Bibliometric Analysis of the Links between Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage
Bibliometric Analysis of the Links between Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage

Author(s): Ion Popa, Ana Alexandra GORA
Subject(s): Management and complex organizations
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: bibliometric analysis; competitive advantage; knowledge management; VOSviewer
Summary/Abstract: Knowledge management and competitive advantage are two important topics in research world. The purpose of this article is to establish the connection between those two concepts in order to identify new research directions starting from the analysis of the literature. The research methodology involves a bibliometric analysis based on mapping and clustering of keywords. The paper presents the analysis of 1083 articles and reviews related to the topic of knowledge management and competitive advantage, published between 2000 and 2018 and indexed in the Scopus database. The main results underline how the number of papers in the topic analyzed evolved during the selected period, how these papers are geographically distributed, which are the most productive journals that published papers on the subject of knowledge management and competitive advantage, who are the authors with the most contributions in the subject, which are the most cited articles of the selected ones. Furthermore, the results present a mapping and clustering of keywords reported in the selected and analyzed papers, which allows the analysis of the links between them.

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