Exploring Contemporary Research Trends in Theoretical Foundations of Social Exchange Theory: A Bibliometric Inquiry

Abstract

This paper provides a bibliometric analysis that investigates the landscape of research based on Social Exchange Theory (SET) within business and management areas. The primary purpose is to overview the insights on the evolution, current studies and its patterns in school of thought of literature around SET related with employee in the organization. The method the current study imply is using bibliometric analysis which focus on the searching the data through high index journals in Scopus from the year 2011 until 2024. Through a bibliometric analysis method, these databases will import from a dataset and act as secondary data source. The study is descriptive in nature. Therefore, the research design gathered from Scopus databases to view relevant studies related with Social Exchange Theory. The bibliometric analysis gathered 185 datasets to showcase the authorships, publication patterns and examining the trends of SET in business and management areas are essentials. Thus, thorough investigates the relevancy is important to contributes the needs of Social Exchange Theory to enable in providing further details on business context and assisting other researchers and practitioners on relevancy of this theory in business and management context.