scholarly journals Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hallinger ◽  
Suparak Suriyankietkaew
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Size Growth ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Successful Change ◽  
Emerging Topics

The rise of sustainable development as a field of applied research has been observed across a wide range of disciplines. Successful change towards sustainability in organizations and societies requires leadership to provide a vision, set direction, and motivate people to move towards new goals. Thus, sustainable leadership is emerging as a new domain of study within the field of management. This review of research employed science mapping tools to examine 952 Scopus-indexed documents explicitly concerned with sustainable leadership. The goals of the review were to document the size, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of this literature, identify key journals, authors, and documents, analyze the intellectual structure of this knowledge base, and highlight emerging topics. The review documented a modest-sized knowledge base of recent vintage, concentrated in Western developed societies but global in scope. Six Schools of Thought were identified within this knowledge base, one of which—Sustainable Leadership—was singled out for attention. As the first bibliometric review of research on sustainable leadership, this review provides a reference for scholars entering this domain, as well as guidance with respect to high value frameworks, foci for future research, and practical implications.

Science mapping: a bibliometric analysis of female entrepreneurship studies

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Deng ◽  
Qiaozhuan Liang ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Female Entrepreneurship ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This bibliometric review aims to display visually the intellectual communities (i.e. the cooperation networks among various countries, institutions, journals and individuals), the intellectual structure (i.e. the status quo and development trajectory of the intellectual base) and emerging hot topics of the female entrepreneurship research in 1975–2018. Based on the comprehensive review of the state-of-the-science, this paper aims to identify significant research gaps in extant studies and develop potential future research agendas that may catalyse new streams of female entrepreneurship research. Design/methodology/approach Bibliometric analysis via science mapping provides in-depth analyzes, highlights the intellectual structure and identifies hot topics. Using CiteSpace, co-citation networks of contributing countries, institutions, cited journals and authors are mapped first. Second, co-citation network analysis helps to identify the key “nodes” in the intellectual structure. The landscape view identifies main clusters from an overall perspective, while a timeline view delineates the characteristics and evolution of focal clusters. Major clusters are interpreted in detail with the help of foam tree graph processed by Carrot. Finally, the co-occurrence network analysis is conducted by using VOSviewer to examine hot topics and research frontiers Findings The findings show that the publications of female entrepreneurship increase exponentially. The major driving force of female entrepreneurship research is from the USA and England. In terms of intellectual structure, key concepts behind different clusters represent the major milestones in relation to individual determinants of female entrepreneurship, the impact of cultural and contextual factors on female entrepreneurship and female entrepreneurship in non-OECD countries, as well as the impact of family, social and institutional factors on the survival and exit of male and female enterprises. Hot topics include financing sources, the embeddedness nature, the impact and environmental factors of female entrepreneurship. Practical implications This study presents important practical implications. The findings suggest that intellectual communities of the female entrepreneurship field are relatively loose. Close contact and cooperation among different countries, institutions and researchers are lacking. To promote the evolution of the field, researchers who belong to different institutions in different countries may need to strengthen contact and cooperation. Additionally, papers in journals from the business and management discipline are most cited in this field, preventing new knowledge from other disciplines flowing into the female entrepreneurship field. Accordingly, female entrepreneurship research journals may need to expand their focus and combine knowledge from various domains. Originality/value This bibliometric review provides a more comprehensive, systematic and objective review of the female entrepreneurship field. Previous qualitative reviews are typically based on personal judgement, while a few quantitative reviews only describe statistical data. This study is based on thousands of citation data rather than a small number of papers pre-selected by the researcher, thus, is more data-grounded and less biased than prior reviews. It expands previous reviews by transparently visualizing the underlying structure and evolution of the field. Moreover, it highlights significant gaps in extant studies and develops future research agendas to catalyse new streams of research.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Review of the Knowledge Base for Innovation in Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Vatananan-Thesenvitz ◽  
Amaury-Alexandre Schaller ◽  
Randall Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Development Literature

This review explores the rising research field of sustainable development in combination with innovation. The basis to reach sustainable development is innovation, which plays a role on all dimensions, be it economically, socially, or environmentally. In this review, science mapping techniques were employed in order to asses 1690 journal articles extracted from the SCOPUS database concerned with innovation in sustainable development (ISD). The main objective of the review is to reveal the size, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of the ISD literature. Furthermore, the aim is to assess the key publishing journals, authors, and documents as well as to uncover the intellectual structure and topical foci of the research domain. The review acknowledges a reasonable body of knowledge spanning nearly three decades. A result of this review is that the sustainable development literature emerged from the environmental research field and that the topical foci of the domain is closely aligned with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations. This review is a first attempt to systematically analyze the literature on innovation in sustainable development (ISD) by applying science mapping techniques such as bibliometric analysis. It shall give guidance for future research and demonstrate the practical implications.

The Evolution of Simulation-Based Learning Across the Disciplines, 1965–2018: A Science Map of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hallinger ◽  
Ray Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Education Medical ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Emerging Topics

Background. Simulation-based learning (SBL) has been applied and studied in educational settings for at least six decades. While numerous reviews of research have been conducted from different perspectives, none to date have used bibliometric methods to analyze the evolution of simulation-based learning as a ‘knowledge base’. Aim. The review sought to document the growth and geographic distribution of research on SBL. In addition, the review aimed to identify key authors and documents, and analyze the intellectual structure of this knowledge base. Finally, the review highlighted emerging topics in this literature. Method. The authors identified 2,812 Scopus-indexed SBL documents published between 1965 and 2018. Bibliographic data were exported from Scopus and analyzed using VOSviewer software. Analyses included descriptive statistics, citation and co-citation analysis, and keyword co-occurrence analysis. Results. The review found a rapidly increasing publication trajectory with 90% of the literature published since 2000. Although SBL studies have been authored in 94 different countries, the literature is concentrated in Anglo-American-European societies. The review found that the intellectual structure of this knowledge base is comprised of four schools of thought encompassing research on SBL in management education, medical education, technology-enhanced SBL, and learning theories in SBL. Another notable finding was that SBL researchers in medical and management education have progressed on parallel tracks leading to the balkanization on knowledge. Surprisingly, the conceptual core of the field is located in the school of thought associated with learning theories in SBL. This implies that SBL is a subfield of education rather than a discipline in and of itself. Emerging topics that have attracted scholars writing on SBL in recent years are identified and implications for future research discussed.

scholarly journals Science Mapping the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Human Resource Management, 1982–2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Kainzbauer ◽  
Parisa Rungruang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
New Research

The increasing interest in sustainability has led to the emergence of a new research focus in the field of human resource management (HRM). HRM scholars have recently begun to explore how HRM might contribute to sustainable outcomes and coined the term ‘sustainable human resource management’(S-HRM). In this bibliometric review, science mapping tools were used to examine 475 Scopus-indexed documents on S-HRM. The objectives of the review were to analyze the size, evolution, and regional distribution of this knowledge base, identify key journals, documents, as well as authors, examine the intellectual structure of this literature, and highlight topical trends. The review revealed a knowledge base that is still in the emergent phase, with a global scope but a concentration in Western developed societies. Four Schools of Thought emerged within this field. This review hopes to guide a new generation of S-HRM scholars by providing an overview of the current status of the knowledge base.

scholarly journals Science Mapping of the Global Knowledge Base on Microfinance: Influential Authors and Documents, 1989–2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Zaby
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
The Impact

The use of microfinance in poverty alleviation and, by extension, as an instrument for sustainable social and economic development, represents a novel idea in sustainable finance. This study employed science mapping to examine 4049 Scopus-indexed documents explicitly concerned with microfinance. The goals of the review were to document the distribution of microfinance literature by type, volume, time, and geography, and to identify influential authors, articles, and a potential intellectual structure of this knowledge base. The first microfinance research was conducted in 1989, but the field attracted increased attention only after 2006, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus. This study does not find any single dominant school of thought in the field of microfinance, but rather identified three thematic research clusters: (1) a concentration on institutional aspects of microfinance, (2) scholars who used sophisticated research methods to evaluate the impact of microfinance, and (3) groundbreaking microfinance literature related to social justice more generally. As the first-ever, comprehensive bibliometric review of research on microfinance, this study provides benchmarks against which to assess the future evolution of this literature, a reference for scholars entering this domain, and targets for future development of this field of sustainability scholarship.

Intellectual landscape of research on change management: a bibliometric analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Visal Moosa ◽  
Abdul Hafeez Khalid ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Change Leadership ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Human Aspects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Industry

Purpose This study aims to illustrate an overarching picture of the knowledge base on change management, including contributing authors, institutions and countries. The study also aims to elicit the intellectual structure of the knowledge base using science mapping. Design/methodology/approach The authors engaged 1,457 published documents, generated from a SCOPUS search, to analyse research conducted in the area of change management. Bibliometric indicators such as authors, institutions and countries were used in the analysis. Additionally, science mapping analyses such as keyword co-occurrence and co-citation were also performed using VOSviewer. Findings The findings indicated that scholarly work in the field of change management is on the rise. Furthermore, while the contribution from different regions of the world was observed, the most impactful scholarly works came from the West and Asia. Finally, it was found that research on change management could be classified into four schools of thought; engineering and information and communication technology (ICT) industry, organisational aspects of change, leadership aspects of change and human aspects of change. Originality/value This study contributes to the knowledge base on change management by creating an intellectual landscape of the existing research. The results demonstrated that the existing literature on the topic forms four broad clusters of knowledge and that the ICT industry is the current epicentre of research in this area. These findings could benefit researchers, as well as practitioners in streamlining their actions towards the most relevant and critical areas on the topic of change management.

scholarly journals Science Mapping the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Tourism Development, 1990–2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanin Yoopetch ◽  
Suthep Nimsai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Size Growth ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Business Practitioners

Robust literature on sustainable tourism development has emerged globally both in economically developed and emerging economies. Over the past several decades, policymakers and business practitioners increasingly acknowledge that the long-term development and sustainability of tourism destinations require clear guidelines and direction. The impetus for sustainable tourism development has become ever more urgent as a result of dual trends of climate change and massification of the global tourism industry. The current research review used science mapping techniques to examine 1596 Scopus-indexed documents published on sustainable tourism development. The objectives of the review were to document the size, growth, and global distribution of this literature, identify its key journals, authors, and documents, highlight emerging topics, and illuminate the underlying intellectual structure of this literature. The review also provides guidelines for scholars to develop research that can aid in future sustainable tourism development.

Science mapping the knowledge base in educational leadership and management: A longitudinal bibliometric analysis, 1960 to 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hallinger ◽  
Jasna Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Leadership For Learning ◽  
1960S And 1970S

This review employed science mapping methods to analyze the evolution of the knowledge base in educational leadership and management from 1960 to 2018. Descriptive trend analysis, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and visualization of similarities were used to document growth and change in the ‘intellectual structure’ of the educational leadership and management knowledge base as it evolved through the decades. The review analyzed a database comprised of 22,492 articles published in 21 Scopus-indexed journals over six decades. The authors found that contributions to the knowledge base have evolved from primarily Anglo-American male scholars up until 2000 to increasing gender and geographic diversity in the past 20 years. The review identified several ‘schools of thought’ that emerged across four generations of EDLM scholarship. These include: Leadership for Learning, Leading Change, Leading Teachers, and School Effectiveness and School Improvement. The review also documented a broader evolution in the field’s intellectual structure from a focus on ‘administration’ during the 1960s and 1970s to the embrace of ‘leadership for learning’ as the dominant theme during recent generations. This paradigm shift has not only reshaped the focus of research but also the identity of educational leadership and management as a field of study.

scholarly journals Already grown-up or still in puberty? A bibliometric review of 16 years of data governance research

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Marvin Jagals ◽  
Erik Karger ◽  
Frederik Ahlemann
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Corporate Networks ◽  
Real Time Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Opening Up

The amount of data and the speed at which it increases grows rapidly. Companies and public institutions try to manage this increasing flood of data effectively and in a manner that adds value. Besides, the companies and public institutions also join corporate networks or platforms to increase their value by sharing their data. The evolution of traditional business intelligence into business analytics, including real-time analysis, increases the high demand for qualitative data. Data governance tries to create a framework to manage these issues. This interdisciplinary research field has now been in existence for nearly two decades. With this contribution, we attempt to provide the research field with a blueprint. This paper aims to explore the past to understand the present and shape the future of data governance. We give an overview of how the research field changed from 2005 to 2020, commenting on its development and pointing out future research paths based on our findings. We, therefore, conducted a bibliometric analysis to describe the research field’s bibliometric and intellectual structure. The findings show that for years the research field concentrated on a few topics, which currently undergoes change and has led to an opening up of the research field. Finally, the results are discussed and future research strands are highlighted

scholarly journals Twenty-five years of the Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ): Intellectual structure mapping and bibliometric review

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Shahzad Imran Ahmed ◽  
Alserhan Atallah Fahed ◽  
Farrukh Muhammad ◽  
Yasmin Nilufar ◽  
Lee Jason Wai Chow
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Structure Mapping ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Management Journal ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Productive Authors

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), this study presents a general overview on the publication structure of the journal from 1996 to 2019. The study identifies the most productive authors, universities, and countries mainly using the Scopus database. It also enlists the most cited documents of the journal. Besides, the study graphically maps the intellectual structure based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence of authors’ keywords. The findings show the prominent Asian profile of the journal where most of the contributions come from the Asian countries and the universities. Specifically, authors from Malaysia and India remain the most frequent contributors. These findings provide readers of AAMJ with an objective overview of the trends of the journal. The study may be useful for future contributors as it provides inputs for the future research agenda.

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