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This paper aims to contribute to the debate on technological innovation, organization and work. Although technological innovation remained a debated topic in the academic literature during the past years, its implications for organizational processes seem still not sufficiently theorized and empirically investigated. By using two complementary journals’ rankings a search in the ISI Web of Science platform from 1985 through 2013 was performed. To analyze the 998 scientific retrieved contributions a bibliometric analysis has been conducted, adopting also Social Network Analysis tools. Our results reveal a significant growth of the technological innovation literature over the investigated period, the multidisciplinarity of the field and, particularly, the relevance of management and business and economics contributions. Overall, this study offers a broad overview of the literature on technological innovation and emphasizes the opportunity to investigate the role of technological innovation within the organizational life.
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1985 was selected as the starting point because the chronological coverage of ISI dates from this year. The search has been conducted for the last time on August 7th, 2013 in order to have a sample updated as much as possible to the latest contributions available on the database ISI.
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Brumana, M., Decastri, M., Scarozza, D., Za, S. (2014). A Bibliometric Study of the Literature on Technological Innovation: An Analysis of 60 International Academic Journals. In: Baglieri, D., Metallo, C., Rossignoli, C., Pezzillo Iacono, M. (eds) Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07905-9_9
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