Editorial.

Autorde Farias, Salomao Alencar
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This issue of BAR features five articles in different fields of business administration. Readers will be in touch with theoretical, qualitative and quantitative approaches, demonstrating BAR's openness to different research perspectives.

The first article, "Value Added Elements According to Buyer Companies in a B2B Context", by Daniel Battaglia and colleagues, aims to analyze how buyer companies perceive the value added to products and service offered by their suppliers and identifies the predominant elements that affect purchasing decisions and establishment of relationships between companies in a B2B context.

The second article, "Organizational Commitment, Psychological Contract Fulfillment and Job Performance: A Longitudinal Quanti-Qualitative Study", by Leticia Gomes Maia and Antonio Virgilio Bittencourt Bastos, discusses the development of organizational commitment and explores the relations among psychological contract fulfillment, organizational commitment, and job performance. Authors found four trajectories of commitment development: learning to love, high match, honeymoon hangover and learning to hate.

The third article, "Leaderships in Urban Contexts of Diversity and Innovation: the Porto Maravilha Case", by Fatima Bayma de Oliveira, Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna, Daniela Martins Diniz and Antonio Moreira de Carvalho Neto, investigates the role and ways of action of leaderships in urban contexts characterized by urban revitalization processes (RJ/Brazil).

The fourth article, "Environmental Management, Strategic Practices and Praxis: a Study in Santa Catarina Industrial Companies", by Graziela Dias Alperstedt and Sergio Bulgacov, presents results from a study of 225 companies in Santa Catarina State. It is based on the theoretical foundations of environmental management and strategy as practice.

The fifth article, "Methodological Reflections on Practice-based Research in Organization Studies", by Marcelo de Souza Bispo, discusses methodological possibilities for empirical...

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