PERFIL DA PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA BRASILEIRA SOBRE BALANCED SCORECARD.

This study aims to present and analyze the profile of scientific publications on the system performance evaluation Balanced Scorecard (BSC) available in the database SciELO Brazil and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). This is a quantitative study and its development were carried out literature searches and bibliometric analysis. Through this research identified the objectives of the studies, how much work available in the databases, the institutional affiliation of authors, year of publication or defense of this work, as well as the methodology used by researchers and the scientific production of each State. Specifically in the database of SciELO Brazil was still possible to identify the authors and the journals that published the articles. The study revealed, among other things, that the publications on the BSC, demonstrate a wide variety of purposes and that researchers tend to use the philosophy of the Balanced Scorecard not only for-profit companies, but also in public administration and business third sector and the agricultural industry. Studies on the BSC in Brazil began in 2000. Two authors per article is the combination that is repeated in most publications in the SciELO Brazil. The geographic location states that contributed the most were: Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]