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Launched in 1993 and published uninterruptedly ever since, O&S (Organizations & Society) was the first journal in the area of Public and Business Administration created by and within a federal university in Brazil. In addition, the journal dared to define its scope as going beyond Public and Business Administration, considering that organizations cover a broader and multifaceted context. Since its foundation and over the years, the journal has always highlighted its open, plural and multidisciplinary position. That is, it has always housed articles expressing a diversity of visions, theories, methodologies, and epistemologies, extrapolating orthodoxy and valuing innovative themes.
During the flow of publications, many themes have occupied the attention of thematic editions (for example, the contribution of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, football as organization, the carnival as organization), as well as several personalities such as the literary figure João Ubaldo Ribeiro (2006, n. 37 and 38). In 2013, the journal began its e-publishing process, abandoning print publishing and turning to open diffusion on a digital basis. The journal has been included in important databases, it has accelerated the peer review process, improved its quality, and accentuated its internationalization.
In addition to the Public and Business Administration area, O&S is acknowledged in the areas of History, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Interdisciplinary, Social Work, and Urban and Regional Planning. O&S represents and symbolizes a lot for Brazilian researchers, in the context of the development of the Public and Business Administration area and, specifically, in the maturation and flourishing of the field of Organizational Studies in Brazil. O&S has offered, over time, a space for expression in which different, new, and unusual views can emerge. The journal promotes heterodox positions in Organizational Studies, but above all a vision of the organization in and for the society.
Past Editors-in-Chief
1993-1996 - Maurício Serva
1996-2013 - José Antônio Gomes de Pinho
2013-2014 - Mônica Mac-Allister
2016 - Antônio Sérgio Araújo Fernandes, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo e Sandro Cabral
2016-2019 - Ariádne Scalfoni
2014-2016 - Antônio Sérgio Araújo Fernandes, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo e Sandro Cabral
2016-2019 - Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo
Peer Review Process
The publishing process for articles submitted to O&S comprises five phases.
PHASE 1 - Preliminary Evaluation
Authors: Submission of an article according to the parameters required by the journal (Submission Preparation Checklist).
Executive manager: Evaluation of format (adequacy of the article to the required standardization and formatting rules) and plagiarism (use of similarity detection system).
Editor-in-chief: Preliminary evaluation (on desk) relate to the editorial policy (focus, scope and section policy) with decision to reject or forward to associate editor. Evaluation parameters: Is the article fully aligned with the journal’s focus and scope? Does the article represent a robust, relevant, well-developed, explicit, well-argued and grounded conceptual-theoretical contribution to the advancement of knowledge in its field of expertise? Does the article present a strong theoretical and methodological coherence? Is the article composed (writing, grammar, spelling, bibliographic references, etc.) according to all communication standards of excellence?
Associate editor: Preliminary evaluation (on desk) with decision of rejection or foward to anonymous reviewers (at least two experts) by the double-blind review system. Evaluation parameters: Does the article represent a robust, relevant, well-developed, explicit, well-argued and grounded conceptual-theoretical contribution to the advancement of knowledge in its field of expertise? Does the article present a strong theoretical and methodological coherence? Is the article composed (writing, grammar, spelling, bibliographic references, etc.) according to all communication standards of excellence?
PHASE 2 - Academic Evaluation and Review
Anonymous reviewers: Evaluation of the article (without information on its authorship) according to various parameters (theoretical-conceptual contribution, abstract, research goal, theoretical-epistemological foundation, research method, analysis, presentation and discussion of empirical and/or theoretical results, conclusion, references, language, structure and organization of the text) to make comments and suggestions for improvement.
Associate editor: Evaluation based on the evaluations of anonymous reviewers with a decision to reject or forward the evaluations to the authors to produce a revised version of the article.
Authors: Production of a revised version (all changes made to the text must be made using track changes), attaching a letter explaining and describing in the changes made.
Executive manager: Forwarding the revised version to anonymous reviewers, including all evaluations produced in the process, so that reviewers can learn about past evaluations made by other reviewers and by the associate editor.
Anonymous reviewers: Evaluation of the revised version, considering the past evaluations carried out by other reviewers and by the associate editor.
Associate editor: Evaluation of the revised version, considering the new and old evaluations produced by the reviewers, with a decision of (a) rejection, (b) forward to a new evaluation round (revision of the revised version) or (c) partial approval (forward to phase 3).
PHASE 3 - Layout Review
Authors: Layout of the final text (approved in phase 2) according to the journal’s visual model (Article model in Portuguese or Article model in English), including all information in the model such as funding, notes, conflict of interests, authors’ contributions, full name, biography, e-mail and ORCID, for each author, and acknowledgements (if necessary).
Proofreader: Linguistic and standardization revision, producing a standardized version of the article.
Authors: Review of the standardized version of the article.
Proofreader: Finalization of the standardized version of the article.
Executive manager: Partial approval of the article and forwarding to phase 4.
PHASE 4 - Production of a Version in a Complementary Language
Authors: Production of a version in a complementary language (English or Portuguese) of the article approved at the end of phase 3. This version must be formatted in the O&S layout (according to the O&S visual model - Model for articles in Portuguese or Model for articles in English) and certified in relation to its linguistic quality. Authors must follow one of these options:
OPTION A - Translation or proofreading by an O&S partner organization. The costs will be borne by the authors. Please forward to O&S the file with your article and the certification file (Language Quality Certificate) provided by the O&S partner organization.
OPTION B - Translation or proofreading by an organization that is not on the list of O&S partner organizations. The costs will be borne by the authors. Send the produced version to Caledonia English (krisgillespie@caledoniaenglish.com.br) and request a language quality certificate. The cost of this certification (RS$ 100.00) will be borne by the authors and must be dealt with directly between the authors and Caledonia English. If the article does not obtain the certificate from Caledonia English, it will be up to the authors to provide a better version until they are able to obtain the language quality certificate provided by Caledonia English. The costs of redoing translations or requesting recertification from Caledonia English will be borne by the authors.
Executive manager: Partial approval of the article and forwarding to phase 5.
PHASE 5 - Dissemination and Publication
Authors: Production of a video with a maximum duration of 60 seconds, that does not exceed 25 MB in size, within a maximum period of 30 days from the date of approval of the article in phase 4. The authors agree that the video will be used by O&S on its social networks to disseminate the articles published in the journal. In the video, one or more authors of the article should talk about its relevance and originality. The video should not explain the entire article but encourage people to take an interest in reading it.
Editor-in-chief: Final approval of the article for publication.
Executive manager: Inclusion of the article for publication in the next available issue of O&S, providing authors with a PDF version of the article with information on year, volume, number, pagination and DOI.
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