Return On Investment (ROI) for projects: A bibliometric study

• Autor(a) principal: Espírito Santo, Márcio Gerson Domingues de Ceita da Graça do
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/25997
• topic: ROI; ROI methodology; Research question; Return On Investment; Bibliometric study; Metodologia ROI; Questão de pesquisa; Retorno sobre o investimento; Estudo bibliométrico

This dissertation analyzes the maturity of the use of ROI to projects in academic papers. Bibliometric studies regarding the degree of maturity of the adoption of ROI methodologies in projects are insufficient. Applying the ROI methodology permits greater alignment with the business, identification of inefficient programs, informed decision-making, etc. The research question is: «How the scientific knowledge of “Return On Investment” is organized and developed during the last years? » To answer this question, an academic bibliometric study was developed with a sample of 42 papers from the Economic Sciences, in English and Portuguese. As a conclusion, the number of documents mentioning ROI in the past five years suffered a sudden decrease in 2019 for then to reach a peak in 2020, the USA is the country with most of ROI publications, and most papers are articles.