A bibliometric analysis of knowledge-hiding and research organizations, 2012-2023

The purpose of this article is to analyze the evolution of research on knowledge-hiding, as we consider that this situation may be occurring more frequently than expected knowledge sharing in research organizations.The study identified that research has been migrating from Canada, the Netherlands and Norway (2012-2013) to Asian countries such as China, India and Pakistan in recent years (2018-2022). This evolution of understanding about hiding knowledge includes: the concept of "Knowledge Management " (2018); the relationship with "knowledge sharing " (2019); the analysis of factors within the hiding knowledge construct such as: "emotional exhaustion ", "organization identification ", "distrust in supervisor " (2020); "relational climate ", "competitive working environment ", "working place bulling ", "awareness " (2021); and "evasive knowledge hiding ", "creativity ", "diversity " (2022) among the most common terms used for the investigation of why knowledge is hidden in organizations.