DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INVOLVING SUSTAINABILITY IN BRAZIL: EVOLUTION AND FIELD STRUCTURE IN MANAGEMENT AREA

Abstract

This research aims to describe the historical evolution of the field of research in the area of administration and sustainability. As for the methodological procedures, the research is classified as exploratory, descriptive and quantitative, whose data were extracted from periodicals B1 and A2 in the Administration area. The analysis involved the complementarity of bibliometric and sociometric techniques. Concerning to results, a meaningful evolution about sustainability was noticed between 2000 and 2014; Through the law of Zipf,  demonstrated the dimensions of sustainability and the organizational theories used in the articles in each five years; It was possible to perceive that the relations have intensified to the point of suggesting the formation of a field, pointing to the possibility of consolidation of the national knowledge on the subject of sustainability in the Administration area was also related.