This article investigates the research decision-making process of Brazilian academic communities, focusing especially on the reaction to CAPES's requirements. Firstly, we revisit the Brazilian academy scenario before CAPES' new rules. Secondly, we explore the researchers' reaction upon the new institutional frame. Thirdly, we generate several propositions on the decision-process underneath such behavior, which are contrasted against the insights collected throughout interviews with Brazilian and American researchers. We expose the range of strategies the Brazilian institutions elaborated in order to cope with the new rules. In addition, we explore the interviewees' perspectives on the research in Brazil. Finally, we suggest that although CAPES has played a key-role in establishing a discipline to the academic field in Brazil, the academic community should raise the discussion on CAPES' role and institutional structure in long-term. The community should review CAPES' functions, in tandem with the higher maturity of the academy, and its interaction with the whole community.
CAPES; teaching in Management; academic research; Management; education
