Open innovation in banking: a bibliometric study

Design/methodology/approach: Using a set of bibliometric tools (VOSViewer and bibliometrix),
we review and analyse 96 documents bibliometric items, including citations, countries,
institutions, journals, authors, articles and topics. We show the co-authorship network and identify
the most productive authors and countries. We also individuate research streams and future areas
of research that are worth being investigated.
● Purpose: This paper aims to survey the literature on open innovation in banking over the period
2008-2024.
● Findings: Overall our results show that the two streams of literature on open innovation and
innovation in banking are not fully integrated, resulting in contributions in the area of banking that
present interesting case studies or discussion about open innovation in banking, but with a limited
reference to the theoretical underpinnings of open innovation or to the evidence provided by the
literature specialised in open innovation in the field of management and organisational studies.
● Originality: This bibliometric review on open innovation in banking analyses previous literature
and investigates two streams of studies, i.e. banking and innovation literature to advocate
interdisciplinary.