An Overview of 25 Years of European Scientific Collaboration in the Field of Strategic Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

The main objective of the paper is to identify and explore specifics and trends of international scientific collaboration in the field of strategic management in Europe over the last quarter-century. Specifically, the study analyses those scholarly connections between countries and cities on the basis of co-authorship to determine the flow of knowledge from the geographical aspect, as well as the state of collaboration among different authors (co-authorship and citations' networks), that is, the depth of such network (collaboration intensity) and whether such a scientific community is consistent, i.e. number of connected elements or related networks. This is the first time international scientific collaboration between researchers in the field of strategic management has been studied to such an extent. We employed all sources of relevant data and analyzed 5,237 results from the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Through the application of bibliometric analysis, our study offers a comprehensive and up-to-date identification and assessment of trends in international scientific collaboration in the strategic management field in Europe.