A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends on Organizational Learning and Organizational Innovation: Future Research and Agenda

Abstract

Organizational learning and innovation research has received increasing attention from researchers in recent years because it is important for improving performance and increasing competitive advantage, in addition to playing a vital role in helping organizations embrace change, respond to emerging challenges, and seize new opportunities. However, the research subject's development as well as directions in this study field are limited and unclear. Therefore, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of a sample of 773 research articles published over the past 41 years, from March 1982 to March 2023, to explore research directions about organizational learning and innovation through the top contributing and productive Sources, institutions, and countries, the analysis of collaboration networks between authors, and keywords' co-occurrence analysis in three specified periods. Publication output data was determined based on research articles in the Scopus database. The results of the analysis of this study showed that the number of publications related to organizational learning and innovation has witnessed a continuous increase, around 18.85% per year. The United States ranked first in the field of organizational learning and innovation, contributing 21.86% of the total publications. In addition, the " "Universidad de Granada" has been ranked first in terms of overall publication output (16 publications, 2.07%). The focus of researchers in this field expanded during the three phases to include different and new topics. The obtained results of this paper may help academics and practitioners better understand research development trends, and research hotspots in the field of organizational learning and innovation, and provide a comprehensive view of future research.