Jul 2026· Journal of Intelligent Decision Making and Information Science· Vol 3, pp. 414-431· 0 citations
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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.
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Over the last decade, scholarship on digital transformation, digital capabilities, and organizational performance has expanded rapidly. However, a holistic map of their intellectual structure within highly regulated micro-financial contexts has been missing. Drawing on a comprehensive corpus of 12,557 peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Scopus database, 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. Results reveal an accelerating publication trajectory after 2024 and a concentrated output across interdisciplinary management, strategy, and financial stability journals. While developed Western economies and major East Asian hubs lead in volume, distinct regional ecosystems emerge with variable structural efficiencies. Multiple keyword clusters are unveiled, ranging from the micro-foundations of dynamic technological capabilities and strategic agility to systems-level regulatory environment compliance and localized banking intermediation. Co-authorship and institutional networks expose fragmented collaboration patterns with prominent gatekeepers but limited cross-regional integration. Synthesizing these structural trends, the paper highlights three urgent research frontiers: integrating capabilities across the structural adoption-continuance cycle, contextualising dynamic strategies under stringent institutional bounds in lower-middle-income emerging settings (such as the Bank Perekonomian Rakyat or BPR sector in Indonesia under the UU P2SK omnibus mandate), and embedding granular technological risk parameters into macro-economic banking models.
Digital transformation is fundamentally reshaping microfinance institutions worldwide, yet the cumulative evidence base on its effects remains fragmented across disciplinary and methodological boundaries. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the multidimensional impact of digital transformation on microfinance research. Primary data were drawn from journal articles published between 2018 and 2024. An initial pool of 1,000 documents was retrieved, of which 562 articles were retained for analysis after applying predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Keyword co-occurrence analysis and descriptive statistics were used in VOSviewer to map the field's intellectual structure. The analysis identifies seven thematic clusters, revealing that institutional capacity, regulatory quality, digital infrastructure, and sociocultural context function as critical moderating conditions that determine whether digital transformation yields inclusive or exclusionary outcomes. The findings further indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly accelerated digital adoption among microfinance institutions. Collectively, this bibliometric synthesis offers a replicable analytical framework to guide future evidence-building in digital microfinance research, while highlighting critical avenues for theoretical and empirical advancement in the field.
N. Chaity, M. Rahaman· European Scientific Journal· 0 citations
This study uses a hybrid methodology of bibliometric analysis and systematic review to critically review the existing research on corporate digital transformation (CDT) effects published between 2018 and 2025. Descriptive analysis shows that this research field was still in its infancy before 2022 and experienced an explosive growth period thereafter. China takes the lead in publication volume, while
Finance Research Letters
emerges as the most prolific journal and research results are predominantly concentrated in domains such as finance and economics. Keyword and thematic analysis indicate that “digital transformation” is the core keyword, and research themes have gradually expanded from basic dimensions like firm performance to diverse areas including ESG, supply chain management, and risk management. The evolution of CDT effects research proceeds along the lines of technological determinism, organizational adaptation, and social construction. This study advances a systematic understanding of the CDT effects by developing a bibliometric overview of relevant research and illustrating the field's conceptual framework and thematic interconnections. The findings offer empirical insights to guide managers in formulating differentiated digital strategies and assist policymakers in constructing supportive ecosystems for digital transformation.
Qun Hong, Yi-Fan Zhang, Li-Li Hao et al.· Journal of economic surveys...· 0 citations
In an increasingly digital corporate landscape, information systems (IS) integration has become central to realizing the synergies anticipated in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). While the complexity of IS integration in M&A contexts is widely acknowledged, prior research remains fragmented across disciplines, methods and thematic perspectives, limiting cumulative insight. This study aims to address this fragmentation leveraging bibliometric techniques to examine 207 peer-reviewed publications on IS integration in M&A indexed in Scopus between 1984 and 2024. The findings highlight how IS integration has evolved over time, pivoting from being initially framed primarily as a technical challenge into a multi-dimensional process shaped by organizational structures, human agency and strategic intent. The analysis further reveals that scholarly output has been dominated by contributions from the USA, China and several European countries, while also indicating a gradual broadening of geographic engagement, including increased contributions from emerging economies such as India. Recent research increasingly focuses on the role of digital platforms, data-driven architectures and artificial intelligence, alongside the continued influence of people and culture in determining post-merger outcomes. The review also exposes areas that remain underexplored, including aspects such as decision-making dynamics, human–technology interactions and the mechanisms through which value erosion occurs in delayed or failed integrations. By consolidating dispersed research streams, this study extends prior qualitative reviews and provides a structured basis for more cumulative theoretical and empirical inquiry into IS integration in an M&A.
H. S. Mahanta, Anupriya Khan· IIM Kozhikode Society &...· 0 citations
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.
Khaled Nawaser, Hassan Hessari, Hoda Mohsenifard et al.· SN Business & Economics· 0 citations
This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the intellectual and thematic evolution of human resource information systems (HRIS) research within the context of digital transformation. Despite its growing strategic importance, HRIS literature remains fragmented across theoretical, methodological, and geographical dimensions. This study seeks to map the structural dynamics, emerging themes, and future research trajectories shaping the field. A bibliometric and science mapping approach was employed using data extracted from 303 peer-reviewed articles (1990–2025) indexed in the Scopus database. The analysis utilized VOSviewer and Biblioshiny (R Bibliometrix) to examine publication performance, co-authorship networks, citation patterns, and keyword co-occurrences, offering an evidence-based assessment of the intellectual landscape of HRIS research. Results reveal the transition of HRIS from a technology-centric system to a strategic and human-centered digital capability, emphasizing themes such as digital transformation, HR analytics, employee trust, and organizational agility. The study identifies key theoretical clusters, influential authors, and global collaboration patterns while exposing persistent gaps related to conceptual integration, methodological diversity, and regional representation. The findings provide valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to strengthen theoretical coherence, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and enhance HRIS-driven digital capability within organizations. This study is among the first to offer a global, longitudinal bibliometric synthesis of HRIS research, presenting an integrative framework that links technological innovation, strategic human resource management, and knowledge-based organizational development.
Noni Setyorini, P. Nastiti, Chadyan Fathurachman et al.· Asian Management and Busines...· 0 citations
Type of the article: Research ArticleAbstractContemporary organizations face mounting pressure to adapt beyond the imperatives of market competition, navigating demands that span digital disruption, sustainability transitions, and systemic institutional change. Despite the centrality of dynamic capabilities as an explanatory framework in strategic management, the literature has predominantly examined them through the lens of competitive advantage, leaving broader organizational and societal applications underexplored. This study addresses that gap by examining how the dynamic capabilities framework is theorized and applied in contexts beyond firm-level competitive advantage. A systematic literature review combined with bibliometric analysis was conducted using Scopus, covering peer-reviewed publications from 1995 to 2025. Three search strings, dynamic capabilities and technology, dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity, and dynamic capabilities and sustainability, yielded 750 articles after applying inclusion, exclusion, and quality criteria. VOSviewer was used for keyword co-occurrence mapping and cluster visualization, while qualitative thematic coding was conducted in MAXQDA to deepen interpretation. The analysis identified four structurally interconnected clusters: innovation, digital transformation, technology, and sustainability. The findings suggest that innovation is frequently treated in the literature as a key enactment mechanism of dynamic capabilities, with 691 co-occurrences and 215 overlapping coded segments. Sustainability represented the largest and most rapidly expanding domain, with 352 filtered articles, while technology functioned as an enabling layer rather than a capability in itself. These findings demonstrate that dynamic capabilities are undergoing a substantive reorientation, from performance-centric mechanisms toward integrative governance processes for navigating socio-technical complexity. Organizations should embed dynamic capabilities in innovation routines, digitally supported sensing processes, and sustainability-aligned strategic priorities.
Kristian Pultz Schlosser· Problems and Perspectives in...· 0 citations