A review of enterprise social media: visualization of landscape and evolution

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this review is to systematically understand the development of enterprise social media (ESM) research, quantitatively analyze the landscape and track the development of ESM literature and reveal new trends and challenges in ESM research.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on 321 relevant literature studies (2005–2020) collected from the Web of Science core collection, the visualization tool CiteSpace is used to conduct bibliometric cocitation and cooccurrence analyses to quantify and visualize the landscape and evolution of ESM research.

Findings

Through analyzing the author cocitation network, document cocitation network, journal cocitation network and keywords cooccurrence network, this review proposes an integrated research framework, which highlights major purposes, antecedents and consequences of ESM use in organizations and presents future research trends of ESM research.

Originality/value

Different from the existing qualitative review of ESM, this review adopts bibliometric review to quantify and visualize the landscape of ESM research.

Citation

Li, Y., Shi, S., Wu, Y. and Chen, Y. (2021), "A review of enterprise social media: visualization of landscape and evolution", Internet Research, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 1203-1235. https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-07-2020-0389