Authors:
Pingye Tian
;
Qing Yang
and
Yingxin Bi
Affiliation:
School of Economics and Management, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China
Keyword(s):
Product Development Project, CiteSpace, Research Hotspots, Visual Analysis.
Abstract:
CiteSpace is used to do the visualization analysis to all the product development project literature collected in SCI-E and SSCI, with which time and space distribution, collaborative network of authors, collaborative network of institutions, co-cited journal, co-occurrence keyword knowledge maps are made to reveal the space distribution, hot topics and development trends in the field of product development project. The study results show that: American, Germany and British scholars have led this field, some Chinese scholars also produce lots of results. Hot topics includes the performance and success factors of product development, innovation management, system modelling and knowledge management of development organization. The result can promote theoretical development of the product development, which will help scholars to determine trends and direction. This paper also provides guidance and reference for firms to achieve good practice in product development.