Editorial Introduction

            This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & production (IJM&P) features a selection of articles submitted and revised until March 2016. 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.

            Since 2015 we are promoting the dissemination of articles published on LinkedIn Pulse, through Chief Editor account of Professor Dr. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues.

In April 2016, our journal has been indexed by RedALyC and now our goal is to increase the visibility and seek indexing in Scopus and Web of Science.


            The first table presents how our collaborators, by their categories of study and sex are.

 

Dr.

Ph.D.

MSc.

Dr./Ph.D. Student

MSc. Student

Specia-

list

Profes-sors

Stu-dents

Others

Total

Male

805

208

191

45

28

23

24

92

1,417

Female

285

97

101

14

8

2

19

25

551

Table 1: Distribution of users by degree

            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 May, 31 2016, the journal was accessed by approximately 9,215 users, of approximately 1,667 cities and 140 countries, in the Figure 2 is presented the map mundi, in which can be observed the countries of where was originating the access (GOOGLE, 2015).

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

146

1,774

10,148

7,069

47,567

            In Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 is shown a graph of the amount of hits that the journal received between January 1 2014 and May 31 2016; these data are based on information provided by the Google analytics.

Figure 3: amount of hits between 2014 and 2016

            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 2016

            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 2016

            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 2016

            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 2016

            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 2016

            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 7, ISSUE 2 (I-IX)

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues, Carlos Antonio Pizarro Louzada

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.339

 

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF BRAND EQUITY OF A COMMERCIAL BANK IN VADODARA, INDIA (289-302)

Ashutosh Anil Sandhe

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.404

 

NONPERFORMING LOANS PORTFOLIO AND ITS EFFECT ON BANK PROFITABILITY IN NIGERIA (303-319)

John N. N. Ugoani

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.406

 

RAISING BRAND AWARENEES THROUGH INTERNET MARKETING TOOLS (320-339)

Margarita Išoraitė

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.391

 

INVESTIGATING THE BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ECONOMIC RECESSION: A QUALITATIVE APPROACH (340-366)

Irene Samanta

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.401

 

MACD - ANALYSIS OF WEAKNESSES OF THE MOST POWERFUL TECHNICAL ANALYSIS TOOL (367-379)

Sanel Halilbegovic

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.415

 

UNLIMITED, BLURRED LIMITS IN A BORDERLESS WORLD (380-412)

Leandro Adolfo Viltard

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.417

 

OPTIMIZATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND CIRCULARITY DEVIATION AND SELECTION OF DIFFERENT ALLUMINIUM ALLOYS DURING DRILLING FOR AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE INDUSTRY (413-430)

Reddy Sreenivasulu, Chalamalasetti SrinivasaRao

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.414

 

DROUGHTS IN THE TIETÊ-PARANÁ WATERWAY: IMPACTS ON THE DIRECT, INDIRECT AND HIDDEN COSTS IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF SOYBEAN. (431-444)

Rodrigo Carlo Toloi, Moacir Freitas Junior, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis, Oduvaldo Vendrametto, Pedro Luiz Oliveira Costa Neto

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.418

 

ACTIVE DRIVERS OF ADOPTION OF INTERNET BANKING (445-464)

Pankaj Yadav

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.403

 

 

THE NEED FOR A CHANGE IN THE PARADIGM OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INNOVATIVE SPIN-OFFS AND TECHNOLOGY-BASED SPIN-OFFS (465-487)

Enara Zarrabeitia, Patxi Ruiz de Arbulo, Pablo Diaz de Basurto

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.410

 

PROPOSITION FACTOR MODEL OF WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING IN BRAZILIAN ENTERPRISES (488-502)

Paulo Sergio Gonçalves de Oliveira, Dirceu da Silva, Luciano Ferreira da Silva, Maria Cristina Tecilla, Meire dos Santos Lopes

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.336

 

OPEN INNOVATION PROJECT: THE SYSTEM OF ONLINE INDICATORS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION OF AMAZONAS (SiON) (503-525)

Moises Andrade Coelho

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.408

 

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF THE DISPLACEMENTS OF A CONCRETE DAM WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS (526-545)

Sheila Regina Oro, Anselmo Chaves Neto, Tereza Rachel Mafioleti, Suellen Ribeiro Pardo Garcia, Cláudio Neumann Júnior

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.413

 

EDUCATION CORRUPTION AND TEACHER ABSENTEEISM IN NIGERIA (546-566)

John N. N. Ugoani

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.428

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN NETWORKS (567-583)

Evgeniy Rudnev

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.384

 

June 1, 2016

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor

 

Prof. MSc. Carlos Antonio Pizarro Louzada

Section Editor