Analysis of publications on decision-making strategies in higher education institutions

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this article is to present analysis literature interested in decision-making strategies in higher education institutions. Author keywords contained in the publications were analysed to show links between them and present recent interested areas of strategies in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Analysis based on bibliometric data of world literature published in Web of Science and Scopus. The study included a quantitative analysis of publications. The results are presented in tables, graphs and figures. Findings: The successive part of the publication analyses the 4125 documents in Web of Science and Scopus. Based on the 2886 documents searched in Scopus, author keywords were analysed and connections between them were visualised (software support visualisations). The study identified an increase in interest in topics such as “sustainability”, “instructional strategies”. The analysis of publications interested in strategies, higher education institutions and decision-making showed that 57 publications met the defined search criteria. Only 12 of these were published up to 2012, while the remaining 46 were published in the last 10 years. Recurring author keywords in recent publications are: "strategic management", "strategic decision-making", "strategic decisions". Earlier publications have also included such keywords as “innovation”, “sustainabililty”, “information systems”, “knowledge management”. Research limitations/implications: Research based on two literature bases, limited to English language. Next step of research can be made in all languages ang more publication bases. The study focuses on quantitative analysis of publications based on author keywords. The research should be expanded of a detailed and qualitative analysis of the publications found and their evaluation in terms of strategies in university decision-making. It would be reasonable in the analysis and interpretation of the results obtained to group or standardize the keywords used in publications, e.g. “decision making” and “decision-making”. Originality/value: Paper presents bibliometric analysis of publication interested on strategies in higher education institutions decision-making. The analysis has made it possible to identify trends in the literature based on author keywords. The results of the survey shows the growing interest strategies in decision-making in higher education institutions. Keywords: Decision-making, strategies, higher education institutions, universities. Category of the paper: Literature review.