The Significance of Agile Transformational Leadership in Organizational Change Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

In the present BANI (brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible) world, agility and organizational change holds a great significance in an organization for its survival and growth. As per prior studies, organizational change doesn’t deliver the anticipated results due to various reasons and challenges. Employee resistance being the main concern, leadership holds a great importance in handling resistance, managing conflicts, dealing with setbacks, and empowering the team. Transformational leaderships are often termed as change agents as they support and uplift their teams’ creativity and innovation, thus motivating them towards change. This study’s primary goal is to examine and discuss the mapping of research landscape, depicting the relationship between agile transformational leadership and organizational change management. For this analysis, bibliographical data of 1848 documents published between 2014 to 2023, was extracted from Dimensions database after applying exclusion criteria. This extracted database is used for analyzing and visualizing citation patterns, evolution, and growth of subject- performance, publication and journal sources, research locations, co-authorship relations and co-occurrence of keywords, using bibliometric software, VOSviewer and RStudio. The research shares the advancement of this topic in last ten years, providing theoretical support and substructure for future studies. As per this analysis, transformational leadership can be of a great support to organizations due to it affiliative management style, leading to a positive work environment that embraces change and innovation.