Complex adaptive systems in business and management: A literature review and evolutionary process with a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The importance of decisions that businesses will make in the short, medium, and long term continues to rise due to changes in local dynamics with macro-impacts such as artificial intelligence, automation, crises, and epidemics. In this regard, the subject areas for the studies that will be conducted in the area of international business and management are constantly changing. Various views, including those of complex adaptive systems (CAS), can be used to examine this change. Using bibliometric analysis, this study seeks to synthesize the theoretical and empirical work from studies that use a CAS viewpoint in the business and management fields. Using co-citation and bibliographic coupling analysis, the first step is to investigate the conceptual and intellectual structure of the literature. Then, utilizing keywords from the business and management CAS literature, a thematic analysis is used to explain how the discipline has developed. A study agenda is suggested based on the integrated findings in order to direct the theoretical, empirical, and methodological growth of business and management scholars, particularly in Türkiye, from a CAS viewpoint. The study's most surprising finding is that in the area of global business and management, those who study supply management and supply chains are most likely to embrace the CAS perspective.

Keywords

• Complex adaptive systems
• bibliometric analysis
• organizations
• management
• supply chain

İşletme ve yönetimde karmaşık uyarlanabilir sistemler: Bibliyometrik bir analizle yazın taraması ve evrimsel süreci

Abstract

Yapay zekâ, otomasyon, krizler, salgın hastalıklar gibi makro etkilerle yerel dinamiklerdeki değişimler sonucunda işletmelerin kısa, orta ve uzun vadede alacakları kararların önemi artmaya devam ediyor. Bu bağlamda, uluslararası işletme ve yönetim alanında yapılacak çalışmalar için konu alanları sürekli değişiyor. Bu değişimi incelemek için karmaşık uyarlanabilir sistemler (KUS) dahil olmak üzere çeşitli görüşler kullanılabilir. Bu çalışma, bibliyometrik analiz kullanarak, işletme ve yönetim alanlarında KUS bakış açısını kullanan çalışmaların teorik ve ampirik çalışmalarını sentezlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Ortak atıf ve bibliyografik eşleştirme analizi kullanılarak, ilk adım yazının entelektüel ve kavramsal yapısını araştırmaktır. Ardından, işletme ve yönetim KUS yazınındaki anahtar kelimeler kullanılarak, disiplinin nasıl geliştiğini açıklamak için tematik bir analiz kullanılmaktadır. Bütünleşik bulgulara dayanarak, özellikle Türkiye'deki işletme ve yönetim akademisyenlerinin teorik, ampirik ve metodolojik gelişimini KUS bakış açısıyla yönlendirmek için bir çalışma gündemi önerilmektedir. Çalışmanın en şaşırtıcı bulgusu, küresel işletme ve yönetim alanında tedarik yönetimi ve tedarik zincirleri üzerine çalışanların KUS bakış açısını benimseme olasılıklarının yüksek olmasıdır.

Keywords

• Karmaşık Uyarlanabilir Sistemler
• Bibliyometrik Analiz
• Örgütler
• Yönetim
• Tedarik Zinciri

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