Science Mapping Trends and Themes: A Bibliometric Analysis on Organizational Agility

Abstract

This bibliometric analysis reviews research progress on organizational agility within management literature using the Scopus database. Publications in this emerging area have risen exponentially since 2014, confirming agility’s paramount importance for firms facing market volatility. Through co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and keyword co-occurrence analyses, we map intellectual milestones and trace thematic developments over recent decades. Key capabilities like information technology flexibility, sensing environmental change, and reconfiguring resources dynamically enable organizational agility. While information systems and technology management initiated foundational work, strategic management, and organizational behavior perspectives now also prominently feature. Recent attention has expanded toward service industries, sustainability, and types of agility. Yet opportunities remain for the public sector, traditional industry, and cross-cultural applications. By profiling publications, authors, directions, and research networks around organizational agility, this investigation contributes an evidence-based overview to benefit scholars and practitioners.