Visualization Analysis of Organizational Resilience Research Based on CiteSpace From 1990–2022

The world is currently dealing with the aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has resulted in momentous changes, the likes of which had not been witnessed within the previous century. These adverse events and the resulting uncertainty have posed enormous challenges to organizations, and many are on the verge of collapse. Organizations urgently need to enhance their risk management abilities and capacity to cope with crises, and organizational resilience, as such a tool, has attracted widespread attention in China and abroad. The purpose of this study is to understand the research status and development trend of organizational resilience. In this study, we applied CiteSpace to perform a visual analysis. Searching for topics related to organizational resilience, we retrieved papers published from 1990–2022 in the Web of Science Core database. Second, we constructed an author, institution, and country/region collaboration network to identify the most prolific authors, institutions and countries, respectively. The distribution of core journals determined by journal co-citations, the document co-citation network, and a clustering analysis revealed the research topics and knowledge structure, the author co-citation network revealed which authors were influential, the keyword co-citation network indicated popular research topics, and the keyword bursts highlighted the research fields. This paper analyzes the main contributions of organizational resilience research at the author, institution, and country levels; knowledge sources; interdisciplinary characteristics and research areas in organizational resilience; and direction of future research.