ANÁLISE DOS CONCEITOS DE PODER NOS ARTIGOS BRASILEIROS SOBRE REDES

The aim of the work is discusses the concepts of po wer in the articles on networks. The main assertive is that power is absent in the Brazilian papers and the reason lies in the cognitive paradigm of the researchers, who understand the net works just as systems of cooperation and trust; wherever power is seen as a negative variabl e. For discussion we present the classical authors’ arguments about the need to include the po wer in Administration’s studies, in contrast with the near absence of a subject bibliog raphy of Brazilians’ journals A2. The dominant concept is the ownership of resources, ina dequate to the networks’ phenomenon. It was founded networks articles about power, but usin g other words, like governance and asymmetry. Its necessary change the paradigm, becau se networks are complex, with uncertainty and unpredictability, witch conditions are associated with the presence of power. Its absence causes the bias of the exclusion of asy mmetries, negotiations and divergent interests; witches are characteristic of networks