Research on Psychological Contract Violation: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of scholarly research on psychological contract violation. A review of existing research will help to identify gaps and opportunities for further investigation in the domain of psychological contract violation. Using VOSviewer and Citespace, we analysed 228 articles and the associated 12273 references on platform research in the Web of Science database. We identified the most influential publications, authors, journals, institutions, and countries in platform research and explored the structure of cited references, cited authors, and cited countries. In addition, we explored the structure of cited references, cited authors, and cited journals to further understand the theoretical underpinnings of platform research. Moreover, through VOSViewer co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis, Citespace keyword citation space evolution analysis. This paper discusses the evolution of psychological contract violation research, and predicts the future development trend, to provide reference for the future development of theory and practice.