INVESTIGATION OF STUDIES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RELATED TURKEY WITH BIBLIOMETRIC METHOD AND SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Corporate governance is a tool that can be used to manage organizations more effectively and more transparently. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the importance given to corporate governance principles has increased both in the world and in Turkey. As a matter of fact, the academic literature in this field has shown an interesting development as the application has spread to a wide area. In other words, the subject of corporate governance has become increasingly common in business/management literature in recent years. In this study, 245 Turkey-related articles on corporate governance, accessed through the Web of Science database, were examined. Descriptive analysis, bibliometric analysis and systematic (thematic) analysis were used as methods, respectively. Using these three methods, literature gaps and researcher trends in this field were tried to be identified. In this regard, firstly, in the descriptive analysis, it was seen that there were not enough publications in the fields of "ethics" and "law" in Turkey-related publications. Again, it has been concluded that the number of studies on corporate governance is increasing rapidly both in Turkey and around the world. Again, within the framework of bibliometric analysis, in the visualization made with the VOSviewer program, it was found that articles related to corporate governance were especially related to the subject of "financial performance". In the study, within the framework of thematic analysis, six themes were determined and each theme was evaluated and six literature gaps were identified. In this context, it has been stated that in addition to specifically explaining the research gaps that can contribute to the literature, attention should be paid to the citation performance of possible qualitative or conceptual studies as a general evaluation.