مجلة الإدارة والتنمية للبحوث والدراسات
Volume 15, Numéro 1, Pages 409-425
2026-06-01

Exploring The Role Of Legal Studies In Intangible Capital: A Bibliometric Analysis

Authors : Afia Kada . Datoussaid Aimad .

Abstract

This study aims to explore the trajectory of scholarly trends concerning the topic of the role of legal studies in intangible capital, in order to facilitate understanding of future directions in academic interest. A bibliometric and content analysis was conducted based on the PRISMA framework, supported by the VOSviewer software. The study examined all research published from 1981 to 2025, analyzing a set of 252 publications up to 2025, as documented in the Scopus database after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, along with manual verification. The study results revealed the predominance of developed countries in the first place, followed by emerging countries, while highlighting the absence of developing countries from the global scene, especially African nations, which are now facing the imperative of transitioning toward intangible capital and Innovation. The finding also indicate that the fields of entrepreneurship and management are the most active in studying this topic compared to other scientific discipline

Keywords

law ; intangible capital ; bibloimetric analysis ; intellectual capital ; legal studies