Ecologia organizacional: um estudo bibliométrico em publicações nacionais

Abstract

In recent years, the new organizational context of environmental complexity has stimulated different thoughts that fit into an organization/environment relationship. Among them, an ecological theory emerges, developed by Hannan and Freeman (1977), who bring the ecological model of adaptation and survival to the reality of the organizations. In this context, the objective of this research is to identify the state of the art of scientific production on Organizational Ecology. Regarding methodological aspects, this research has quantitative nature; as for the means, it is characterized as bibliometric; as for the ends, it is descriptive and exploratory research. This bibliometric study, conducted by research based various academic database, resulted in: most of the authors come from the institutions of the central-south and southeastern regions of Brazil; as thematic approaches the research related to the concepts of organizational ecology, survival, adaptation and competitiveness; the authors most cited are Aldrich and Pfeffer (1976), Cunha (1999), Hannan and Freeman (1977), Morgan (1996) and Di Maggio and Powell (1983); the methodology used by the authors are, for the most part, qualitative by nature, documental, bibliographic and experimental and for the means and descriptive and explanatory of the ends; the conclusions presented in the articles analyzed were, in general, that organizational ecology theory help managers better improve than organizational environment mutations and how organizations can act to keep up with changes and maintain competitiveness to survive in the market where they work.