CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LITERATURE DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR IN MEXICO: A PRISMA AND VOSVIEWER BIBLIOMETRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS

Abstract

The present study analyzed the scientific literature on corporate governance associated with the Mexican presidential administration from 2018 to 2024 through a bibliometric and scientometric approach integrating PRISMA protocols and VOSviewer network modeling. The objective was to identify the principal thematic clusters, semantic trajectories, conceptual interactions, and statistical relationships among governance constructs related to transparency, accountability, institutional legitimacy, anti-corruption governance, sustainability, stakeholder participation, and regulatory compliance. A quantitative, retrospective, non-experimental, and cross-sectional design was employed using indexed publications retrieved from Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, and Google Scholar databases. The final analytical corpus consisted of 742 scientific documents selected according to inclusion, exclusion, and ethical criteria. The VOSviewer model incorporated co-occurrence analysis, cluster density estimation, association-strength coefficients, modularity statistics, and centrality indicators to evaluate semantic interactions among governance descriptors.

The findings revealed six principal thematic clusters organized around transparency and accountability, state intervention and energy governance, anti-corruption governance, institutional legitimacy, sustainability governance, and regulatory compliance. Transparency and accountability exhibited the highest centrality and total link strength coefficients, functioning as the principal semantic axes of the bibliometric network. The resulting trajectories demonstrated strong multidirectional interactions among institutional legitimacy, stakeholder governance, sustainability indicators, and public oversight mechanisms. The modularity and density coefficients confirmed statistically significant clustering structures, supporting the hypothesis that governance literature during the analyzed administration evolved toward integrated and multidimensional analytical frameworks.

The study concludes that corporate governance research concerning Mexico between 2018 and 2024 reflects the transformation of governance theory into a complex interdisciplinary field integrating political authority, organizational accountability, sustainability governance, institutional trust, and stakeholder participation. The integration of PRISMA protocols and VOSviewer modeling additionally demonstrates the methodological utility of scientometric approaches for identifying latent semantic structures and thematic interactions within governance studies.