%0 Journal Article %T Abordagens sobre folga organizacional nas pesquisas publicadas em peri車dicos internacionais: um ensaio te車rico APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK IN RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: A THEORETICAL ESSAY %A Tiza Tamiozzo Quintas %A Ilse Maria Beuren %J Revista de Administraˋˋo da UFSM %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Maria %X The term organizational slack is sometimes recognized as the excess resources in an organization. Since this term does not have a clear definition, it has accumulated over the years concepts of various authors through scientific publications. This study aims to examine the approaches to organizational slack in the context of research papers published in international scientific journals. To do so, a theoretical essay was performed based on international publications making reference to the term organizational slack. The antecedents of organizational slack, a total of 43 papers were analyzed according to the classification proposed by Sharfman et al. (1988), three levels of analysis: industry, organization and interest groups. The study results show that research on organizational slack have varied and evolving concepts and that the approaches to innovation and strategy are key points for research related to the topic, as they were the most found in the literature. However, the measurement of these types of resources slack is still an obscure point in the research developed. The studies of Cyert and March (1963), Bourgeois III (1981), Sharfman et al. (1988), Gulati and Nohria (1996) are branching out to other aspects of the organization. Though, it was concluded that research on definition of organizational slack and its relations with organizational environment aspects are evolving and signal further wider discussion in international scientific journals. O termo folga organizacional 谷 reconhecido, algumas vezes, como o excesso de recursos empregados em uma organiza o. Como esse termo n o tem uma defini o propriamente dita, vem, ao longo dos anos, agregando conceitos de v芍rios autores atrav谷s de publica es cient赤ficas. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar as abordagens sobre folga organizacional no contexto das pesquisas publicadas em peri車dicos cient赤ficos internacionais. Para tal, foi realizado um ensaio te車rico considerando publica es em ambito internacional, tendo como refer那ncia o termo folga organizacional. Os antecedentes de folga organizacional, num total de 43 artigos identificados, foram analisados segundo a classifica o proposta por Sharfman et al. (1988), em tr那s n赤veis de an芍lise: ind迆stria, organiza o e grupos de interesse. Os resultados do estudo mostram que as pesquisas sobre folga organizacional apresentam conceitos diversos e evolutivos e que as abordagens sobre inova o e estrat谷gia s o pontos-chave para as pesquisas relacionadas ao tema, pois foram as mais encontradas na literatura. Por outro lado, a mensura o desses tipos de %U http://cascavel.ufsm.br/revistas/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/reaufsm/article/view/2068