The intellectual structure of research in industrial agglomerations: a study in the ABEPRO scope

Abstract

The importance of studies in productive clusters and / or business is growing view of the importance that this strategy has gained as an alternative form of competitiveness. From this, were produced publications, research and knowledge on various aspects of discipline. Thus, it is interesting to evaluate the intellectual framework that the scientific community has reached this area of study and the direction it took. From this perspective, the research objective was to explore in the articles related to the subject ABEPRO productive agglomerations in the period 2005 to 2009, detailing the analysis in the years 2008 and 2009. To this end, we developed an exploratory study, literature, predominantly quantitative with qualitative nuances in the journals of the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (ABEPRO), in the annals of the National Meeting of Industrial Engineering (ENEGEP) and in the  annals of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management(ICIEOM). The main findings indicate that the intellectual structure of research productive agglomerations not offer theoretical and methodological consolidated. The analysis of ABEPRO 2008-2009 provides evidence for the maturation of new research on productive agglomerations.