General Research Profiling for the Concept of a ‘Learning Organization’

Abstract

The idea of a learning organization has become one of the most prominent contemporary management concepts which attract the attention of the new ranks of researchers. The growing interest of researchers increases the number of publications related to the issue of a learning organization. Nevertheless, so far, the field of the study has not mapped thoroughly, which seems to be a gap in the body of knowledge. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to conduct general research profiling of the studies related to the concept of a learning organization based on the data retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. The key research profiling criteria included in the study are: a publication year, a number of citations, a country/territory, an institution, a source title and an author(s). The study is concluded with the thematic analysis of the most influential papers in the field. The paper is the first step to conduct the comprehensive research profiling of the studies on learning organizations. Further studies will be focused on subject area profiling and full-range topic profiling.