A Bibliometric Analysis of Open Strategy: A new Concept in Strategic Management

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

2 Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Strategy development has traditionally been an exclusive and secretive matter. However, some organizations have recently used IT to enable openness for making a strategy. The aim of this paper was to research the trends of open strategy by applying bibliometric mapping. The method involves identifying open strategy-related documents, including a sample of 1717 existing documents from 2000 to 2016. Major trends in open strategy research literature including variations across publication years, identifying active research areas, co-authorship collaboration, and contribution of different countries were explored. The results indicated that the use of open strategy concept is growing in strategic management, despite the initial nature of strategy making. Based on the results and according to the amount of published documents, the most productive year has been 2015.

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Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)
Volume 12, Issue 3
September 2019
Pages 363-377

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