disputed. Teaching and learning DS thus often suffers from the...

This study aimed to propose a business model framework for Brazilian agriculture from an integrative perspective between theory and practice. To do so, Design Research was adopted from the triangulation of data, combining primary and secondary data collection, a systematic review of the literature on the business model and its main frameworks. Field research included the application of a questionnaire with 531 producers and an in-depth interview with another 30 to capture their insight...

The emergence of globally distributed teams and the evolution of mobile technologies have increased the number of mobile knowledge workers (MKW). MKW are professionals who frequently work on the move, far from a fixed workplace, performing knowledge-intensive activities. MKW often work alone, which leads them to face constant challenges in their work practices and difficulties to get timely knowledge to solve their problems alone. Still, little is known about how the collaborative...

Understanding a business model is at the core of organizational strategy, competitiveness, and business sustainability. Descriptive approaches to understand business models are often based on the analysis of their components by looking at organizational assets, resources, plans, and competencies. Although there are numerous contributions in the literature, few guidelines are offered regarding an Activity System perspective, in a prescriptive rather than a descriptive way. In this study, we...

More than 95 percent of all the businesses around the globe are small- and medium-sized (International Organization for Standardization [ISO], 2016). However, the limited resources of small businesses represent a difficulty in implementing a quality management system (QMS) complied with ISO 9001:2015, which is many times demanded by the supply chain of these companies. The object of this research was to develop an artifact, named e-Qualifácil, to access the current stage of the small...

Project portfolio management has been studied through diverse aspects. Different approaches have been used to improve project portfolio selection, but not all of them have been actually used. This study presents an artifact to improve project portfolio selection process in universities. The artifact considers strategic alignment and focuses on achieving consensus, considering university characteristics about strategic planning and decision making environment. The artifact was developed...

This work proposes an artifact oriented by Design Science (DS) methods for measuring the degree of boldness in business social actors, especially entrepreneurs and businesspeople. To construct the artifact, the work of Eysenck and Wilson (1975) was used. The methodological approach used was Design Science, as the present object of study is considered an information artifact and, as such, has functions of data processing, reducing entropy (vision of syntax), forming meaning (vision of...

Editorial policy committee
Jay Barney (University of Utah, USA)
Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini (UFPB, Brazil)
Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneiro (FGV/SP, Brazil)
S. Tamer Cavusgil (Georgia State University, USA)
Pervez Ghauri (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sérgio Giovanetti Lazzarini (Insper, Brazil)
Bryan Husted (York University, Canada, and ITESM, Mexico)
Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada (UFRGS, Brazil)
Maria José Tonelli (FGV/SP, Brazil)
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During the review process for articles submitted to BAR, the editor-in-chief counts on the support of a multi-institution group comprised of well-known experts from the Brazilian and the international scholarly communities. They assist the editor-in-chief with desk reviews, selection of reviewers, review reports and recommendations, and discussing the journal’s...