A topic modeling-based analysis for the outcomes of psychological contract breaches and violations in organizations: Current research trends and future agenda

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the temporal trends of conceptualizations of psychological contract breaches and violations in organizations and their outcomes. Thus, it is envisaged to provide a deep insight into the related topic and to contribute to the elucidation of unexplored aspects by guiding a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual underlying phenomenon. In this study, the topic-modeling method, one of the text-mining methods, using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm was used to gain insights into the main topics on which studies on psychological contract breaches and violations were conducted. Within the framework of the purpose, this study reveals the topics belonging to the concept of psychological contract breaches and violations in organizations. In addition, the titles of these topics, the changes in the interest in these topics over the years, and especially during the COVID-19 outbreak, have been revealed. The ’findings of the study indicate that future research should focus on the affective outcomes of psychological contract breaches and violations in organizations. In addition, future studies can be conducted in which the topics that have reached research saturation in the current study are addressed together with the topics that need research attention.

Keywords

• Psychological contract
• Breach
• Violation
• Outcomes
• Topic-modeling
• LDA