Agribusiness and theorectical and epistemic perspectives: an analisys in the graduate programs in business

Abstract

Theobjective was to identify the theoretical-methodological and epistemological approaches employed in the dissertation and theses developed between 2005 and 2015, in Posgraduate Programs in Administration with lines of research in agribusiness in Brazil. Specifically, the article sought to characterize theories, methodologies and themes used to elaborate these researches based on the previous study of both Reed (1999) and Paula (2016). For this, the study has a qualitative approach, of exploratory objective, and as an approach technique, it is characterized as bibliographical and documentary. The resultshowed a large number of dissertations that had an approach based on the market metanarrative, framed in the empirical-analytic matrix from the circle of epistemic matrices; the main methodological approach is qualitative, with exploratory purpose; the most discussed theme is development, involving sustainable, local, rural, regional and economic development. It is concluded that the theme, the theoretical approaches and the opening of new Posgraduate Programs in this line of research are consistent with the current stage of growth of the country's agribusiness.