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

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.

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The purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive overview of change management literature, and classify different approaches based on a bibliometric study. The research offers an overview of the current state of research on the role of managers in change management. The results identify three main topics in change management literature: organizational change, management, and performance.