The Effect of Leadership and Intellectual Capital on Organizational Performance

This research aims to provide an overview of thematic events and their impacts on organizational performance. The mapping of the theme under analysis was prepared based on a systematic literature review of 171 scientific articles published in several reference journals. Regarding methodology, two analyses were used. The first is a co-citation analysis, which allows the identification of the most cited authors, journals, and references within the theme. The second is the bibliographic coupling analysis, which allows the identification of clusters (1) leadership styles and organizational performance, (2) intellectual capital and organizational performance, and (3) organizational sustainability. This study contributes to the state of the art through a transversal vision of the timeline, providing an identification of the essential elements that influence the beginning of the exploration of the theme, a static vision of the present, and the definition of gaps that enable the structuring of future lines of research.