Abstract
This study takes an integrated approach of quantitative and qualitative studies to understand and analyze the scientific research published on strategic alliances between 1980 and 2018 in the Web of Science database and to reveal the evolution of themes in this area. The quantitative study adopts bibliometric techniques based on citation and co-occurrence analyses of keywords. The qualitative study includes a content analysis of the articles carried out to discover the content of the most cited articles on strategic alliances. The results show that research on strategic alliances has evolved over the period 1980 and 2018, moving from a stream of research focused on the motivations for forming and structuring strategic alliances in the period 1980-1995, from another stream focused on the learning, performance and failure of strategic alliances in the period 1995 and 2001 to a new stream characterized by the emergence of new terms such as absorptive capacity with a strong emphasis on the management and transfer of knowledge within strategic alliances.
Highlights
Bibliometric or scientometric studies on the evolution of research topics in different fields are frequently published
The quantitative study adopts bibliometric techniques based on citation and co-occurrence analysis of keywords
This paper examines the interrelationships between trust, control and risk in different typologies of strategic alliances
Summary
Bibliometric or scientometric studies on the evolution of research topics in different fields are frequently published. In 1965, (Price, 1965) is considered one of the pioneers of the discipline by analyzing the scientific activity of the sociological component and according to sociological rules. These studies introduce quantitative, qualitative or combined dimensions to the measurement of science. D.) has proposed that bibliometrics consists of a variety of mathematical and statistical methods that allow for quantitative analyses of the sciences Bibliometrics is the use of a set of mathematical and statistical techniques that seek to analyze bibliographic references. These studies use a wide variety of techniques, the most important of which are based on citations, co-citations and co-occurrences
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