The Present and Future Trends of Leadership Styles and Knowledge Hiding Through Science Mapping Analysis

This study investigates the scientific structure of leadership style on employee knowledge-hiding behaviour in organisation. Knowledge hiding is a counterproductive and negative behaviour that diminishes organisational progress and performance. This behaviour primarily occurs due to the type of leadership prevalent in the organisation. Employing a science mapping approach, this study discovers the link between knowledge-hiding behaviour and leadership style using bibliometric analysis. Bibliographic coupling depicts three themes associated with different leadership styles on knowledge hiding (clusters 1 and 2), the relationship between knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding (cluster 3), underpinning theories…