“…Among the articles first selected, only those that had predominantly qualitative empirical research as their objective were All the articles selected were initially analyzed according to their contexts, making it possible to identify the period of publication, the journals that published the greater part of the material, as well as the institutions that had the highest output on the subject. Then, based on the outline of previous research on administration published in Brazil (Bertero, Caldas, & Wood, 1999;Bertero, Vasconcelos, & Binder, 2003;Calixto, 2009;Gondim et al, 2005;Hocayen-da-Silva, Rossoni, & Ferreira, 2008;Pacheco, 2003;Tonelli, Caldas, Lacombe, & Tinoco, 2003;Vergara & Peci, 2003), the following general analysis criteria were used: (a) number of case studies investigated; (b) selection strategy used in each case; (c) temporal cut-off; (d) level of governmental research on the subject; (e) data gathering technique; (f) data analysis technique; and (g) theoretical basis.…”