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Analysis of scientific production on interorganizational networks study field

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  • The theme of interorganizational networks gained prominence in the 1970s, with studies by economists and sociologists based on the analysis of the relationship between companies and the formation of strategic business networks (Powell and Smith-Doerr, 1994)

  • Social implications – The study contributed to updating the research profile, mainly after the triennium 2013-2015 of Qualis Capes’ evaluations

  • It added to the mapping of recent Brazilian academic production related to interorganizational networks, completing studies by Alves et al (2013), Andrighi et al (2011), Balestrin et al (2010), Cunha and Carrieri (2003) and Mascena et al (2013)

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The theme of interorganizational networks gained prominence in the 1970s, with studies by economists and sociologists based on the analysis of the relationship between companies and the formation of strategic business networks (Powell and Smith-Doerr, 1994). After the titles and abstracts were read, the papers that were unaligned to the research theme were excluded – it was considered to be misaligned to the research theme a study that, using the term “alliance”, “cluster”, “network” or “partnership”, did not do so in the sense of arrangements formed voluntarily by several agents, with strategic relevance for those involved, aiming at obtaining or maintaining competitive advantages in the long term with consistency between objectives and business purposes After performing these procedures, 77 articles were selected to participate in the study, coming from eight different journals. The IGRAPH 0.5.5-2 extension (package) was used to analyze graphs and co-authorship networks

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