Operations and Supply Chain Management in Brazil: Where Do We Come from and Where are We Going?

Abstract

This paper aims to understand how the Operations and Supply Chain Management field of research progressed in the last decade in Brazil, highlighting major research topics and methods adopted. We analyzed articles of researchers affiliated with Brazilian universities in the leading national and international journals between 2010 and 2019. Moreover, we compared those results with the findings of Paiva and Brito (2013), carried out for the previous decade, and with the publications in the Journal of Operations Management [JOM], the worldwide leading journal in the field. Our results suggest growing diversity in research topics and methods adopted by Brazilian researchers in the last decade and a lower concentration in the most traditional ones, reflecting a greater maturity of the field in Brazil. Also, the results suggest differences when we compared with the JOM publications, which brought new methods, such as secondary data, experiments, and multimethod, and topics, such as risk management and humanitarian supply chains. Our research indicates possible trends in research topics and methods identified at national and international events, especially on new technologies and new research contexts.