Review of Business Location Research: a Bibliometric Analysis from 1968 to 2022

Abstract

This research presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of academic research published on the topic of business location during the period from 1968 to 2022. Specifically, it seeks to identify, from a longitudinal perspective over time, the relationships between past and current topics, as well as to predict emerging trends in this field of research. The analysis has been conducted using SciMAT software, through which strategic diagrams and thematic networks based on the co-occurrence of keywords are obtained. A total of 509 documents from 1138 authors and 1799 keyword clusters have been processed. The results show that the main topics within the area of business location in the last five years are “Foreign direct investment”, “Perspective”, “Growth” and “Decisions”.