Editorial.
| Autor | Carneiro, Jorge |
Dear BAR Readers,
I am glad to announce three important steps that BAR has recently taken in order to increase the visibility of Brazilian academia and to continuously improve the quality of the review process and of editorial decisions:
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In mid-July, BAR started using ScholarOne (http://scholarone.com/)--a well- known submission and review platform employed by several top journals. This new platform surely will make life easier for submitting Authors, Reviewers and Editors. Manuscripts submitted before July 15th will continue their process in the traditional SciELO platform, while newly submitted articles will enter the new platform at http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/bar-scielo
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With ScholarOne, I now have more freedom to invite Associate Editors and ad hoc Editors from the best business schools around the world, since they will be using a platform with which they are already familiar. In fact, I have recently invited new Associate Editors, some of them from emerging markets.
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BAR has applied for indexation in Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge. This is a necessary step in a long process (more than three years) until BAR can eventually have its JCRs impact factor published. Although we agree that the impact factor should not be regarded as the only (or even the best) metric by which to judge journal quality and visibility, we contend that the impact factor is still a widely used metric.
BAR thanks SciELO for making the ScholarOne platform available to Brazilian journals and for SciELO's continued effort to improve the visibility of Brazilian publications.
Now, let me present the six good articles that compose this issue to you. The first three of them followed a fast track process, since they were pre-selected among those best evaluated in ANPAD's conferences. As you will recall, under the fast track fashion, articles go straight to the blind review phase (thus, skipping desk review) and, if eventually accepted, are published in the very next issue.
The first paper ("Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace? An Essay on Whistleblowing and its Interfaces with the Brazilian Culture", by Diego Sampaio and Filipe Sobral) investigates the influence of cultural traits on the practice of whistleblowing (i.e., the disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of some wrongdoing in a company) and integrates organizational, individual and situational influences.
The next article ("Rhetorical Strategies of...
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