DO CAMPO DE SISTEMAS DE INFORMAÇÃO NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO DE SEUS ASPECTOS TEÓRICOS, METODOLÓGICOS E EPISTEMOLÓGICOS

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate the state of art of Information Systems (IS) field in Brazil by analyzing papers published at Enanpad (2010-2018), concerning its theoretical, methodological and epistemological aspects. Therefore a documental, qualitative-quantitative research was done on 28 papers from Academic Division of Information Management (IM – theme 7, changing in 2018 to IM – theme 6) at Enanpad (2010-2018). In outcomes terms, a variety of theoretical perspectives are being applied to IS field in Brazil. Methodologically, there was a predominance of empirical papers (78,57%); a predominance of qualitative approaches (50%) and research strategies focused in five types: essays (21,43%), bibliometric studies (17,85%), survey (10,71%), systematic review + bibliometric (10,71%).and multiple case studies (7,14%). Finally, in epistemological terms, positivist paradigm has a significant presence (60,70%) among national papers studied, which may still show some reluctance in using interpretative methods in IS, like dialetic hermeneutical method, or Myers (1995) critical hermeneutics (CH), or even still, critical discourse analysis based on Habermas (CUKIER et. al., 2009).