Bibliometric analysis of groupthink in organization: Cases study in the world

Abstract

A phenomenon that often occurs in an organization is groupthink. Groupthink is a concept that describes the habit of seeking consensus in organizations or groups; most of the results of this process are a terrible final decision and fatal to the organization. Research Objective To analyze groupthink in the organization. The method used in this study is qualitative research with a literature study approach. The data source in this study was taken from the Scopus database by entering the keyword "Groupthink AND organization" with the number of articles, namely, 63 documents. This study found that the global groupthink study from 1982 to 2022 was only 63 articles; this shows that groupthink studies within the organization have not been studied much. At the same time, groupthink is often found in an organization. The group think tank began to be widely studied from 2005 to 2022, although it is understood that it is not significantly experiencing a development trend. Next, during the time bracket from 1982 to 2022, groupthink was studied in terms of behavior, political group dynamics in organizations, decision-making, communication and legal cases in an organization and was widely encountered in the United States of America.