Methods for the Construction of A Management Discipline: An Applied Approach in Brazil

Knowledge of the history of a management discipline is of great importance for the understanding of its evolution and its current state. The importance of structuring historical methods related to the Brazilian context relies on the fact that there is a mismatch between what happened in developed countries, literature reference used in most school, and in Brazil, a country that recently gained worldwide prominence, but that is still poorly understood. This study adopted a qualitative approach and the analysis of academic documents. It is shown that most studies do not demonstrate clearly the use of methods for the historical building.