Digital Transformation in Operations Management: a Bibliometric-Based Systematic Review

Abstract

Digital transformation undoubtedly has important implications on the discipline of Operations Management. To unveil these effects and interpret the future research directions requires an in-depth review and analysis of the scientific literature on this research area. This study uses a two-stage approach including Systematic Literature Review and bibliometric analysis to draw a broad perspective on the relationship between DT and OM, reveal the thematic evolution of this research area, and inference about potential future research directions. The scope of the analysis includes the articles drawn from the Web of Science and Scopus databases published between 2007 and 2021 in this research area. With the descriptive analysis of 3021 selected articles to the research sample, top articles, authors, countries, journals, and keywords in this research field were determined. Following the descriptive analysis of the data, the co-occurrence analysis of keywords, thematic evolution, and thematic map analysis was conducted using RStudio and VOSviewer.. All bibliometric analyzes were performed using the R Bibliometrix package.