The Role of Managers in Corporate Change Management: A Bibliometric Review

Ángel Gutiérrez-Iñiguez, Jesús Collado-Agudo () and Josep Rialp-Criado
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Ángel Gutiérrez-Iñiguez: Departament d’Economia de l’Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Jesús Collado-Agudo: Santander Financial Institute (SANFI), University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
Josep Rialp-Criado: Departament d’Economia de l’Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 14, 1-15

Abstract: In response to a business context characterized by change, a large number of approaches from different areas of knowledge has developed in the literature without an integrative framework. For this reason, the purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive overview of change management literature. Taking as its basis a bibliometric study on change management, this article offers a classification of these approaches that provides an overview of the current state of the research on the role of managers in change management. Four hundred and ninety-three scientific documents (1333 keywords and 883 authors) were retrieved from the Web of Science database from 2013 to 2022. Our results identify three main topics underlying change management literature: organizational change, management and performance. The theoretical and practical implications of each dimension are analyzed and allow us to propose a classification of the literature on corporate change management. Furthermore, the implications of sustainability are also explained.

Keywords: change management; resistance to change; organizational transformation; bibliometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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