Servant leadership and organisational performance: A bibliometric analysis

Servant leadership and its contribution to organizational goals are clinching acclaim, as manifested through the escalation in the number of documents, peculiarly over the last decennium, provoking compulsion for a healthier understanding in the relationships, interconnections, linkages, and overlaps in these research areas. In lieu of accruing power, servant leadership intensify on serving others which may stretch out to fellow employees, partners, customers, and community unconfined. This paper pursues the expected results by an exploration in the academic literature through a bibliometric analysis using Bibliometrix package of R and VosViewer visualization along with Sci Space for content analysis. This study propels light on the theoretical structure between the two research domains and their evolution, interaction, cluster identification, key word analysis, co-authorship, concurrence, bibliometric coupling, author impact, trend topics, world collaboration etc. There was a moderate involvement of continents and authors, who usually wrote in groups or alliances and in large groups with an escalation of publication in 2023. Leadership and Organisational Development Journal and Frontiers in Psychology published this area of research more frequently, and remarkable authors in this research domain are Liden RC and Van Dierendonck D. This study confirms the linkage between servant leadership and organisational performance through clustering and content analysis. Researches with inconsistent topics, distinct areas of research from various disciplines and vibrant in approaches are unveiled through this study. The results of the study emphasises that the two research domains (servant leadership and organisational performance) are progressing into exceptionally multidisciplinary in approach, with hybridised creative concepts.