Food and Beverage Management: Indicators for a New Field of Studies in Brazil

Abstract

Since December, 2015, CAPES has been considering the proposal to open a new course in Professional Master in Business Administration with a focus on Food and Beverage Management. Although this research field (Food and Beverage Management) is already consolidated abroad, in Brazil it is formally unprecedented. This study aimed to identify, through bibliographic research on EBSCO and Food and Beverage Management Commons databases, food and beverage study areas in the field of business administration. This research also aims to identify and quantify the maount of studies by the area. The proposal is to organize the sub-areas of business administration which framed, longitudinally, research in the food and beverage industry by systematic categorization of the studies. After analyzing title, abstract, keywords, introduction and method of 1138 papers, we obtained a final sample of 368 studies in areas of management in food and beverage. The results have identified 18 areas of business administration in which there is research on food and beverage. The results also have quantified the number of publications and demonstrated, over time, from the 1960s, the progress and turns of the studies on food and beverage in each decade. This paper has contributed to map business areas and provide indicators for scientific production. The study also contributes to point out future research.