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2022๋ 1์ 5์ผ | 5๋ถ ์ฝ๊ธฐ
์ ์: Stelvia Matos
"The most satisfying moment is when you press the โacceptโ button"
Name:ย Stelvia Matos Institution:ย Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK Journal:ย Technovation Role: Editor-in-Chief
Iโve always enjoyed discussing how and why things happen, which basically are the fundamental questions that frame research. With regards to my specific research on social exclusion and sustainability, I was motivated by my experiences growing up in one of the poorest regions in Brazil, where I observed peopleโs daily struggles for survival and their attempts to carve out a better life for their families.
Initially I thought my technical training in engineering could provide solutions for sustainability challenges, which are now framed asย the Sustainable Development Goalsย (SDGs). However, I soon realized that technical solutions are not enough for successful innovation โ there are also commercial, organizational and societal implications that must be understood. My research in innovation and entrepreneurship is thus an attempt to utilize inter-disciplinary insights to address real-world problems, particularly in marginalized regions.
As a faculty member at theย Surrey Business School, I divide my time between research, teaching, administration and theย Technovationย co-editorship. I am also Head of the Centre for Social Innovation Management, a problem-driven inter-disciplinary research centre looking at societal grand challenges such as climate change, social exclusion, digital innovation, business ethics, sustainable supply chains and global health issues. Like the journal editorship, the Centre allows me to connect with great academics from different disciplines.
Business schools have specific performance measures to evaluate academic success, including the number of publications in top management journals (of which there are many rankings), citations, journal editorships, awarded grants, etc. Additionally, I find it very rewarding when students enjoy discussing my research in the classroom or when managers and people from a variety of organizations show interest in my research. Running these โreality checksโ acts as a measure of whether my work is connected to those that I intend to inform.
On a personal note, perhaps the most enjoyable โreality checkโ is when I try to explain my work over dinner with my kids in such a way that I can capture their interest and stimulate a conversation. The whole point of sustainable development is about protecting future generations, so if I canโt explain the importance of my research to them, whatโs the point?
Choose a research topic that you find interesting, meaningful and which addresses real world problems. Doing research is hard work, requires resilience, perseverance, and patience. Given the high rejection rates of most journals, you also need a thick skin. Iโve always been a strong advocate of problem-driven research, which can lead to great theory building and contribute to management practice, as long as importance and rigor are present.
Having published a few times inย Technovation,ย I was familiar with the journalโs influence in the field of technology and innovation management. I was also aware of the significant improvements by the previous editor, Jonathan Linton. I was thus delighted to join the editorial team and contribute towards disseminating high quality research through the journal.
Since the pandemic, many journals have had a significant increase in submissions, with some calling it โthe age of big literatureโ. However, people seem to have less time to review or dedicate adequate time to do it carefully. Editing can be rewarding by, for example, having the opportunity to be one of the first to read a study that may have a significant impact. Such โthatโs interestingโ moments are intellectually very stimulating. Of course, the most satisfying moment is when you press the โacceptโ button, as you know it will help peoplesโ careers.
In my view, a good editor makes serious effort to put the paper โin the right room of conversationโ, which begins by selecting the right reviewers. We want to avoid reviewers rejecting a promising paper for not โseeingโ relevant issues because it is unfamiliar to them, which may happen if the paper is theoretically or methodologically outside the reviewerโs comfort zone. However, we also want to make sure that reviewers do not reject papers that deal with issues that are too obvious to them but would likely be novel to most of our readership.
Time!
Probably running a beach restaurant in the northeast of Brazil.
Our field of research doesnโt naturally use photographs and images. However, we are noticing a gradual increase in creative ways of communicating and disseminating research in general, through for example images, figure or videos. We are encouraging authors to consider creating abstract figures that capture the interest of the reader, if they think it will be worth "a thousand words".
SM