[...]this series’ third and last piece dealt with problems and criticism on research impact (Sandes-Guimarães & Hourneaux Junior, 2021). [...]the discussion on defining, identifying and measuring Research impact in management has intensely increased lately. According to Macht, Chapman and Fitzgerald (2020), the number of publications about the SDGs in management journals has been multiplying since their launch the year before, which we can consider positive from this editorial’s perspective. Recently, Chapman, Cully, Kosiol, Macht, Chapman, Fitzgerald and Gertsen (2020, p. 1030) also emphasised the use of SDGs to measure what they called “real-world Research Impact”. [...]regarding universities, they are present in the discussions on education at all levels and had been turned into the criteria for evaluating higher education institutions, as proposed by the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking (THE University -IRs, 2019, 2020).
Editorial: The research impact in management through the UN’s sustainable development goals