Understanding the Links Between Neuroscience, Physiological Tools and Stress, with the Eventual Neuroscientific Impact of Culture, in Organizational, Managerial and Information Systems (IS) Fields Through a Social Network Analysis

This study aims to understand the links between neuroscience, physiological tools and stress, with the eventual neuroscientific impact of culture on the stress, in organizational, managerial and Information Systems (IS) fields through a social network analysis. It was conducted a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis by using one online database, such as Scopus. A dataset of 173 publications was analyzed through citation and co-citation analysis. Results of co-citation analysis shown the existence of a network of the 15 most cited sources and 2 topic clusters: the cluster of stress, work stress, of the effects of stressors, of the possible consequent physiological, cognitive and neurobiological responses with a consequent evaluation of a stress management training program in an organizational setting and the cluster of the study of events and conditions that influence decision-making processes to verify whether they are stressors, analyzed also from a neurobiological point of view, with particular emphasis, in some contributions, on events that can generate technostress. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting a comprehensive overview on the link between neuroscience, physiological tools and stress in organizational, managerial and IS fields and leads to further reflections on the use of information and communication technologies to obtain even more sophisticated and more predictive neuroscientific information of stress and, consequently, of individuals’ behaviors and on the possible neuroscientific impact of culture on the stress.