Identification of research areas in fuel sales forecasting within the business ecosystem context: A review, theoretical synthesis, and extension

Abstract

Aim/purpose – This paper aims to explore both fuel sales forecasting and the business ecosystem, subsequently reversing the focus to examine the business ecosystem in the context of fuel sales forecasting. Accompanying this research objective are the following research questions: 1) Does the order in which the topics of “business ecosystems” and “fuel sales forecasting” are searched affect the search results? 2) Which keywords frequently co-occur in publications related to “business ecosystems” and “fuel sales forecasting”? 3) What is the relationship between the terms “fuel sales forecasting” and “business ecosystem”?

Keywords

• fuel sales forecasting
• business ecosystems
• hybrid literature review
• petroleum products
• q41
• l71
• c83
• m21
• o13