Análise bibliométrica da produção científica sobre administração estratégica com suporte de dados da web of science referentes ao período de 1945 a 2021

Abstract

Strategic management was formally constituted as a research field in the 1950s, being significantly researched by theorists since then. In order to make the set of scientific knowledge continuously generated understandable, bibliometric indexes were created, of which the Web of Science stands out for the antiquity and reliability of the cataloged information. Therefore, this research aims to understand the bibliometric profile of publications on Strategic Management cataloged in the Web of Science database from 1945 to 2021. For this, it presents a conceptual evolutionary history of Strategic Management for the decades; and, through bibliometrics, whose analysis is descriptive statistics, it displays the panorama of the area by analyzing the processes of citation and co-citation of publications, the qualification of the main authors, organizations (journals) and countries, the identification of patterns of collaboration between authors, the study of co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling existing in these publications, and the description of the occurrence of keywords. The sample generated from the Web of Science is delimited by the keywords "strategic" and "organization" in the articles of the SSCI and SCI-EXPANDED indexes, and by the categories "Management", "Business", "Operations Research Management Science" and "Economics". The analysis of the citation network draw attention to the publication of LEVINTHAL (1993), in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), the author K. M. Eisenhardt, the USA and the Stanford Univ institution. The analysis of the co-authorship network highlights the author D. J. Ketchen Jr., the Erasmus Univ institution, the USA as the country with the most co-authors and that the behavior of co authorship happens among more and less experienced researchers in the field of research. The analysis of the pairs bibliographic network highlights the publication REES (2010), the journal SMJ, the author S. Elbanna, the USA and the Erasmus Univ. The analysis of the co-occurrence network identifies that the main keywords for this network and KeyWords Plus (WOS) are Performance, Management and Innovation, and author keywords are Innovation, Performance and Organizational Change. The analysis of the cocitation network brings that BARNEY (1991) is the main citation of the cited references, SMJ journal is the main source of the cited works; and D. J. Teece is the main cited author of this network. It is concluded by the importance of the USA and SMJ magazine at the forefront of research in the area; the collaboration of Erasmus Univ. institutions (Netherlands) and Stanford Univ. (USA); the relevance of the authors K. M. Eisenhardt, D. J. Ketchen Jr. and D. J. Teece, and the association with the words Performance, Management and Innovation.