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Publishing Guidelines
Mission:
The RAC's mission is to contribute to a deep understanding of Contemporary Administration and its relationships with broader social problems through the dissemination of relevant scientific research papers, theoretical analyses, technological articles, teaching cases and provocations that can support academic and administrative action in public, private or civil society organizations. In addition, in order to collaborate to maintain the research's standards of ethics, and still allow the replicability of published studies, since June 2018 RAC adopted data policy and open materials.
Scope and Focus:
RAC is a journal focused on contemporary issues without losing sight of historicity and future perspectives. Thus, it publishes studies related to the administration of companies, public organizations or civil society. RAC seeks interdisciplinarity and epistemic plurality to position itself at the academic vanguard with a special look at ethical, diversity, responsibility, governance and sustainability issues. The objective is to publish studies of quality, relevance and impact, which can contribute to advance the scientific debate and respond to the contemporary challenges of society.
Target audience:
The target audience consists mainly of academics and, in parallel, managers of public, private and third sector organizations interested in the dialogue with the contemporary problems in which the Administration can contribute.
Requirements:
Theoretical-empirical articles, Theoretical Essays, Methodological Articles, Provocations, Executive Letters, Technological Articles, and Cases for Teaching submitted to RAC must be unpublished, nationally and internationally, and are not under consideration for publication in any other dissemination vehicle. The Journal of Contemporary Administration (RAC) accepts the submission of preprint articles when they are stored in trustful counterparts, such as Scielo Preprints, SSRN, and OSF. Papers published in annals of congresses may be considered by the Editorial Board, provided that they are in its final article form. Articles and documents may be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish.
Submission:
In order to submit works to RAC, authors should follow all steps and formatting requirements in the files Guidelines for Publication and Brief Summary of the APA Standards, available at https://rac.anpad.org.br/index.php/rac/about/submissions.
Areas of interest:
Information Management, Science and Technology Management, Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Behavior, Research and Teaching in Management, Organizational Strategy, Managerial Control and Finance, Agribusiness Management, Operations and Logistics Management, Personnel Management and Labor Relations, International Management, Management and Public Policy, Social and Environmental Management, Marketing, Organizations/Organizational Behavior, Organizations/Organizational Theory.
Analysis of Submitted Texts - Evaluation System
Text submitted to the journal will be sent for evaluation only after it is verified that they meet journal formatting and editorial standards
Theoretical-empirical articles, Theoretical Essays, Methodological Articles, Provocations, Technological Articles, and Cases for Teaching in Administration:The evaluation goes through a review system in which the first reading is exclusively intended to evaluate the relevance of the articles submitted, their suitability to the scope of the journal and aspects such as contribution and novelty (Theoretical-empirical articles, Theoretical Essays, Methodological Articles, Provocations), dilemma and quality of teaching notes (Cases for Teaching) and quality of applicability (Methodological Articles). Only works considered by editors and reviewers to be relevant to the community and, in particular, to the journal readers, will continue to the other evaluation stages. Once approved at this stage, the text follows to be double-blind peer reviewed.
Executive Letters: Submitted documents are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate or Invited Editors, in accordance with editorial policy, without external evaluation.
RAC performs similarity check in all articles that advance the desk-review stage. The journal seeks to detect plagiarism problems, self-plagiarism, insufficient and inadequate quotes. RAC adopts iThenticate system for plagiarism check.
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