Editor’s introduction

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Campos e Cunha, R. (2011), "Editor’s introduction", Management Research, Vol. 9 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/mrjiam.2011.50609aaa.002

Editor’s introduction

Article Type: Editor’s introduction From: Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Volume 9, Issue 1

I begin with a brief assessment of the first year of Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management (MRJIAM) as an Emerald journal. During this year, the collaboration with Emerald has been excellent. There is greater visibility of the journal, the number of downloads was impressive, and promotion of the journal in conferences is greater. I am also sure the readers have found the new design and layout quite attractive and readable. For all this, I appreciate and acknowledge Emerald’s enormous effort, particularly by Cristina Irving, Development Editor of MRJIAM.

I also acknowledge the efforts of the members of the Editorial Advisory Board and many other scholars who have contributed their time and expertise to reviewing manuscripts. The list of external ad hoc reviewers in this issue is my way of thanking them for their work.

I must thank Isabel Dias, my Assistant for MRJIAM. She is the person who keeps track of all the schedules and keeps an impressively organized file of all submissions.

As of this issue of MRJIAM, the structured abstracts will be tri-lingual: English, Spanish and Portuguese. With the introduction of the Portuguese abstracts, we hope to increase the attractiveness of the journal for the Portuguese speaking scholars and their willingness to consider MRJIAM as their research outlet. It illustrates MRJIAM’s commitment to its Iberoamerican readership.

In this issue, we publish three research papers, one practice-oriented note and a viewpoint note.

The first paper, by Daniel Chu and Tales Andreassi, focuses on the process of innovation in biotechnology companies operating in Brazil. The authors use a qualitative analysis of seven case studies of biotechnology companies to analyze the dynamics of the sector and identify the critical factors in the innovation process. The paper elaborates on how companies, facing barriers such as access to financial resources and ambiguous institutional and regulatory factors, develop flexible organizational structures that promote innovation.

The second paper is a research note by Ilse Maria Beuren and Marines Lucia Boff. These authors analyze how companies seek for legitimacy in terms of environmental and social responsibility, using Lindblom’s strategies of organizational legitimacy, through a qualitative longitudinal study of 16 companies’ reports, over a period of ten years.

The third paper, by Martin Larraza-Kintana, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia and M. Robert Wiseman, provides a first test of a central proposition of the behavioral agency model. In particular, the authors focus on the framing of compensation induced in the CEO by the level of compensation and the performance targets included in the compensation contract, and their influence over the CEO’s willingness to select risky strategies. Their results show that risk bearing partially mediates the influence of compensation framing on risk taking and suggest implications for firms’ governance mechanisms.

The readers will also find a short practice-oriented note, by Pascual Berrone, who draws ten lessons for business leaders, based on a reflection on the results from the Soccer Worldcup, won by the Spanish squad, from a strategic management perspective. An interesting note that can be used in class, at academic programs or executive education!

Last, but not the least, in the section Young Iberoamerican Scholars, João Vieira da Cunha gives an individual account of career challenges for young PhDs in Iberoamerica and how he deals with them, considering his idiosyncratic research goals. We hope this paper will be interesting for all young researchers, and especially the ones that are using qualitative methods in their research projects.

As usual, I close this introduction by appealing to all of you to spread the word about MRJIAM and to submit!

Rita Campos e Cunha