Job embeddedness in hospitality and tourism scholarship: Past, present, and future research agenda

Abstract

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of job embeddedness research in hospitality and tourism literature. Thus, it clarifies the fundamental research themes and phenomena, theoretical underpinning, and the most current research stream. Sixty-four documents on job embeddedness were obtained and tested by utilizing bibliometric analysis via VOSviewer and Biblioshiny in R software programming. Co-citation analysis demonstrated that job embeddedness is a research domain focusing on employee work engagement, retention, turnover intention, and the predictors of the phenomenon. Different theoretical bases can be adopted in different study areas, among which conservation of resources and social exchange have important roles. The bibliographic coupling and thematic evolutionary analysis of the documents clarify appealing trendy topics and provide several suggestions for further examination.