THE USE OF THEORIES IN BRAZILIAN ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

• Autor(a) principal: Mota, Flavio Perazzo Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Beck, Ceres Grehs, Pereira, Rita de Cássia de Faria, Lima, Tatiana Aguiar Porfírio de, Vale, Solange Cristina do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://raep.emnuvens.com.br/raep/article/view/139
• topic: organizational studies; theories; desk research; estudos organizacionais; teorias; levantamento bibliográfico

Theories in Brazilian Organizational Studies aim to systematically explain facts and events, allowing knowledge to be summarized and facilitating the preservation or modification of the understanding of organizational practices. The objective of this paper is to survey and analyze the theoretical foundations of scientific papers investigating organizational phenomena in order to identify whether or not theories are being used in Organizational Studies, as well as to analyze the adopted methodological aspects. This is achieved through the desk research of the one hundred and fifty academic articles submitted to EnANPAD, for the period 2005-2008. The subsequently identified data and theory is classified and analyzed, with results reporting that more than half of the studies analyzed (54.7%) used theories. The use of Institutional Theory (24.1%) is predominant, followed by Structuration Theory (7.8%), Theory of Social Representations (4.3%), Critical Theory (3.4%), Agency Theory (3.4%) and Transactions Cost Theory (3.4%). It is soon apparent that Brazil has yet to appear as a source of theories, that is, it is much more common to see the use of internationally consolidated theories than any actual theoretical innovation within the Brazilian context. Furthermore, co-authorship, qualitative research strategy and the empirical nature were identified.