A produção científica brasileira em cooperação empresarial

ABSTRACTThis article aims to analyze the academic production in the area of business cooperation in articles published in major Brazilian periods available in the base of scielo. The research employs the bibliometric technique to scientific work in the period 2001 to 2010. The study is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with quantitative treatment of bibliographic data and performed by means of citation analysis, using keywords, methods employed, the formation of the authors and the creation of a list of the 14 most cited authors and their works. The results show that the production on this theme is low due to the identification of only 18 articles and 770 bibliographic references in the period studied. This indicates that the majority of authors published only one article in this period about cooperation. The results achieved with this search assist researchers in the field to the increase of knowledge in cooperation