Brazilian scientific production on organizational behaviour in the nonprofit sector

• Autor(a) principal: NASCIMENTO, Thainá Tavares do
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: BORGES-ANDRADE, Jairo Eduardo, PORTO, Juliana Barreiros
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/7925
• topic: Organizational behavior; Literature review; Nonprofit sector; Comportamento organizacional; Revisão de literatura; Terceiro setor

This paper presents a review of the Brazilian scientific production on organizational behaviour in the nonprofit sector. A pre-categorized data set from empirical studies on micro organizational behaviour, which were published between 1996 and 2012 in 15 Brazilian Psychology and Business journals, was used. Out of 629 articles on micro organizational behaviour, only 31 addressed nonprofit organizations. This finding suggests that this economic sector is still underrepresented. “Social interactions” is the most commonly studied topic in this sector, followed by “affect”. However, some topics relevant to research on nonprofit organizational behaviour have been insufficiently investigated in Brazil. These topics include “motivation” and “meaning of work”. It is important to acknowledge that the nonprofit sector includes unique organizational settings that should be taken into account for the development of the general theories about human behaviour in the workplace.