Takeyoshi Imasato

The Brazilian scientific output published in journals: A study based on a large CV database

We assemble a massive sample of 180,000 CVs of Brazilian academic researchers of all disciplines from the Lattes platform. From the CVs we gather information on key variables related to the researchers and their publications. We find males are more productive in terms of quantity of publications, but the effect of gender in terms of research impact is mixed for individual groups of subject areas. Holding a PhD from abroad increases the chance for a researcher to publish in journals of higher impact, whereas domestic PhDs publish more articles, but in journals of less impact. Thus, there is a trade-off between quantity and research impact. We also find that the more years a researcher takes to finish his or her doctorate, the more likely he or she will publish less thereafter, although in outlets of higher impact. The data also support the existence of an inverted U-shaped function relating research age and productivity.

Autoridade e legitimidade em estratégia

Autoridade e legitimidade sao conceitos fundamentais em estrategia. A autoridade do estrategista - em especial o estrategista da grande empresa - costuma se basear na validade legitima de sua posicao, de suas praticas e do tipo de conhecimento usado. A area de estrategia, por sua vez, costuma fornecer bases legitimas para a autoridade do estrategista e tambem ser legitimada pelo estrategista e suas praticas. Essa combinacao de caracteristicas ajuda a explicar a extraordinaria expansao territario-internacional da grande empresa e da area de estrategia nas ultimas decadas e tambem por que a autoridade de estrategistas e das grandes empresas vem sendo amplamente desafiada na era da globalizacao. Com base na contribuicao de Max Weber, este artigo mostra a importância da dimensao territorio internacional da autoridade e da legitimidade para estrategistas e para a area de estrategia. Os autores argumentam que o conhecimento produzido nos EUA e problematico no Brasil, porque nao reconhece questoes de poder e politica ressaltadas por Weber nem os diferentes tipos de estrategistas que fazem parte de economias emergentes. Ao final, os autores sugerem como e por que a area de estrategia no Brasil pode ajudar a compreender e a construir a autoridade legitima de estrategistas em economias emergentes.

Delinking legitimacy: a decolonial critique of Brazilian ethanol

Purpose – By adopting a decolonial critical standpoint, the scope of this paper is to discuss the concept of legitimacy in the international management (IM) field and conduct a critique of its epistemological limitations.Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the approach to legitimacy most commonly used in the IM field in order to understand its limitations in analyzing the historical development of Brazilian ethanol.Findings – The historical analysis of the Brazilian case shows that the narrow perspective underpinning the concept of legitimacy in the IM literature overlooks broader political and power relations since the focus of analysis is conducted from the standpoint of multinational corporations operating abroad. Thus, coloniality, international impositions of trends and fashions, illegitimacy and delegitimations, and dominant colonial designs are particular examples of forms of power and politics that are not visible in analysis using legitimacy in IM.Originality/value – IM has rarely u...

Lotka’s law for the Brazilian scientific output published in journals

Lotka’s law is a power law for the frequency of scholarly publications. We show that Lotka’s law cannot be dismissed after considering a massive sample of the number of publications of Brazilian researchers in journals listed on the SCImago Journal Rank and the Journal Citation Reports. For the SCImago Journal Rank, we found a power law with the Pareto exponent of 0.4 beyond the threshold of 50 papers. This means computing the ‘average number of publications’ of either a researcher or a discipline is of no practical significance.

What strategic management has to do with capitalism(s)

The many debates on capitalism within the context of continuous crises of neoliberal globalization, although unsurprisingly overlooked by the literature on strategic management (SM), are of central...

Coronelismo: um referente anacrônico no espaço organizacional brasileiro contemporâneo?

A partir de Coronelismo, Enxada e Voto, de Victor Nunes Leal (1949) – obra classica interpretativa do Brasil –, o referente coronelismo vem sendo estudado como uma manifestacao singular de poder/autoridade do espaco organizacional brasileiro. Para alguns, entretanto, esse referente se apresenta como uma forma historica datada de mandonismo, caracteristica do cenario politico brasileiro da Republica Velha. Neste ensaio analisamos a pertinencia ou nao-pertinencia da sobrevivencia desse referente no espaco organizacional do Brasil atual. A reflexao aqui formulada postula que o coronelismo tem sobrevivido historicamente no ambiente brasileiro, quer no seu significante transformado coronelismo eletronico como, ainda, sob outras formas de manifestacao. A analise ora proposta revela que as semioses desses referentes linguisticos apresentam os tracos semiologicos semelhantes. Como conclusao, postula-se que o referente generico coronelismo, ao sofrer re-significacoes ao longo da Historia, tem-se mantido como forma viva e singular de mandonismo da cultura politica organizacional no Brasil.

Jogos eletrônicos e cultura mediada por computadores: paradoxos culturais e organizacionais advindos das inovações em tecnologias de informação

Information technologies and microelectronics, through personal computers, Internet, email, among others tools, are undeniably creating changes in the dynamics of social relations and consequently modifying cultural elements of contemporary society. On the other hand we are confronted with an old fact of our civilization that still persists: war. This article discusses a situation where these two sets of historical events come together. By presenting a case study of a community formed by Brazilians called Brazilian Power, people who gather to play America’s Army, an electronic game created by the United States Army, this article analyzes and tries to understand the culture of this organization and to disclose some of the cultural paradoxes resulting from new information technologies.