ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN THE SCOPUS DATABASE (1990-2023)

To remain competitive in high-sound environments, companies often need to act quickly. Through improvisation, organizations are able to create and generate new ideas to solve a given problem, in events that require immediate action, that is, improvisation is the conception planned in real time and the execution of a new response to a situation. that is beyond borders that a system has not prepared for. This article aims to provide an overview of the development of scientific publications on the topic of organizational improvisation, a research topic of growing interest for organization theory. From a methodological point of view, the work makes use of bibliometric analysis, being characterized as a quantitative, descriptive study, developed from an evaluation of bibliographic material. Scientific publications were verified from 1990 to 2023, using data collected in the Scopus ( Elsevier ) database. The selection of works was made based on a combination of English terms contained in the title, abstract and keywords of the publications. It is hoped that this study will be a basis and starting point for researchers on organizational issues who intend to get involved in this topic.