Aug 2026· SN Business & Economics· Vol 6· 0 citations· 59 references
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This review maps the intellectual structure of digital commerce during a global crisis and identifies opportunities for future research to enhance resilience and adaptability in digital ecosystems.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a profound catalyst for digital transformation, radically reshaping business models, consumer behavior, and organizational strategies globally. This study employs a bibliometric approach, analyzing 527 publications from the Scopus database to examine how digital business research evolved during this period. Various tools including R software, VOS viewer software, and Publish or Perish are utilized. The aim is to portray the knowledge map, explore the publication years, identify the top authors and their co-occurrence, reliable documents, institutions, subjects, research hotspots, and pioneering countries and universities in the study of digital business. Results indicate consistent annual growth in publication output, accompanied by a decline in average citations per article. This pattern may reflect the “dilution effect” commonly observed in rapidly expanding fields; however, the absence of a pre-pandemic baseline warrants cautious interpretation of this trend. International collaboration proved robust, with strong co-authorship networks led by the United States and China. Thematic analysis identified core research clusters around e-commerce, consumer behavior, supply chain resilience, and digital marketing, underpinned by highly cited studies on pandemic-driven behavioral shifts and technological adaptation. Co-citation analysis revealed four foundational clusters: direct economic impacts, statistical methodologies, digital transformation, and policy responses. Despite these advances, significant research gaps remain, including the long-term implications of digital transformation for business models, the use of advanced analytical methods to study crisis-driven consumer behavior, and comparative policy analyses extending beyond the Chinese context. This review maps the intellectual structure of digital commerce during a global crisis and identifies opportunities for future research to enhance resilience and adaptability in digital ecosystems.
Digital culture has become a central organizational phenomenon shaping how firms navigate digital transformation, emerging technologies, and sustainability pressures, yet prior research remains fragmented across disciplines and contexts. This study provides the first large-scale bibliometric mapping of digital culture research from an organizational perspective. Using the Scopus database, we analyzed 212 publications published between 2008 and 2025. Bibliometric techniques and VOSviewer were applied to examine (i) annual publication trends, (ii) thematic structures through keyword co-occurrence networks, (iii) influential knowledge producers across authors, affiliations, and countries, and (iv) document type distribution to infer field maturity. The results show a clear acceleration after 2020, culminating in more than 60 publications per year by 2025, indicating that digital culture has shifted from a niche conceptual topic to a consolidated research stream. Keyword co-occurrence reveals eight interconnected thematic clusters, with “digital culture” and “digital transformation” acting as the primary conceptual anchors and linking strongly to (1) digitalization and Industry 4.0 in SMEs, (2) performance and dynamic capabilities, (3) sustainability/ESG-oriented transformation, (4) digital strategy and structural alignment, (5) AI and IoT as emerging technological drivers, (6) the digital economy, (7) marketing and consumer interaction, and (8) leadership-driven innovation. Country production patterns highlight a recent geographic diversification, with rapid growth from emerging economies alongside established contributors. Document type analysis further indicates a field dominated by journal articles (68.0%), supported by book chapters (18.5%) and conference papers (11.0%), while reviews remain scarce, suggesting strong empirical expansion but limited synthesis. Overall, the study clarifies the intellectual structure, growth trajectory, and research frontiers of digital culture, offering a structured knowledge map to guide future theory building and research agendas.
This study applies a Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Review (B-SLR) framework and VOSviewer techniques, including co-citation, bibliographic coupling, country collaboration, and keyword co-occurrence, to illuminate how the field has evolved, who drives it, and where the next frontiers lie.
Bambang Samsul Hidayat· Journal of Intelligent Decis...· 0 citations
This study aims to map the intellectual and conceptual landscape of the B Corp movement within the scientific literature through a quantitative bibliometric analysis. Utilising the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database, the research analyses 108 peer-reviewed articles published between 2007 and 2025. Data visualisation and network analysis, including co-authorship and keyword co-occurrence, were performed using the VOSviewer software. The results show that the number of publications has been growing exponentially since 2011, and the majority of the articles are in the business and management field. A total of 282 keywords were evaluated, and “B Corp” (total link strength: 315) and “Corporate Social Responsibility” (total link strength: 92) were identified as central conceptual pillars. The most cited influential work is by Julie Battilana and Alnoor Ebrahim, with 728 citations. Geographic concentration is still strong in the USA and Europe, but research on emerging economies, such as Türkiye, where there are presently 15 certified B Corps, is critically lacking. The results show a conceptual move from general corporate responsibility to specific issues of 'social impact' and 'employee ownership'. The paper concludes with a research agenda for future research that can help bridge the gap between global norms and local institutional contexts, particularly for researchers in Türkiye.
Şafak Altay· Trends in Business and Econo...· 0 citations
Global research on the digital divide from 2006 to 2025 is mapped using bibliometric analysis of publications indexed in Scopus to highlight underexplored issues such as the experiences of marginalized groups, the offline impact of digital exclusion, and new challenges posed by AI, IoT and metaverse.
Che Wan Shamsul Bahri Che Wan Ahmad, Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, Nur Muizz Mohamed Salleh et al.· e-Jurnal Penyelidikan dan In...· 0 citations
This paper conducts a bibliometric exploration of research linking two concepts i.e. clusters and entrepreneurship, a domain that has expanded steadily over the past thirty years. Using 155 peer-reviewed articles sourced from the Dimensions database (1996–2025), the study applies the SPAR-4-SLR framework along with visualization software (VOSviewer) to identify intellectual patterns in publication trend, citations trend, influential journals, influential field of research and new themes map. The analysis highlights a consistent growth in publications from the early 2000s, with output peaking around 2021, followed by diversification into new thematic directions. Contributions are geographically widespread, though the United States accounts for much of the citation influence, particularly through foundational studies by Feldman (2001, 2005) and Sonfield & Lussier (2004). Among journals, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development leads in productivity, whereas Industrial and Corporate Change demonstrates higher citation impact. Bibliographic coupling reveals eight thematic clusters, centering on networks, social capital, proximity, and entrepreneurial capability as drivers of cluster vitality. Emerging topics such as digital entrepreneurship, artisanal industries, and handloom clusters suggest the field’s increasing socio-economic scope. Overall, the findings emphasize clusters as catalysts of innovation, entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, while offering insights for scholars and policymakers interested in advancing sustainable and entrepreneurship-driven development.
Dinesh Rawat, Kalpana Rawat· International journal of bus...· 0 citations
This study employed a quantitative bibliometric approach using 469 open-access Scopus-indexed publications. Data were analyzed using VOSviewer through keyword co-occurrence, network visualization, overlay visualization, density visualization, and co-authorship analyses to examine conceptual relationships, thematic evolution, and international scientific collaboration. The findings reveal a substantial increase in BRC publications, particularly between 2024 and 2025, reflecting growing scholarly attention to relational capabilities in the digital economy. Network visualization identifies digital transformation, dynamic capability, organizational resilience, digital capability, and business model innovation as the dominant conceptual foundations of BRC. Overlay visualization highlights emerging themes, including AI capability, digital ecosystems, sustainability, and the circular economy, while density visualization confirms that transformation, resilience, and business model innovation constitute the core knowledge structure of the field. Co-authorship analysis further demonstrates strong international collaboration led by China, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Indonesia, indicating the global and multidisciplinary nature of BRC research. This study extends the application of bibliometric mapping to the BRC domain by providing a comprehensive understanding of its intellectual structure, thematic evolution, and global collaboration patterns. It reinforces Dynamic Capabilities Theory by positioning BRC as a strategic capability that integrates relational resources, digital transformation, organizational resilience, and business model innovation. The findings offer a valuable research agenda for future studies on AI-enabled collaboration, digital ecosystems, sustainability-oriented innovation, and organizational resilience, while providing practical insights for managers seeking to strengthen digital competitiveness through collaborative capabilities.
Fery Setiawan, L. Sugianto, T. Purwaningrum et al.· Indonesian Journal of Enterp...· 0 citations
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