Systematic literature review of human-machine collaboration in organizations using bibliometric analysis

Purpose - This study aims to systematically map the state of work on human-machine collaboration in organizations using bibliometric analysis.Design/methodology/approach- The authors used a systematic literature review to survey 111 articles on human-machine collaboration published in leading journals to categorize the theories used and to construct a framework of human-machine collaboration in organizations. A bibliometric analysis is applied to statistically evaluate the published materials and measure the influence of the publications using co-citation, coupling and keyword analyses.Findings - The results inform that the research on human-machine collaboration in the organizational field is targeted at four aspects: performance, innovation, human resource management and information technology (IT).Originality/value - This work is the first exploratory piece to assess the extent and depth of research on human-machine collaboration.