Cadernos EBAPE.BR: mudanças e indicadores de 2020

Abstract

Amid the many challenges over the past year, Cadernos EBAPE.BR went through important changes. In this editorial, I would like to share some of these changes and the journal's numbers for 2020. The simplest change was the formatting rule. Since October 2020, we have adopted the American Psychological Association (APA) format for all new submissions. Thinking of the papers, dissertations, and theses of professional master's and doctoral programs, we created the Case Studies & Teaching Cases section to present empirical cases, accompanied by teaching or research notes. We also intensified the call for papers to elaborate thematic issues in 2020, such as the one for studies on refugees. We now have two calls for papers open: Uncertain consumption practices in an uncertain future, organized by professors Russel Belk, Luís Pessôa, and Vitor Lima, and Infrastructure delivery and project management in developing and emerging economies, with guest editors Lavagnon Ika, Marcos Lopez Rego, Vered Holzman, and Nuno Gil. These initiatives aim to give greater visibility to empirical studies and advance discussions in the areas of consumption and project management, considering their temporal and geographical peculiarities. And this was only the beginning! In 2021, new calls for papers with very exciting themes are on the way! In 2020, we had the pleasure of professors Russel Belk (