Hotspot and trend visualization analysis of enterprise dynamic capability research: A quantitative study of citespace patterns based on 1998–2018 top four international leading strategic management journal

Abstract

In recent years, dynamic capabilities of enterprises has been widely concerned by the scholars. Combing the milestone literatures of dynamic capabilities and studying the trend of dynamic capabilities are significate for seeking the research direction of dynamic capabilities as well as guiding the enterprise development in the practice. This article based on the web of Science database, studies the literature of SSCI in the past 20 years, taking the dynamic ability of enterprises as the key word, using citation analysis software CiteSpace 5.3. By using visualization and quantitative literature review method, this article reviewed the literature of domestic and foreign scholars on the dynamic capabilities of enterprises, and found out literature which play a key role in this field, and then found out the development path of the research on enterprise dynamic capabilities, as well as based on this, analyzed the frontier literatures. Finally, it formed the development prospect of the research direction of enterprise dynamic capabilities.