(A Review of Organizational Gossip: From Bibliometric Analysis to a Conceptual Framework and Future Research Directions)

Abstract

Purpose – The aim of this study is to evaluate the studies related to the management literature such as social anthropology, social psychology, sociology and especially organizational behavior, with the bibliometric analysis method and to guide the studies that will be directed towards the organizational gossip phenomenon in Turkish literature. Design/methodology/approach – The VOSwiever software was used to perform citation analysis, biblographic coupling, co-citation, co-occurrence analysis, co-autorship and bibliometric mapping method using bibliometric citation analysis on a sample of 681 articles, obtained from the Web of Science database. Influential journals, institutions, and trending articles in the gossip research are revealed published between 1990 and 2020. Findings – According to the results of the research, the most studied topics are social media, social network, corporate reputation, power, communication, trust, violence in the field of gossip and proactive behavior, organizational exclusion, corporate social responsibility, social capital, emotional regulation, negative emotions, cynicism, power, reputation, organizational deviation, organizational trust, mobbing, burnout, information seeking behavior in the field of organizational gossip. Discussion – Although there are studies that albeit significant progress to the literature on gossip, the studies for a holistic review of the subject within the scope of the organizational behavior literature remain insufficient. In this vein, future research directions claimed by the trending articles in the field, were examined of organizational gossip at the inter- organizational and organizational level is suggested.