Innovativeness: a bibliometric vision of the conceptual and intellectual structures and the past and future research dir
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Innovativeness: a bibliometric vision of the conceptual and intellectual structures and the past and future research directions Danilo Magno Marchiori1 · Silvio Popadiuk1 · Emerson Wagner Mainardes1 · Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues1 Received: 14 June 2019 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract The literature on the theme of innovativeness displays a multidimensional character and interrelates with diverse approaches and research perspectives. As from the early 1990s, the scientific literature on the theme began to undergo significant growth and resulting in researchers in this field encountering rising difficulties as they attempt to remain updated as regards the different research flows. Furthermore, the volume of international production rendered it equally difficult to identify the underlying intellectual and conceptual structures of this field. In this context, the present study stems from the application of a quantitative approach to these scientific outputs through the means of combining diverse bibliometric techniques, including the co-occurrence of keywords, bibliographic coupling and cocitation analysis. This gathered and analysed 2523 of the scientific works available in the Web of Science, one of the most important global databases of scientific knowledge. This identified the origins of the current literature on innovativeness as well as its core justifications and leading intellectual and conceptual structures, including strategic and longitudinal perspectives on the development of this theme within the business studies field. We furthermore deployed, in a complementary approach, three different software applications: VOSviewer, SciMAT and Bibliometrix. Finally, based upon qualitative analysis, this study furthermore identifies a set of research opportunities that enable those approaching this field to plan, target and disseminate future research efforts. Keywords Innovativeness · Co-citations · Bibliographic coupling · Co-occurrence · Stateof-the-art
* Danilo Magno Marchiori [email protected] 1
University of Beira Interior and Mackenzie Presbiterian University, Covilhã, Portugal
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Introduction Researchers worldwide have dedicated increasing amounts of attention to the innovativeness theme (the capacity to innovate), which has correspondingly generated great growth in the global scientific production of knowledge, especially after the end of the last century coupled with the emergence of new sub-fields and new fronts for research. The literature contains diverse versions of the innovativeness concept, across various levels and deploying different units of analysis, such as the individual (Chan and Parhankangas 2017), the organisational (Story et al. 2015), groups (Akhavan and Mahdi Hosseini 2016) and countries (Lema et al. 2015). The sheer extent of scientific interest reflects in the great volume of information that renders it increasingly difficult for researchers interested in this theme to remain suitably updated as well as aware of and
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