CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, CRIMINALITY, AND VICTIMOLOGY IN INDIGENOUS MUNICIPALITIES OF MEXICO: A BIBLIOMETRIC AND VOSVIEWER NETWORK ANALYSIS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46121/pspc.54.2.20Keywords:
Corporate Governance, Criminality, Victimology, Indigenous Municipalities, Mexico, VOSviewer, Bibliometric Analysis, Corruption, Territorial Violence, Institutional Governance, Social Vulnerability, Structural Equation Modeling, Scientometric Networks, Organized Crime, Collective VictimizationAbstract
The objective of the present study was to analyze the intellectual structure of scientific literature concerning corporate governance, criminality, and victimology in indigenous municipalities of Mexico through bibliometric modeling and VOSviewer network analysis. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, exploratory, and correlational design was implemented using indexed scientific documents retrieved from Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, and Google Scholar between 2000 and 2025. The analytical strategy integrated co-occurrence analysis, bibliographic coupling, co-citation networks, structural equation modeling, and centrality estimation procedures. The variables included corporate governance, criminality, corruption, territorial exclusion, and victimology, operationalized through institutional, criminological, and social indicators derived from scientific literature and official economic databases. The results revealed strong conceptual and statistical relationships among governance deficits, organized crime, institutional fragility, and collective victimization in indigenous territories. Corruption and organized crime occupied dominant positions within the bibliometric network, functioning as intermediary nodes connecting governance studies with victimological literature. The VOSviewer trajectories demonstrated that institutional asymmetries, economic exclusion, and territorial violence are structurally associated with collective vulnerability and governance instability. The structural coefficients confirmed significant relationships between governance and criminality, as well as between criminality and victimology. The study contributes to governance theory by integrating scientometric analysis, criminological approaches, and territorial perspectives into a multidimensional explanatory framework. The findings suggest that effective governance in indigenous municipalities requires institutional transparency, territorial justice, social inclusion, and multidimensional public policy interventions capable of reducing corruption, organized crime, and collective victimization.
