Strategy in focus: two decades of scientific production of the 3Es event in the light of social network analysis

ABSTRACT This study investigated the profile and features of the scientific production disclosed in Event 3Es during the Editions from 2003 to 2017.Bibliometric techniques and predominantly sociometric techniques were used, focusing on networks of 1 and 2 modes, in 929 identified studies. In the one-mode networks, sparse networks and high degree and intermediation centrality were found in the two decades investigated. The institutions' social network highlighted USP and FGV (SP). With regard to co-authorship networks, in light of the centralities of degree and intermediation in the two decades of study at 3Es, the researchers Carlos Ricardo Rossetto, Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva and Manuel Portugal Ferreira stood out. Regarding the two-mode network that focuses on the authors and themes together in this work, we glimpse the themes with the greatest number of authors linked to them, that is, scholars who sought to publish on these subjects during the two decades of the event research. The themes were: resource-based view, strategy formulation, inter and organizational networks, organizational performance, internationalization, entrepreneurship and innovation.