Knowledge sharing in organization: Reviewing the foundations of the field and current themes using bibliometrics

Abstract

Understanding the history, evolution, and present tendencies of a discipline requires a thorough review of its literature. Despite various review studies on the field of knowledge management (KM), its subdiscipline ‘knowledge sharing’ has only seen a handful of investigations with a slew of limitations. As a result, the present work aims to conduct a review of existing literature on knowledge sharing (KS) using complementary bibliometric methodologies. To do this, we conduct our reviews using two complimentary bibliometric techniques: ‘Co-citation Reference Analysis’ (CCA-R) and ‘Bibliographic Coupling Document Analysis’ (BCA-D), and we highlight the field's origins and current themes. We then map our findings using free science visualization software (VOS viewer). The study's implications are examined, and we show new paths for further research.