TEORIA DA ESTRUTURA DE PROPRIEDADE: REDES SOCIAIS EM PERIóDICOS INTERNACIONAIS DE ALTO IMPACTO

the goal of this study is to identify social networks in the theory of ownership structure in articles published in high impact international journals. sociometric research with empirical-analytical methodology was performed in a longitudinal perspective from desk research. the universe of the study is the international journals in the areas of administration and accounting classified with the index of high impact jcr (journal citation reports) by the isi web knowledge 2009 edition. the techniques of analysis used were bibliometrics and social network analysis, which compared the main characteristics of networks with focus on small worlds and degrees of centrality. it was concluded that these features show the consolidation of the topic as a permanent research field to researchers and contributes to the development of scientific literature on ownership structure, as it measures important aspects of its configuration at international level.