Análise da Capacidade Absortiva no Campo do Turismo: Estudo Bibliométrico da Evolução Conceitual Teórica entre 1996 e 2021

• Autor(a) principal: de Lima, Anderson Antônio
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Thiago de Luca Sant'ana, Carvalho, Joana Rosa Cardoso, Costa, Benny Kramer, Mesquita, Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Marketing & Tourism Review
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/mtr/article/view/7654
• topic: Capacida absortiva; Turismo; Fontes externas de conhecimentos; Análise bibliométrica

Literature on absorptive capacity and related topics, such as knowledge sharing and transfer, has grown rapidly in several areas of knowledge. But this growth is still incipient in the field of tourism, even though it is a knowledge-based industry, which has processes for capturing information through interaction with the consumer, which makes it possible to share knowledge. From this, one can see the scarcity of studies on absorptive capacity, more specifically of studies that investigated the processes of acquisition, assimilation, transformation and exploitation of external knowledge in the field of tourism. The present study seeks to answer the following research question: how did the conceptual-theoretical evolution of the thematic absorptive capacity in the field of tourism occur in the period from 1996 to 2021, and what are the influences, existing currents and current fronts in the theoretical field, which study this theme? The study is carried out through a bibliometric analysis, as the use of this technique makes it possible to identify the development of a scientific field and reveals how its evolution has occurred over the years (Zupic & Cater, 2015). Among the five techniques of bibliometric analysis, the present study presents analysis of co-citation and bibliographic coupling, which are considered the main techniques of bibliometric analysis. We collected a sample of 273 scientific articles in the Web of Science (WoS) database on absorptive capacity in the field of tourism and, using the Vosviewer software, maps of co-citation and bibliographic coupling were performed. The main contribution of this study is exploratory. That is, in addition to mapping the theoretical-conceptual evolution, more specifically the main theoretical influences, existing theoretical currents and current theoretical fronts on the subject in the field of tourism, the study presents a starting point for future descriptive and causal studies, especially in the clusters formed in the bibliographic coupling map