The Study on the Hot Topics of Improvisation Research Based on the Co-Word Analysis

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The research of improvisation has been become an emerging management area in recent years, the purpose of this study is to explore the hot topics of this research domain. Co-word analysis was performed by using the keywords of relevant publications in the improvisational field included by Web of Knowledge database from 1997 to 2012. The results of multivariate statistical techniques show that the improvisation research involves many fields including organizational theory, innovation, learning, entrepreneurship, strategy and change. The social network analysis was used to trace the dynamic changes of the improvisation research, and results show that improvisation field has some established research themes and it also changes rapidly to embrace new themes.

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