Reflections end perspectives concerning the construction of knowledge about indoor entrepreneurship

Abstract

This study searches to bring out the scientific production in the specialized events in Brazil concerning the meaning of indoor entrepreneurship in the field of business administration from 1997 to 2007, intending to identify the construction of knowledge and the emerging perspectives in researches about this focus on the field. Aiming at complementing, it also searched to identify the characteristics of the indoor entrepreneur’s behavior, in the mentioned and selected scientific production. The principles of meta-analysis of content were used. Among the main results, it is observed, as reflections needed in the field, the necessity to clarify the elements that distinguish corporative entrepreneurs from the intra entrepreneurs in the organizations. As future perspectives of investigation, there is a vast field to explore in theoretical and empirical terms the singularities of the manifestation in contemporary organizations of indoor entrepreneurship in Brazil in a comparative perspective.