Corporate Governance and Risk Management: A Bibliometric Mapping for Future Research Agenda

The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 highlighted the significance of sound corporate governance mechanisms to tackle risks. Numerous extremities, insolvencies and the collapse of enterprises have brought forward the need for sound risk management, effective planning and control, and the necessity to re-evaluate the governance components. Considering this, the present study aims to critically review the theoretical development and evolution of corporate governance and risk management. To this end, a bibliometric analysis of 998 peer-reviewed research articles, extracted from the Scopus database, is undertaken. The review employs bibliometric methods, such as citation analysis and co-occurrence analysis in order to uncover intellectual developments in this area, identify the trend as well as the volume of publications, point out the most influential studies, authors and journals publishing in the domain, and highlight the emerging agendas for research.