Editorial Introduction

            This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & production (IJM&P) features a selection of articles submitted and revised until December 2018. Observe the works are the fruit of research and publications of undergraduate, postgraduate and entrepreneurs.

            It is important to mention that all the works are showed without any kind of payment. All of them are published free from payments or taxes.

            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 achieve a very decent job during the evaluation and revision. Moreover, that they have contributed to the Journal in recognition of the international scientific community.

            In addition, 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.

            On July 20, 2018, the journal was notified via E-mail of its indexing and abstracted in: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science - Thompson Reuters. With the availability of journal data on August 20, 2018.

            The Table 1 presents how our collaborators, by their categories of study and sex are.

Table 1: Distribution of users by degree

 

Dr.

Ph.D.

MSc.

Dr./Ph.D. Student

MSc. Student

Specia-

list

Profes-sors

Stu-dents

Others

Total

Male

1,035

255

240

59

34

23

56

103

1,805

Female

379

116

121

18

13

3

44

27

721

            From the data provided in Table 1 on the distribution users by titration, Figure 1 shows the percentage of each titration.

Figure 1: Distribution chart for degree

            In the period from January, 01 to March, 31 2019, the journal was accessed by approximately 13,620 users, of approximately 2,636 cities and 168 countries, in the Figure 2 is presented the map mundi, in which can be observed the countries of where was originating the access (GOOGLE, 2019).

Figure 2: Countries that have accessed the journal

            The Table 2 shows the preview data and journal access, since its creation in 2010.

Table 2: views by volume/number

Year

Country

Cities

Access

Users

Viewers

2010

25

75

340

181

5,474

2011

75

343

1,510

1,024

12,942

2012

83

444

2,187

1,406

15,499

2013

118

1,208

11,946

6,006

71,264

2014

146

1,978

17,440

10,503

68,340

2015

147

2,307

23,017

14,460

96,735

2016

162

2,911

26,654

17,847

112,928

2017

184

4,078

37,171

27,129

109,535

2018

190

5,220

57,157

44,400

187,729

2019

168

2,636

17,343

13,620

58,127

            In Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 is shown a graph of the amount of hits that the journal received between January 1, 2014 and Mach 31, 2019; these data are based on information provided by the Google analytics.

Figure 3: amount of hits between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 4 shows the comparison of the number of cities, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 4: Amount of cities between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 5 shows the averages of views on the journal in the period between the years of 2014 and 2016.

Figure 5: Amount of average between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 6 shows the comparison of the number of countries, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 6: Amount of countries between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 7 shows the comparison of the number of users, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 7: Amount of users between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 8 shows the comparison of the number of viewers, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 8: Amount of Viewers between 2013 and 2019

            Figure 9 shows the overall evolution accumulated in the 12 months, as well as the visualizations between the years of 2013 and 2018 and that can be compared with Figure 8.

Figure 9: Global evolution of views between 2013 and 2019

            Figure 10 shows the evolutionary chart of resolutions address the articles registered in Crossref since 2014, which is based on monthly report. This graph can be seen the evolution of the journal has achieved.

Figure 10: Resolution Report for prefix 10.14807 from between 2014 and 2019

            Figure 11 shows the graph of daily views averages during the 12 months between 2014 and 2019, which allows to observe the constant growth of the Journal.

Figure 11: Average day views

            We appreciate the intense participation of all colleagues, which has made our journal become a place of wide dissemination of knowledge.

            The following content will be presented with the titles, authors and the pages of all of the articles published in this edition issue.

EDITORIAL VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 (615-622)

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.706

 

 

 

HOW KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MEDIATES THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF TALENT MANAGEMENT IN ENHANCING CUSTOMER'S SATISFACTION (334-354)

Zeyad Faisal Al-Azzam, Atif Badri Al-Qura'an

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.854

 

THE SELECTION OF CONTRACT STRATEGIES USING THE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS FOR OIL AND GAS PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY (355-379)

Vinicius Maia de Jesus, Luiz Flavio Autran Monteiro Gomes, Fernando Filardi

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.850

 

THE ROLE OF LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION TO REDUCE FOOD LOSSES AND IMPROVE REGIONAL ECONOMY (380-396)

João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis, João Roberto Maiellaro, Fernando Juabre Muçouçah, Oduvaldo Vendrametto, Robson dos Santos

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.861

 

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACCEPTANCE TREATMENT ON THE REDUCTION OF DEPRESSION AMONG THE DISABLED (397-410)

Abbas Ramazani, Behzad Akbari Doorbash, Naghi Kamali, Elham Yusefi

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.661

IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF "BLACK SWANS" IN TECHNOLOGICAL EVENTS IN BRAZIL (411-439)

Moacyr Machado Cardoso Junior

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.866

 

MODIFIED SIGNOMIAL GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING (MSGP) AND ITS APPLICATIONS (440-458)

Wasim Akram Mandal, Sahidul Islam

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.853

 

ARE ACADEMIC STUDIES RELIABLE IN BRAZIL? FINANCIAL VARIABLES IN AN INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENT (459-474)

Luciana Maia Campos Machado, William Eid

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.851

 

QUALITY PARAMETRES ON HIGHER EDUCATION PHD PROGRAM IN ROMANIA (475-488)

Rocsana B. Manea Tonis, Natalia Manea

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.855

 

IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN PRACTICES IN BANKS: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (489-498)

Zeeshan Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Ahmad, Sehrish Butt

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.862

 

IBRAHIM'S TRIANGLE MODEL (SATISFACTION - BENEFIT - LOYALTY) FOR SYSTEMS SUCCESS MEASUREMENT (499-511)

Ibrahim Eskandar Ibrahim Fadhel, Syed Zulkarnain Bin Syed Idrus, Amani Ali Elmetwaly Ali Ibrahim, Mazni Omar

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.867

 

ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF CEMENT INDUSTRY MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN TEHRAN STOCK EXCHANGE USING THE FAHP TECHNIQUE AND THE TOPSIS METHOD (512-536)

Sahar Omrani, Mostafa Jafari, Ali Mansori  

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.859

 

VOLATILITY BEHAVIOR OF VIRTUAL CURRENCIES (537-547)

Jéssica Gonçalves Andrade, Nilson Brandalise

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.852

 

ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF BUYERS' BARGAINING POWER ON KENYAN SMALL FOOD MANUFACTURERS' INCOME (548-573)

Francis Okumu Omillo

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.846

 

STUDY OF TIMES AND MOVEMENTS IN THE SERVICE SECTOR: AN ANALYSIS IN A BEAUTY SALON (574-595)

Jéssica Danielle de Carvalho Nunes, Ana Maria Magalhães Correia, Priscila Gonçalves Vasconcelos Sampaio, Alexandre Henrique Soares de Oliveira, Armistrong Martins da Silva

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.842

 

RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF FIRM'S INNOVATION - DRIVEN ON NEW PRODUCT INNOVATION PERFORMANCE (596-614)

Yan Qu, Chun-Shuo Chen

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i2.847

 

 

April 1, 2019

 

 

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor