- Research Journal of Business and Management
- Vol: 4 Issue: 2
- EXAMINATION OF THE EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL INNOVATION BY THE SCIENCE MAPPI...
EXAMINATION OF THE EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL INNOVATION BY THE SCIENCE MAPPING METHOD
Authors : Tayfun Yildiz, Zafer Aykanat
Pages : 145-152
Doi:10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.469
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Publication Date : 2017-06-30
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Purpose - The main objective of this study is to investigate the evolution of the concept of social innovation from 1966 to the present day. Methodology- Bibliometric analysis enables researchers to examine statistically the country, author(s), cooperation among authors, citations, institutions, and published years of selected publications and to put forward the general structure of a certain discipline using obtained statistical findings. On the other hand, scientific mappling analysis is a method that concentrates on determining the evolution of a scientific field and its constrained scientific areas. In order to better understand how the evolution of the concept of social innovation changes and develops during the sample period, firstly, a bibliometric and secondly a scientific mapping analysis were performed and the findings were interpreted. Findings- SciMAT package program was used to perform scientific mapping analysis. Results reveal that there are 1,428 publications concentrating social innovation under Scopus database, while 58.1% (830) of them were articles, 16% (229) of them were conference papers, 11.2% (160) of them were book chapters and the rest of them was other publications. Conclusion- A thematic change was generally found for the concept of social innovation for the sample period of 1966-2016. The corresponding thematic change was generally evolved by the prominence and the decline of some associated scientific areas.Keywords : Bibliometric analysis, science mapping analysis, social innovation, innovation, strategic management