Thematic and Conceptual Analysis of Servant Leadership: A Bibliometric Approach

The study of leadership has taken a paradigm shift from vision to execution due to increased competition in the globalized market. It has been analyzed that companies adopting Servant leadership continue to grow out of the various kinds of leadership. This paper analyses the studies on Servant leadership for the past 30 years, from 1991 to 2021. The papers published in SCOPUS indexed journals have been analyzed through bibliometric analysis using VOS viewer and Biblioshiny. This study is about the evolutionary history of Servant leadership from conceptual to scale development to model formation in the past 30 years. Further bibliometric analysis included descriptive analysis, cluster and thematic analysis. The study showed presently servant leadership research is limited to specific sectors like health and education, more research on servant leadership is needed in other fields. Majority of the scholars are working on employee level outcomes of servant leadership. The study showed gap in identification of servant leadership applications at organizational level across industries.