Editor’s introduction

Citation

Cunha, R.C.e. (2013), "Editor’s introduction", Management Research, Vol. 11 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-07-2013-0511

Editor’s introduction

Article Type: Editorial From: Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Volume 11, Issue 3

This issue of Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management marks the journal’s tenth anniversary. In these ten years, the dream of a few Iberoamerican scholars, who decided to form the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, as an affiliate of the Academy of Management, and this journal with it, became reality. MRJIAM is increasingly conquering a special place among researchers, from the Iberoamerican region (and other regions), who choose it as the outlet for their research. It has been a long journey, with several challenges and obstacles that have been successively vanquished. As Editor, I have to gratefully acknowledge the work of my predecessors, Isabel Gutierrez and Elizabeth Cabrera, who paved the way for all the positive results we have achieved so far. They set the standards of rigor that all authors have experienced during their submission and review process. I am also indebted to the members of the Editorial Board, who never denied help, when it was necessary and that have significantly contributed to the development of the journal. An important milestone in the life of the journal was the acquisition by Emerald. Their dynamic and professional approach has done much for the image, diffusion and stabilization of MRJIAM. Last, but not certainly the least, I have a special word of thanks to all submitting authors and to all anonymous reviewers. They are the reason for the existence of the journal; they are the key actors of its quality. In particular, I emphasize the contribution of young Iberoamerican researchers, who despite being in more research peripheral regions, keep on submitting and reviewing. To all of you, thank you!

It is my great pleasure to announce that MRJIAM will, in this year’s international conference of the IAM, have a monetary award for the best paper. I hope this award will motivate the many participants in the conference to keep considering MRJIAM as one of their publication outlets.

In this issue, we have one article in the HRM area and three articles in organizational theory. The first paper, by Patricia Martinez and Carolina B. Gómez, is a skillful comparison of the impact of two types of HR flexibility, flexitime and telework, on organizational citizenship behaviors, through the mediation of training and development opportunities. Their results suggest that telework is associated with less training and development opportunities and therefore, with decreased organizational citizenship behaviors.

The second paper, by Maria Batista, Antonio Feijo and Francisco Silva, analyses the impact of quality management practices in employee job involvement, job satisfaction, career satisfaction and organizational commitment. Their study has implications for managers towards increased commitment to quality practices, as a way to enhance employee positive attitudes towards their job as well as to attract and retain competent talent.

The third paper, by Walter Bataglia, Adilson Aderito Silva and Elvio Correa Porto, provides us a comprehensive analysis and validation of the organizational task environment (OTE) construct, based on data collected in Brazil, between 1996 and 2003, in many different manufacturing sectors.

If you are interested in the use social software in companies (as most people are nowadays) then you will want to read the paper by José Lindoval Aragão Matos and Rui Pedro Lourenço. They make an exploratory, qualitative study of the perceptions of social software managers (specifically blogs and wikis) regarding the role of these applications in knowledge management, project management and internal communication.

Finally, in the special section “To, from and beyond the margins”, João Vieira da Cunha provides an analytical framework to extend structuration theory of IT in organizations, which opens new lines and questions for research not only on differences among employees’ use of IT in organizations, but also in terms of workplace deviance.

I am sure the readers of MRJIAM will find this issue particularly rich in food for thought.

Finally, as usual, my last word is to motivate you to keep submitting to MRJIAM!

Rita Campos e Cunha