Mapping the Scholarly Research on Cooperative Corporation: A Bibliometric Analysis

The discussion of cooperatives is usually a less interesting discussion in management science because it tends to be socially oriented.But nowadays cooperatives are very likely to apply corporate principles in their operations.The purpose of this research is to find out how the corporatization of cooperatives in the development of scientific literacy.The method used to carry out literacy mapping uses Systematic Mapping Study and Bibliometric Analysis.These two methods are used to show the development of mapping in scientific publications related to the corporatization of cooperatives.The mapping results show that research on the corporatization of cooperatives is spread over 50 countries.In 2014 it had the highest citation of 323 citations.The number of keywords detected was 717, with close links to keywords regarding corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, cooperatives, and performance.