GLOBAL TRENDS IN LEADERSHIPS, RESILIENCE, AND INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOUR: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.35631/IJEMP.934033Keywords:
Bibliometric Analysis, Innovative Work Behaviour, Leadership, O rganisational Innovation, Resilience, VOSviewerAbstract
A proposed bibliometric is an analysis of leadership and resilience in IWB (innovative work behaviour) from 2016 to 2026. With the rapid digital transformation, instability and confusion in around the world, it is struggling to be having workplaces with flexibility of leadership and employee for ensure sustained Innovation. However available literature is fragmented lacking synthesis around proposition made about this potentially major evolving area of research. Closing this gap, the study systematically tables the development, impact and thematic content of the literature, clarifying how knowledge in this area has progressed. A total of 518 Scopus-indexed documents were extracted and cleaned through OpenRefine by using a rigorous bibliometric methodological approach. Scopus Analyzer was employed for descriptive performance analysis while VOSviewer was used to conduct science mapping, co-author, citation and keyword co-occurrence analyses. Our findings illustrate a rapid and sustained increase in publications from 2020 onward, reflecting rising scholarly interest fueled by the forces of digitalization and pandemic-initiated operational difficulties. Innovative work behaviour with a central thematic link between leadership styles (transformational, servant, ethical, inclusive and digital leadership) and resilience-related psychological mechanisms such as empowerment, self-efficacy and work engagement. Publications output and strength of collaborative links indicate a less clear change for countries lead by economic words including China, Pakistan and Malaysia. Thematic clustering points to a heavy reliance on leadership focused and individual-level explanations, while digital capability and sustainability perspectives are relatively under-participated in the literature. Together, this study offers a theoretical mapping of the intellectual heritage of the field, a review of various hotspot and underexplored areas, an updated understanding of changing patterns in research into leadership to resilience to innovative work behaviour in modern organizations.
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