A bibliometric analysis of the world of VUCA in business and management literature

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make a bibliometric analysis of scientific studies on "VUCA" in the fields of business and management for the period of 2013-2023. In this context, data was obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database and the VOSviewer programme is applied to analyze. The results showed that it was determined that there were 393 studies on the concept of VUCA, and it was found that 154 of these studies were in the business and management category. The findings of the analysis indicate that the highest number of studies on VUCA were conducted in the management category and the most studied document type was the article. According to the results of the analysis, which revealed that the interest in the subject had been increasing, especially after 2016, the most cited author was “Bennett and Lemoine (2014)”; the most productive country was the USA and the most used keyword besides “VUCA” was "leadership". It is belived that the findings obtained from this study will insight into the studies to be carried out on the subject and contribute to the researchers about the research areas that are growing in the field of VUCA and the topics that will be the focus of research activities in the near future.