MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE LENS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: SOCIOMETRIC AND BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE AUTHORS

Abstract

This study aims to identify existing relational systems between prolific and most referenced authors in research on mergers and acquisitions through the lens of corporate governance at the international level. As for the methodological aspects, there was bibliometric and sociometric analysis of 103 papers in international journals of research ISI Web Knowledge and SCOPUS. The defined population for research consisted of publications that addressed in its title, abstract and keywords the terms "corporative governance" and "mergers and acquisitions", referring to sub-area "business management accounting", the years 1996 to 2013. Obtaining representative figures of the structure of the co-authors network and its indicators, it used the software UCINET® 6. It also formed the word cloud with abstracts of papers downloaded through WORDLE® program available online. As a result, it was observed that publications on the subject began to appear from 2004, and the 14 most prolific authors holds 38.83% of the total findings, it shows concentration of publications in a small group of authors. Under the sociometric analysis, it appears that there was a strengthening of co-authorship networks in the last nine years based on 2013. It is concluded that the discussion on the subject is distributed on small isolated groups of researchers who are affiliated to a number concentrate of US, Canadian and English educational institutions.