Referências teóricas em análise organizacional: um estudo das nacionalidades dos autores referenciados na literatura brasileira

The main goal of this paper is to go on with the research started by Vergara and Carvalho Jr. (1995), which studied the nationality of the authors cited in brazilian organizational literature. It looks at the time gap between 1994 and 1998, shows the data concerning this period, and compares these data with those got by the earlier research. As that research investigated the 1989-1993 period, all together these two researches analyse an entire decade. There has been analised 292 articles and 6,812 citations. The sources were the proceedings of ENANPAD, RAE, RAP and RAUSP. The study concludes that American references have been the ones more used. The authors believe that one need to drive all efforts to elucidate some shadows areas that still lay over the motivations, conditions and constraints of those in charge to create an organization theory closer to our local questions. Such an effort will allow us check how developed is this arena in Brazil and, thus, this paper may be seen as a first step in this direction.