Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo

Information selection by managers: priorities and values attributed to the dimensions of information

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to understand the values perceived and the priorities attributed by the managers to four dimensions of information quality associated with meta-information commonly used in the initial selection (scanning) of content by managers: source credibility, comprehensiveness, timeliness, and confidentiality. Design/methodology/approach – The study involved conducting simulations of information selection for decision making with 124 professionals from 11 different companies. The results were analysed with content analysis techniques, nonparametric statistics, and cluster analysis. Findings – Three levels of priority were found in the managers’ information selection process: the credibility and timeliness dimensions were the most highly prioritised, the comprehensiveness dimension was the least prioritised, and the confidentiality dimension occupied an intermediate position. The preferences of the managers are for current information and a well-known source with respect to the ...

Proposal of indicators for the structural analysis of scientific articles

This study aims to identify variables and indicators that substantiate the development of rules that focus on the structural analysis of scientific articles. Variables and indicators for structural analysis are derived from hypotheses deduced from editorials in important scientific journals. To exemplify and test the indicators, a structural analysis was conducted of 108 scientific articles published in important journals in the field of Management. The hypotheses were mostly tested in accordance with the idea of estimation statistics. The approach that was developed for the structural analysis of the network of texts innovates by employing network analysis indicators (indegree and outdegree). For this purpose, the text matrix is employed through the identification and encoding of cross-references between sections and subsections of each article under study. For the context in question, the field of Management, twelve rules were developed. The interpretations of the possible values for the indicators, expressed in the form of rules, are applied as directives to less experienced scholars in preparing their scientific articles, and for the generation of information to support activities concerning the classification and analysis of scientific articles.

A PESQUISA DESIGN SCIENCE NO BRASIL SEGUNDO AS PUBLICAÇÕES EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA INFORMAÇÃO

Este artigo realiza uma revisao da literatura das pesquisas publicadas pela academia brasileira de administracao da informacao com o objetivo de analisar o quanto se aplica e como se pratica os principios da pesquisa design science (DS). A amostra da pesquisa foi extraida de 257 artigos publicados por esta area, nos anais do EnANPAD, no periodo 2008-2012. Observou-se o interesse manifesto dos pesquisadores pela DS, considerando que ha publicacoes referentes ao desenvolvimento de novos artefatos. Estas pesquisas, porem, nao observaram aspectos centrais da DS, como: associacao do artefato a problemas do ambiente de negocios e evidenciacao da utilidade do artefato por meio de testes com variaveis associadas ao problema.

Declaration of input sources in scientific research: should this practice be incorporated to organizational information management?

This research studies the declaration of input sources for research in scientific communications, more specifically, whether this practice of the academy may be considered a good example to be followed by organizations. Seven hypotheses address two dimensions of input sources: origin (primary or secondary) and nature (data or information). It appears that the declaration of research inputs in the academy is problematic, mostly incomplete or inaccurate. This does not reduce the importance of this practice; it simply indicates that the academy should not be considered a privileged space, with wide dominance and practice excellence. Nevertheless, the information environment of organizations can learn and benefit from the experience of the scientific academy. From the analyses of the research sample, a set of procedures has been developed, which allowed organizational analysts and researchers to elaborate a complete and accurate analysis of the input sources to be declared in organizational or scientific communication.