Current Landscape of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Research: A Bibliometric Review

Abstract

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a type of integrated business management software that allows a company to gather, store, manage, and understand data from various business processes. Many studies have explored about it implementations and success among big conglomerates. This study aims to explore the current landscape of the ERP studies from the perspective of the form of publications, trends, and conceptual structure using bibliometric analysis in order to recognize the extent of ERP studies that have been explored till now. Biblioshiny, a Bibliometrix R package tool, was used to examine the current form of publication and the knowledge structure in ERP. A search query on the Scopus database using the term "enterprise resource planning" was performed, retrieving 1, 232 scholarly articles from 1992 to 2021. Bibliometric results indicate that the studies on this research field are growing steadily.