The purpose of this study is to identify the evolution of the intellectual structure of strategic management studies and to propose a theory of an invisible network of knowledge. By analyzing 303,402 citations of 4,616 articles published in SCI and SSCI journals in the strategic management field from year 2003 to year 2012, this study maps the intellectual structure of strategic management studies. This article dwells upon the wide spreading social tags of website applications. By so called "crowd wisdom", the tag cloud analysis reveals the preliminary investigation from a social network viewpoint, provides researchers with profiles of strategic management related subjects and theories, and sheds light on future directions of studies. The contribution of this study is to provide important insights and implications of current and future research paradigms for both management scholars and practitioners.
Abstract-The purpose of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of strategic management and to investigate the key concepts, themes, and their relationships wuth strategic management literature in the past decade. In this study, bibliometric and social network analysis techniques are used to investigate the intellectual pillars of the strategic management literature. By analyzing 303,402 citations of 4,616 articles published in SSCI journal in strategic management area between 2 0 0 3 and 2012. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of strategic management research and provide a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this area.
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