Executive Coaching and Organizational Performance – A Bibliometric Approach

The study examined from a bibliometric approach the published materials concerning executive coaching and the link with organizational performance from the last 5 years. There are almost no bibliometric analyses regarding the executive coaching topic and there is a need to have an overview of this topic to further analyze it. The research was performed using the bibliometric methodology and had as the main objective to gain an overview of the research literature on executive coaching and explore the study materials concerning the relationship between coaching and organizational performance. The analysis focused on the WoS Core Collection and revealed an elevated interest in research on executive coaching with a constant increase in the number of published materials every year. United States, UK and South Africa were the leading countries in the study of executive coaching. The study analyzed 250 sources and revealed that UK and Sout Africa published most of the materials on the subject. The affiliation analysis revealed that South Africa has the leading affiliation for the executive coaching topic. The study analyzed the basic biometric metrics as the structure of relevant sources, authors, affiliations and documents and also advanced analysis as clustering and thematic map. This bibliometric analysis can serve as an alternative approach for summarizing datasets on executive coaching topics, allowing for the mapping of existing knowledge and the identification of potential avenues for future research.