Good morning together,
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you handle it? I'm considering a keyword analysis in my literature review on family businesses. I put almost 20 years of research together and took the keywords from the papers to analyse it. After making my bibliometric analysis, I saw that, for example, a family firm and a family business are used. In my opinion, these two words are the same. Can I combine them by renaming the business to a firm or vice versa?
Best Christian
Combining the terms "family business" and "family firm" into one term is acceptable in a literature review. While there may be some subtle differences in how these terms are used by different authors, they generally refer to the same concept: a business that is controlled and/or owned by a family. The decision to combine or rename terms should be based on the specific needs of your literature review and the goals of your analysis.
Hi,
in my experience, this kind of data cleaning is very common in bibliometrics and should do a lot to improve the quality of your data and findings. Regular author keywords (as opposed to terms from a thesaurus or uniform key word system) are not standardized, that is, authors are free to use whatever terms they prefer. All such steps should of course be fully documented and reported, ideally sharing the complete data for reproducibility. Unfortunately, as far as I know, even though this is a longstanding open issue, there is no existing automated system to do this work.
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