Redes de empresas e gestão da cadeia produtiva: perfil de pesquisadores e pesquisas

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the profile of researchers and research that focused on enterprise networks and management of the supply chain. To achieve the objective it analyzed the publications of the area in Production Engineering Symposium (SIMPEP) between 2007 and 2013. The study is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, qualitative and quantitative and bibliographic. Data was collected in the Congressional record in the Lattes Curriculum of researchers, and in the content of the articles. The analysis was carried out through content analysis and using the software UNICET®6. The data collection was 192 articles written by 568 authors, only 16 written individually. As for the results of the search, there was a predominance of males, 66.90%, and researchers holding Doctorate and Masters degrees, with 36% and 34.38%, respectively. The preference of the authors is to establish partnerships with colleagues from the same institution, as we see in 91.06% of cases, and in teams of up to three people, with 76.56% occurrences. Brazilian public institutions represent almost 90% of cases. The USP and the UFSCAR were the most represented, and the State of São Paulo too. The author who published the most articles was Cleber Carvalho de Castro with eight articles, and it was also him who was present in the most editions. Methodologically, there was a preponderance of qualitative articles, with 69%, and of case studies, 86%. The most commonly used keyword was Arrangement (s) Production (s) location (s), with 31 occurrences.