Abordagens sobre folga organizacional nas pesquisas publicadas em periódicos internacionais: um ensaio teórico APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK IN RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: A THEORETICAL ESSAY

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 é 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 vários autores através de publica es científicas. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar as abordagens sobre folga organizacional no contexto das pesquisas publicadas em periódicos científicos internacionais. Para tal, foi realizado um ensaio teórico considerando publica es em ambito internacional, tendo como referência 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 três níveis de análise: indústria, 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 estratégia 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