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Collaboration in agile enterprises

Collaboration in agile enterprises is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1954. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on collaborative networks, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises, interpretive structural modeling, and workforce agility in the context of organizational and manufacturing environments. It explores the concepts, frameworks, attributes, and practical applications of collaborative networked organizations, as well as the strategic and technological imperatives for achieving agility in manufacturing enterprises.

  • Collaborative Networks
  • Agile Manufacturing
  • Virtual Enterprise
  • Interpretive Structural Model
  • Workforce Agility
  • Organizational Agility
  • Total Interpretive Structural Modeling
  • Enterprise Collaboration
  • Strategic Framework
  • Partner Selection
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+53%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Collaboration in agile enterprises

Which countries lead Collaboration in agile enterprises research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (760 and 414 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 760 works
  2. 2 India 414 works
  3. 3 United States 413 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 354 works
  5. 5 Germany 218 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 128 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 126 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 103 works
  9. 9 Poland 88 works
  10. 10 France 88 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 28.2%India: 15.4%United States: 15.4%Indonesia: 13.1%6 others listed: 27.9%28%largest
China760 · 28.2%India414 · 15.4%United States413 · 15.4%Indonesia354 · 13.1%6 others listed751 · 27.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Collaboration in agile enterprises research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Collaboration in agile enterprises research, followed by Binus University and University of Indonesia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 31 works
  2. 2 Binus UniversityIndonesia 29 works
  3. 3 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 18 works
  4. 4 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 16 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  6. 6 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 13 works
  7. 7 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 12 works
  8. 8 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 12 works
  9. 9 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 12 works
  10. 10 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Collaboration in agile enterprises?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Collaboration in agile enterprises include Kai You Wang and Arnold B. Bakker.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Collaboration in agile enterprises?

The most cited paper in Collaboration in agile enterprises is "Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams" (Sirkka L. Järvenpää, Dorothy E. Leidner, 1999), with 2,919 citations. Next come "Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review" (2,679) and "The Agile Supply Chain" (1,933).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams Sirkka L. Järvenpää, Dorothy E. Leidner · Organization Science Dec 1999 2,919
2 Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr · Information and Software Technology Review 18 Mar 2008 2,679
3 The Agile Supply Chain Martin G. Christopher · Industrial Marketing Management 2000 1,933
4 Is Anybody out There? Antecedents of Trust in Global Virtual Teams Sirkka L. Järvenpää, Kathleen Knoll, Dorothy E. Leidner · Journal of Management Information Systems Open access Mar 1998 1,915
5 Industry 4.0 and the current status as well as future prospects on logistics Erik Hofmann, Marco Rüsch · Computers in Industry 22 Apr 2017 1,852
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Collaboration in agile enterprises research done?

The largest centres of Collaboration in agile enterprises research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Shanghai (China) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Amman and Manila.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 118 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 82 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 47 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 45 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 39 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 39 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 38 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 37 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmmanJO · 22.8 works6.2×
  2. ManilaPH · 20.6 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Collaboration in agile enterprises than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Collaboration in agile enterprises?

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Universiti Sains Malaysia and University of Johannesburg score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 11.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…University of Johann…Universiti Sains Mal…Binus University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 72.023.5%7.4×16 +2.6%
2Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 64.418.2%4.3×11 +56.6%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 64.418.8%4.5×11 +29.9%
4Binus UniversityIndonesia 63.37.0%13.6×29 +363.1%
5Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 56.412.6%8.9×12 +107.2%
6Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 56.21.5%4.7×31 +6.6%
7Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 50.914.5%3.6×11 +275.7%
8University of IndonesiaIndonesia 47.78.5%3.8×18 +169.4%
9Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 45.45.7%15.1×10 +57.6%
10Aalborg UniversityDenmark 43.58.6%3.7×8 +56.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Collaboration in agile enterprises, country by country

Is Collaboration in agile enterprises research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 53% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Collaboration in agile enterprises.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Collaboration in agile enterprises as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Collaboration in agile enterprises0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Collaboration in agile enterprises over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Collaboration in agile enterprises10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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