Relationship between operational flexibility and performance through bibliometric techniques
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https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2013.4.1007Keywords:
Bibliometric indicators, Lotka’s law, co-citation of authors, co-words, operational flexibility, performance, Social Sciences Citation IndexAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis in the field of operations management, specifically the issue that relates operational flexibility with business performance during the period 1981-2011. The analysis applies indicators concerning both activity (quantification of authors, journals or Lotka’s Law) and relationships (citations by author, journal co-citation between authors and co-word analysis) using the Web of Science’s Social Sciences Citation Index as a data source. The results provided by the activity indicators show that it is a relatively recent field of study, which verifies compliance with the Lotka’s Law, and where the most productive authors and journals do not necessarily coincide with the most cited ones. The co-citation analysis has identified authors of reference in the field. Finally, the co-word analysis has allowed the identification of the research topics comprising the area of study and classified into widely developed issues, specialized peripheral issues, peripheral underdeveloped issues, and emerging subject matters. These are the most relevant, in that they identify important current issues that are still poorly developed.
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