Corporate governance: survey of scientific production in articles recovered from Scopus

Abstract

The research on corporate governance based on the pillars: transparency, equity, accountability and corporate responsibility, is based on the creation of a system for company management. In order to investigate the productivity of researchers in terms of temporality and number of authors, applying Lotka's Law (using the generalized reverse power model for direct and complete counting), the research is classified as descriptive, with a quantitative approach, the bibliographic analysis of national and international production was carried out in January 2020. The analysis on Scopus basis, with the search terms "corporate governance" OR "corporative governance" resulted in 23,167 publications, being the object of study only the articles (16,818). These data were retrieved in BibTeX format, program R (Bibliometrix package) and spreadsheet inserted to achieve the objective. The results show that the number of collaborators has grown continuously in recent years and that the configuration of two and three authors has become more frequent. The productivity of the researchers performed by direct counting (n = 0.75) is lower than the complete counting (n = 1.12), demonstrating a favorable effect for the collaboration regime.