Leadership styles from a transformational leadership perspective: bibliometric analysis of scientific production

Abstract

This bibliometric study seeks to quantitatively analyze scientific articles on Leadership Styles with a focus on Transformational Business Leadership. Using the VOSWiever program, an analysis was performed on 838 articles published in Scopus journals from 2000 to May 2024. The results show the top five contributing countries: United States, Australia, United Kingdom, China and Pakistan. In addition, records of studies in Latin America are found in countries such as Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico and that 2020 was the year with the highest scientific production. Using Lotka, Price, Bradford's Law, prolific authors, country and journal productivity were identified. With the Hirsch index, the productivity of countries and journals. Using Zipf's law, the most frequent keywords related to innovation, knowledge management, management, gender, change management, job satisfaction and organizational culture, among others, were revealed. The article seeks to contribute to knowledge management by suggesting the development of lines of research little studied, evaluating the scientific work of authors, institutions and even countries, also with the eighth goal of sustainable development (SDG) with the study of the phenomenon of transformational leadership that models practices that favor economic growth, labor welfare and organizational sustainability. For future research, it is suggested to examine measurement models and concrete effects produced by this transformational leadership style, as a mediator related to work performance.