Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.36
VISUALIZING THE KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT RESEARCH THROUGH BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Abstract
Psychological contract refers to the understanding or belief of individuals regarding the mutual obligations of employers in the same organization. It has a direct bearing on the working attitudes of employees and the efficiency of the organization. In this paper, the relevant research on psychological contract is analysed visually to disclose the evolution history and future trend of the research domain. A total of 458 documents on psychological contract were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database, and pre-processed. The valid samples were visually displayed on CiteSpace, a Java-based information visualization software package, and then subjected to co-word analysis based on four keywords. In this way, the research frontiers and hotspots of psychological contract were summarized, and future research directions were identified. This research sheds new lights on psychological contract research.
Keywords
Psychological Contract, Bibliometric Analysis, Co-Word Analysis, CiteSpace.