Global Research Trends in Change Management: A Bibliometric Evaluation in the VUCA World

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10.2991/978-94-6463-860-8_8How to use a DOI?

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Change Management; Sustainability; VUCA; Systematic Organisational Development; Competitive Organisational Culture

Abstract

VUCA acronym which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity describing the challenges and framework conditions that managers and companies have to overcome in the modern world. Organizational culture is regularly altered by the ways that globalization and technical developments have transformed networking and cross-cultural collaboration. The organizations are addressing necessary modifications to organizational processes, structures, and cultures by utilizing the change management approach. The objective of the research paper is to provide a comprehensive examination of the research trends in the organizational change management in VUCA world. The bibliometric analysis of the existing literatures on Change Management approaches in VUCA environments was carried out. The documents were gathered from the SCOPUS database and subjected to Biblioshiny analysis. The goal of the study is to examine the literature on change management strategies that organizations have implemented. The search was conducted using the keywords “Change Management”, “VUCA”, “Sustainability”, “Systematic Organizational Development”, or “Organisational Culture”. The documents were sourced exclusively from English-language journals and a total of fifty-eight (58) documents were used for analysis. The study is not restricted to any particular time period. Through change management in the VUCA environment, the research study improved knowledge of the thematic development of studies and research on the sustainability of the organizations.

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AU  - Rijumai Kalitha
AU  - Pankaj Sahu
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/09/29
TI  - Global Research Trends in Change Management: A Bibliometric Evaluation in the VUCA World
BT  - Proceedings of the International Research Conference on Resilience for Sustainability: Management Practices and Strategies for the Future (IRC 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 110
EP  - 117
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-860-8_8
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