KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN BUSINESS AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Over the past years, business intelligence and competitive intelligence practices achieved a significant importance in organizations, due to their capability of providing the necessary knowledge for the decision-makers, providing a significant advantage against market competitors or internal and external threats and vulnerabilities. Also, business intelligence and competitive intelligence have been under researcher’s scope, the literature in those domains being continuously updated with new findings. Also, knowledge sharing is a process that helps organizations increase their employees understanding and expertise in certain fields, being highly recognized by both practitioners and researchers for its importance and efficiency. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze the state of the literature in business intelligence and competitive intelligence, in correlation with knowledge sharing concept, in order to identify the connections between these domains. Also, this article aims to present an analysis that could provide a better understanding about the research interest in integrating knowledge sharing in business intelligence and competitive intelligence practices. In order to achieve the proposed objective, this research performs a bibliometric analysis using VOSViewer, a specialized software designed for creating visualizing maps that present networks between specific items. The information used for conducting this research was retrieved from Web of Science core collection and Scopus, world’s largest index databases.