Title: Retrospection of merger and acquisition research in HRM: science mapping and thematic clustering

Authors: Sanober Khan; Shalki

Addresses: Department of Management and Social Sciences, Amity University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ' Department of Management and Social Sciences, Amity University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Abstract: The aim of this research is to synthesise the literature on merger and acquisition research in human resource management using bibliometric analysis. This study looks at past, current, and future merger and acquisition research in human resource management. The documents are extracted from the Scopus database, and 171 documents are chosen for bibliometric analysis using the PRISMA technique. To identify the most influential document and authors, citation analysis is performed. The most prolific writers and sources are identified using productivity analysis. The four thematic clusters of merger and acquisition research in human resource management are discovered using bibliographic coupling. To identify citation patterns and highly referenced texts, co-citation analysis is employed. Additionally, co-occurrence analysis is employed to create the study thematic trends, and word cloud is used to highlight the frequently used keywords in merger and acquisition research in human resource management. The articles outline the directions for further study.

Keywords: merger and acquisition; human resources management; bibliometric analysis; word cloud; co-occurrence analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2024.142146

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2024 Vol.18 No.3, pp.371 - 385

Received: 20 Jul 2023
Accepted: 23 Jul 2023
Published online: 10 Oct 2024 *

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