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Bibliometric analysis of absorptive capacity
Indri Dwi ApriliyantiIndri Dwi ApriliyantiIlan Alonsubject
MarketingBibliometric analysisbusiness.industryComputer science05 social sciencesResearch streamData scienceCo-citationCategorizationAbsorptive capacity0502 economics and businessOrganizational learning050211 marketingBusiness and International ManagementDynamic capabilitiesbusinessKnowledge transfer050203 business & managementFinancedescription
Abstract This study contributes to our understanding of absorptive capacity (AC) by reviewing AC articles systematically using two types of blibliometric co-citation analysis – bibliometric co-citation and bibliometric cartography – for the last 25 years. In total, we analyzed 336 articles (using HistCite ) and 2088 articles (using VOSviewer ), respectively, finding five research streams in AC: (1) intra-organizational learning; (2) inter-organizational learning; (3) knowledge transfer; (4) dynamic capability; and (5) micro-foundations. This integrative literature review of AC adds to the categorization of the literature, links the international business research to AC, and provides promising future research directions. Our study gives detailed information about the development of each research stream by measuring the number of publications in each stream over 25 years using bibliometric cartography analysis. Based on the literature, we propose 26 future research questions for these five research streams.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-01 | International Business Review |