Alkoud, S. and Qatamin, L. (2025) Global trends and future directions of virtual teams in the workplace: A bibliometric analysis. Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Management, Procurement and Law, 179(2), pp. 108-115. ISSN 1751-4304
Abstract
This study aims to offer a bibliometric analysis of the last three decades' worth of research on virtual teams in work settings (1990–2024). The study seeks to uncover theme clusters of virtual teams, current research trends, and knowledge foundations. Utilising co-authorship, co-occurrence, citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-citation analysis, the research uses bibliometric analysis. To find patterns and knowledge clusters, a total of 413 documents were taken out of the Scopus database and examined using VOSviewer. The research highlights five thematic clusters for virtual teams: digital entrepreneurship, leadership, collaborative working, workplace, and virtual teams. The study emphasises how virtual teams are becoming more and more common in work environments. The unique aspect of this work is the thorough analysis of virtual team studies that span more than 30 years, with a focus on the post-COVID-19 era. In addition to helping to identify knowledge gaps and suggesting future study objectives in areas like remote work, leadership in virtual environments, and the effect of cultural diversity on team dynamics, it offers insightful information on the development of virtual team research.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | business; hybrid; innovation and infrastructure; management; remote team; un SDG 8: decent work and economic growth; un SDG 9: industry; virtual team |
| Index terms: | economic growth, entrepreneurship, work environment, COVID-19, documents, virtual environment, coupling, virtual team, team dynamics, database, foundations, future study, becoming, bibliometric analysis |
| Subjects: | research evaluation and metrics, philosophical process, health risk and incident analysis, data management, information systems, systems engineering, management, virtual reality, structural engineering, research design and methodology, business, professional development, economic development |
| Topics: | Digital Applications, Sustainability, Information Management, Research Practice, Organizational Design, Health and Safety, Engineering Principles, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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