Convergência, Comunicação, e Impacto da Pesquisa em Negócios

Abstract

In this first editorial of Volume 23 of the Journal of Contemporary Administration (RAC), which begins this year of 2019 full of expectations, I would like to address two subjects that I believe are relevant to the efforts of business research, especially within the context of emerging economies: the convergence and communication of business research. Research efforts should not only have a purpose, but also need to be responsive to the changes that the world is going through and their current trend in the direction of growing complexity (Medina, Goles, Zarama, & Rica, 2017). In other words, research efforts should consider the needs of society and the problems that result from them. In a well-known Brazilian television program (TV Cultura, 2016), Professor Lee Sing Kong, ex-Director of Singapore's National Institute of Education, when asked about the aspects that he believes are pillars of the education system in his country, responded: developing the capacity of our students in terms of two abilitiesknowing how to ask and knowing how to work as part of a team. For this approach to be something present and demonstrable in business research, which by its nature is characterized by the need to reflect different domains and fields of knowledge, it is necessary to pay attention to two preceding aspects, which should serve as a compass for business research programs designed to have a greater impact on society: convergence and communication. Convergence brings together knowledge, ideas and tools from various fields of expertise to stimulate innovative research (Mendes-Da-Silva, 2019). This represents a significant change in the culture of business research institutions, as well as companies that wish to keep the term innovation on their agenda. Frequently companies and business research institutions have organizational structures that take the form of departments, and these are frequently based on disciplines (Ertas, Maxwell, Rainey, & Tanik, 2003). Thus, complex problems such as climate change, demographic transitions due to aging, the reduction of poverty and hunger, migratory movements, social justice, the spread of disease, renewable forms of energy, and human health, among others, require equally complex and multidisciplinary approaches.

Impacto multidimensional da pesquisa: desenvolvimento e teste de um modelo para avaliação

“…No campo da Administração, a questão do impacto da pesquisa além da dimensão acadêmica tem sido objeto de editoriais de revistas internacionais, tais como Journal of International Business Studies (Bello & Kostova, 2012), Academy of Management Journal (George, 2016) e Journal of Management Studies (Wickert, 2021). No Brasil, a mesma questão tem sido objeto de diversos artigos de posicionamento no Cadernos EBAPE.BR (Costa, Machado, & Câmara, 2022), na Revista de Administração de Empresas (Lazzarini, 2017), na Revista de Administração Contemporânea (Mendes-da-Silva, 2019), na RAUSP Management Journal (Sandes-Guimarães & Hourneaux Junior, 2020) e em Organizações & Sociedade (Ventura & Davel, 2021). Os desafios trazidos pelas mudanças climáticas e pela pandemia da COVID-19, somados a questões sociais tradicionais, tais como desigualdade, violência urbana, saúde e educação, tornaram mais urgentes as mudanças.…”