Editorial Introduction

            This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & production (IJM&P) features a selection of articles submitted and revised until October 2013. Observed that works are the fruit of research and publications of undergraduate, postgraduate and entrepreneurs.

            The publication also counts on the work of researchers from various parts of the world, which have undergone a process of peer review.

            As chief editor of IJM&P, I am indebted to all members of the editorial board and reviewers, which contributed to achieving a very decent job during the evaluation and revision. And that has contributed to the Journal in recognition of the international scientific community.

            And with all the authors, who trusted the results of their research and publications to the scrutiny of editors and reviewers who are part of our Journal.

            In the second half of 2013, we had good news about the journal and we are sharing some of them here. For example, we received the following impact factors year 2012:

·        Universal Impact Factor {UIF}       0,4285             2012

·        Research Bible                                  0,42                 2012

·        Global Impact Factor (GIF)             0,512               2012

            Here is a list of reviewers who evaluated papers for the Journal between 2010 and 2013.

 

 

 

Title

Name

Country

Msc.

Abel Anibal Del Río

CO

Dr.

Adeyemi Oluseyi Ewetade

NG

Prof. Ph.D.

Adriana Burlea Schiopoiu

RO

Ph.D. Student

Aline Marian Callegaro

BR

Msc.

Alvaro Luiz Neuenfeldt Júnior

BR

Dr.

Amarildo Da Cruz Fernandes

BR

Dr.

Amran Awang

MY

Msc.

Ana Maria Magalhães Correia

BR

Msc.

Anderson Catapan

BR

Dr.

Andre Luis Korzenowski

BR

Doctoral Candidate

Andre Vilares Morgado

PT

Mr

Andreas Hagen

SE

Dr.

Andreas Dittmar Weise

BR

Doctoral Student

Andréia De Abreu

BR

Dr.

Antonio Silva

BR

Dr.

Bassam Edmond Badran

SY

Prof. Msc.

Carlos Antonio Pizarro Louzada

BR

Ph.D.

Carmen Martins Marques

PT

Prof. Msc.

David Custódio De Sena

BR

Msc.

Diego Pacheco

BR

Msc.

Ernani Da Cunha Ferreira

BR

Dn.

Euro Marques Júnior

BR

Msc.

Everton Drohomeretski

BR

Dr.

Fabrizio Baldassarre

IT

Prof. Dr.

Fernando Celso Campos

BR

Prof. LD.

Fernando Augusto Silva Marins

BR

Dr.

Florian Ion Petrescu

RO

Dr.

Francisco José Santos Milreu

BR

Dn.

Gerson Rossi Dos Santos

BR

Dna.

Geslaine Frimaio Silva

BR

Ph.D. Candidate

Gordon Monday Bubou

NG

MP.

Graciela Dias Coelho Jones

BR

Prof. Ph.D. Wg. Cdr.

Gulshan Kumar Bajwa

IN

Mr.

Gustavo Henrique Silva De Souza

BR

Mr.

Harlan D. Whatley

CN

Msc.

Hector Ricardo Formento

AR

Prof. Dr.

Heitor Luiz Murat De Meirelles Quintella

BR

Dr.

Hemant Bamoriya

IN

Dr.

Henrique Martins Rocha

BR

Profa. Dra.

Ieda Kanashiro Makiya

BR

Ph.D.

Irene Samanta

GR

MA.

Jamal Mohammed

GH

Dr.

Jimmy Francisco Barangay

PH

Dr.

João Carlos Colmenero

BR

Ph.D.

Joao Correia Leitao

PT

Ph.D.

Joel Kimeli Cherus

KE

Prof. Dr.

Jose Paulo Fusco

BR

Dr.

José Barrozo De Souza

BR

Dr.

Jose Alberto Carvalho Dos Santos Claro

BR

Doctoral Candidate

Joshin John

IN

Dr.

Juanjo Boté

ES

MBA.

Kaveh Hasani

IR

Dr.

Kent R Acheson

US

Dr.

Kirti Dutta

IN

Dr.

Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta

TH

Ph.D.

Liviu Drugus

RO

Prof. Dr.

Luiz Flavio Autran Monteiro Gomes

BR

Dr.

Manuj Darbari

IN

Mn.

Mara Regina Dos Santos Barcelos

BR

Dr.

Marcelo Battesini

BR

Prof. Dr.

Marcelo Luiz Gabriel

BR

Dra.

Marcilene Dianin Vianna

BR

Dr.

Marcos Cerqueira Lima

FR

Msc.

Maria Creuza Borges Araújo

BR

Dsc.

Maria Augusta Soares Machado

BR

Prof. LL.B.

Michael Llorénz

US

Md.

Mihaela Stet

RO

Msc.

Minelle Enéas Silva

BR

Msc.

Moises Andrade Coelho

BR

Prof. Dr.

Nilgun Tosun

TR

Dr.

Osvaldo L. Gonçalves Quelhas

BR

Dr.

Ozgur Dogerlioglu

TR

Msc.

Paola Schmitt Figueiró

BR

Dra.

Patricia Guarnieri

BR

Dr.

Patrick Jaska

US

Dr. Student

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

BR

Dr.

Paulo Afonso Lopes Da Silva

BR

Dr.

Pedro Carlos Resende Jr.

BR

Dr.

Pedro Paulo  Andrade Júnior

BR

Dna.

Raffaela Leane Zenni Tanure

BR

MBA.

Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav

IN

MBA.

Raj Kumar Bhattarai

NP

Ph.D. Student

Raquel Marrafon Nicolosi

ES

Prof. Me.

Ricardo Mânica

BR

Dr.

Ricardo Moreira Da Silva

BR

Dr.

Robin V. Watkins

US

Dn.

Rodolfo Reinaldo Hermes Petter

BR

Dra.

Sabrina Nunes Vieira

BR

Mr.

Sandeep Bhattacharjee

IN

Dna.

Sandra Miranda Neves

BR

Dra.

Sandra Rufino

BR

Ph.D.

Sanjay Sharma

IN

Msc.

Sereen Ibrahim Abu Aisheh

PS

Msc.

Silvia Cristiane Marangoni

BR

Dr. Student

Sivanilza Teixeira Machado

BR

Ms

Stella Nnedinma Ayika

NG

Ph.D.

Tamer Mohamed Khalaf

SA

Dra.

Tatiana Aparecida Rosa Da Silva

BR

Ph.D.

Tatyana Valentinovna Bobra

UA

Dr.

Tony Crespo Franco

ES

Dr.

Trellany V. Thomas-Evans

US

Msc.

Ursula Gomes Rosa Maruyama

BR

Dr.

Valdecy Pereira

BR

Prof. Dn.

Victor Freitas De Azeredo Barros

PT

Ph.D.

Vinicius Amorim Sobreiro Sobreiro

BR

Prof., Dr.

Vladimir Evgen'evitch Bakhrushin

UA

Dr.

Wagner Cezar Lucato

BR

Ph.D. Candidate

Wilda Georgine Smith

US

Dna.

Zaida Cristiane Dos Reis

BR

 

IS THE BRAZILIAN REAL A COMMODITY CURRENCY? LARGE SAMPLE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

(001-024)

Filipe Monteiro de Castro Albert, Paolo Edoardo Coti-Zelati, Davi Lucas Arruda de Araújo

 

DEVELOPMENT OF METHODOLOGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PLANNING - MISP

(025-044)

João Alberto Neves S., Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares, João Thiago Machado dos Santos, Christian da Silva Dunga

 

TOWARDS AN INVESTIGATION ON THE DETERMINANTS FOR EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF REVERSE LOGISTICS SYSTEMS (RLS) (045-064)

Francisco Gaudêncio Mendonça Freires

 

 

THE COMBINED USE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WITH FACILITY MANAGEMENT AS AN OPTION FOR INTELLIGENT BUILDING (065-082)

Andreas Dittmar Weise, Charles Albino Schultz, Andréa Cristina Trierweiller, Rudimar Antunes da Rocha, Blênio Cesar Severo Peixe

 

ECONOMIC TRADE-OFFS AMONGST PRODUCTION DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES IN BRAZILIAN COFFEE COOPERATIVES (083-105)

Fellipe Silva Martins, Wagner Cezar Lucato

 

A DYNAMIC SPREADSHEET MODEL FOR DETERMINING THE PORTFOLIO FRONTIER FOR BSE30 STOCKS (106-120)

Dr. Anupam Mitra, Mr. Punneet Khanna

 

TRENDS AND ALTERNATIVES FOR PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION TOWARDS TO A NEW SYSTEM’S DYNAMIC (121-141)

Minelle Enéas da Silva, Paola Schmitt Figueiró, Marcio Luis Miron Jappe, Luis Felipe Nascimento

 

USE OF EXCEL WORKSHEETS WITH USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE IN BATCH PROCESS (PSBP) TO MINIMIZE THE MAKESPAN (142-165)

Rony Peterson da Rocha, Fabrício Wesley da Rocha, Mauro Antônio S. S. Ravagnani, Paulo Roberto Paraíso, Cid Marcos Gonçalves Andrade

 

CAM GEARS DYNAMICS IN THE CLASSIC DISTRIBUTION (166-185)

Florian Ion Petrescu, Relly Victoria Petrescu

 

PARADIGM: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCES OF THE POMS FROM 2000 TO 2010 (186-201)

João Almeida Santos, José Antonio Massaroppe, Jose Alberto Carvalho dos Santos Claro

 

IDENTIFICATION OF EXTERNAL CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS (202-213)

Abdolreza Gholamali, Dariush Abbasi, Sima Sarafi Zanjani

 

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC): A CONTROL TOOL AGAINST WASTE OF INPUTS IN BRAZILIAN DAIRY (214-226)

Tiago Henrique de Paula Alvarenga, Ademir José de Abreu, Cassiano Moro Piekarski, Juliana Vitória Messias Bittencourt, Eloiza Aparecida Silva Ávila de Matos

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPANY AND INCUBATOR FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (227-247)

Ana Paula Ferreira Alves, Gabriele Volkmer, Tania Nunes da Silva

 

 

AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR  SELECTIVE COLLECTION MADE BY SCAVENGERS FOR TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS (248-263)

Adelino Carlos Maccarini, Gilson Adamckzuk Oliveira, Naiá Mendes Maccarini, João Bosco Ladislau de Andrade

 

IDENTIFICATION OF ADULTERANT AND ALCOHOL ROUTE IN BIODIESEL USING MID-INFRARED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (264-274)

Maryleide Ventura da Silva, Sandro Marcio Lima, Luis Humberto da Cunha

Andrade, Euclésio Simionatto, Márcio da Silva Figueiredo

January 1, 2014

 

Prof. Dn. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor