Um estudo bibliométrico das publicações nacionais sobre as micro e pequenas empresas na base de dados da Spell a partir de 2010 a 2020

Abstract

Bibliometrics consists of carrying out studies concerning the quantitative characteristics of intellectual production, diffusion, dissemination, socialization and use of the data disseminated and recorded, so bibliometrics is a basis for making observations that, if possible, makes evaluation and evolution of a certain area of scientific knowledge, the studies carried out refer to micro and small companies in order to demonstrate the relevance of these companies. The present work has as general objective to carry out a bibliometric study of national publications on micro and small companies in Spell's database as of 2010. For that, it was listed as specific objectives of this research: I) to identify the main authors who more published on the theme of micro and small companies; II) identify the main journals of the articles that were published; III) present a historical evolution in the number of publications; IV) to identify the frequency of keywords present in the analyzed articles; and V) identify the main themes addressed in the studies. For this, the work was developed having a descriptive nature and a qualitative approach, which consists of a bibliometric study. To carry out the data analysis, bibliometrics laws were used as support, which are Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law and Zipf's Law. In the present work, we sought to carry out a bibliometric survey in order to analyze the scientific production that took place over the course of 10 years between 2010 and 2020, considering works that report on the topic of Micro and Small Enterprises, and for this it considered around 393 articles to compose the sample. Carrying out the present work, it is remarkable how relevant the existence of micro and small companies is, and they are responsible for employing several people, in addition to being considered as a way that individuals find to have greater financial freedom and autonomy, or it can even be seen as a form of solution for those who are unemployed and without a source of income.