Uma Revisão Crítica da Pesquisa Qualitativa em Gestão Territorial: Panorama da Produção Brasileira em Administração (2006-2015)

Abstract

The present paper deals with the Brazilian scientific production of the area of Administration and that uses qualitative approaches of investigation, in the field here denominated by territorial management. We present a documentary, bibliometric and critical review research that analyzed this production, based on the following criteria: paradigmatic orientation; Place occupied by theory in research design; Tradition of research used; Types of data present; Forms of analysis developed; And quality criteria adopted. The analysis was delimited in the last decade of publications (2006-2015), in the form of articles in Brazilian journals, in the strata of higher evaluation of the Qualis/Capes System, in the Administration area. The findings indicate the predominance of constructivist methodological perspectives and that employ theoretical resources as an aid to analysis, without placing the latter in theoretically preconceived models. There is a high concentration of research strategies in the case studies and prevalence of content analysis in data analysis, which predominantly originate from documents and interviews. In this field, the incorporation of quality criteria into qualitative research is reduced, and in many studies the explicit use of any of them is not identified and in almost 40% it is not clarified about the analytical path taken in relation to the material analysed. In the end, this paper discusses possible implications of these aspects on the process of knowledge production in territorial management – especially considering the field configuration in terms of the nature of the investigated phenomena – and makes some considerations regarding the improvement and expansion of the research developed.

Keywords

• qualitative research
• territorial management
• bibliometric analysis
• critical review