About the Journal
RAUSP Management Journal publishes original research that provides significant theoretical contributions and practical insights across diverse management-related disciplines within the international management community.
RAUSP Management Journal is a continuous publication of the Management Department of the School of Economics, Management and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP). The journal publishes articles by Brazilian and international authors selected through a double-blind peer review process, based on criteria of originality, methodological rigor, theoretical contribution, relevance, quality, and contribution to the advancement of Management knowledge.
Editor-in-Chief
- Leandro dos Santos Maciel
School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil - Rafaela Almeida Cordeiro
School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), São Paulo, Brazil
The journal covers all fields of management, including:
- Business ethics;
- Consumer behavior and marketing;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Finance and accounting;
- Human resources and organizational behavior;
- Operations and supply chain management;
- Public management;
- Strategic management;
- Sustainability in management;
- Technology and innovation management.
RAUSP Management Journal is an open-access journal. All works are published under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which means that all content is available free of charge to users or their institutions. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or the author.
Submit to the journal
When submitting a manuscript, authors will be taken to a service called Paperpal Preflight, an AI-driven tool that checks manuscripts against the journal's author guidelines. Authors are free to use or bypass this step and submit directly to ScholarOne.
Submissions to RAUSP Management Journal are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rausp. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://mchelp.manuscriptcentral.com/gethelpnow.
From January 1, 2026, original manuscripts must be submitted exclusively in English.
RAUSP Management Journal adopts a continuous publication model, with articles published online after completion of the editorial evaluation and production processes. Please visit the RAUSP homepage (https://rausp.usp.br/)
Any manuscript that has been rejected by RAUSP Management Journal may not be revised and resubmitted without an invitation from the editors.
Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts
- Please log on to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rausp
- Click on "Create Account"
- Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding
- Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers
- Click "Finish" and your account will have been created.
- Please log on to RAUSP at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rausp with your username and password. This will take you through to the welcome page (to consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the homepage link in the "Resources" column)
- Click on the "Author Centre" button
- Click on the "Submit a manuscript" link which will take you through to the manuscript submission page
- Submitting authors are required to confirm the contributions of all authors to the paper at the 'Author Contribution- CRediT Taxonomy' stage
- Complete all fields and browse to "Upload your article"
- When all required sections are completed, preview your PDF proof
- Submit your manuscript.
Authors submitting papers for publication should specify which section of the journal they wish their paper to be considered for: "Research Papers" or "Viewpoints", etc. The editors and publisher will do everything possible to ensure that the manuscripts are dealt with promptly and that those which are accepted are quickly published.
Review process
Each paper submitted is reviewed by at least two external reviewers and the editors to assess its suitability to the journal. All manuscripts which format does not follow the guidelines indicated below will be rejected without further consideration.
Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication with another journal. Please see Emerald's originality guidelines for details. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty.
The editor may make use of iThenticate software for checking the originality of submissions received.
This is an open access journal. All works are published under Creative Commons CC-BY license which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
View the license in more detail.
Author responsibilities
Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication process. There are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:
- Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.
- Be accountable for all aspects of your work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions about accuracy or research integrity
- Treat communications between you and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.
- Read about our research ethics for authorship. These state that you must:
Include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).
Exclude anyone who hasn’t contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.
In accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools, Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work.
- If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.
Policy on AI Usage
Overarching principles of AI usage:
- Authors and peer reviewers are responsible and accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their work.&
- AI tools and technology must be used responsibly and transparently.
- AI tools and technology should not replace human involvement in the publication process but instead supplement it.
Copywriting (creating, drafting, or writing) any part of a submission using generative AI tools and technology to generate new material is not permitted.
Copy-editing (correcting, editing, formatting, modifying, or refining) all or part of an author’s own original existing work using generative AI tools and technology the content to improve its structure and the clarity of the language and grammar is permitted, ensuring users adhere to the following overarching principles.
Emerald’s full policy, including examples of use cases can be found on our Publishing Ethics page.
Third party copyright permissions
Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not been created by them.
Failure to do so may lead to lengthy delays in publication. Emerald is unable to publish any article which has permissions pending. The rights Emerald requires are:
- Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.
- Print and electronic rights.
- Worldwide English language rights.
- To use the material for the life of the work (i.e. there should be no time restrictions on the re-use of material e.g. a one-year licence).
When reproducing tables, figures or excerpts (of more than 250 words) from another source, it is expected that:
- Authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their manuscript.
- Permission must also be cleared for any minor adaptations of any work not created by them.
- If an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright holder of the original work.
- Authors obtain any proof of consent statements.
- Authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions and refer to the source in the reference list.
- Authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek permission for re-use.
Informed consent
If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Emerald supports the development of, and practical application of consistent ethical standards throughout the scholarly publishing community. All Emerald’s journals and editors are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which provides advice on all aspects of publication ethics. Emerald follows the Committee’s flowcharts in cases of research and publication misconduct, enabling journals to adhere to the highest ethical standards in publishing. Read more information on Emerald’s publication ethics policy.
Copyright forms
Upon acceptance of an article authors will be requested to sign a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Publishing under a CC BY 4.0 license means:
- Copyright in the article is retained by the author.
- The author grants Emerald a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Your article can be shared freely, including copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format.
- Your article can be adapted, remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- Full attribution to the original work must be included in any derivatives, indicating if/where changes have been made.
Authors will be asked to complete the CC BY 4.0 licence through ScholarOne. All authors are sent an e-mail with links to the licence form, which they must check for accuracy and submit electronically.
Author fees
The journal is published under a Diamond Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by University of São Paulo. This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.
Final submission
The author must ensure that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the available Article Submission Checklist. Proofs will be e-mailed prior to publication.
Archiving policy
RAUSP Management Journal, under the stewardship of Emerald Publishing, provides perpetual access to all e-journal and book content and works with the digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS, and CLOCKSS. Read more information about Emerald’s archiving policy.
References
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Core Practices and Guidelines for Journal Editors. Available at: https://publicationethics.org/
Emerald Publishing. Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines.
Indexed in
- ABCD USP – Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais da USP
- Cabells
- Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS)
- Dare Databank UNESCO – SHS/DC
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- Google Scholar
- IBBA – Índice Brasileiro de Bibliografia de Administração
- Inspec
- Latindex
- ProQuest (Various databases)
- REDALYC – Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina
- SciELO
- Scopus
- Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL)
- SUMÁRIOS – Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras
- ULRICHSWEB – Global Serials Directory
- WorldCat
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Sources of Support
Background: The first issue of Revista de Administração was published in March of 1947. In 1967, it was suspended, but publication was resumed in1977. It has since been published uninterruptedly.
RAUSP Management Journal is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of Universidade de São Paulo.
RAUSP Management Journal is owned by Universidade de São Paulo.
For further information, please visit the RAUSP Management Journal website: https://rausp.usp.br/
