Swot Methodology: A State-of-the-Art Review for the Past, A Framework for the Future
Journal Title: Journal of Business Economics and Management - Year 2011, Vol 12, Issue 1
Abstract
The SWOT analysis is the process of exploring the internal and external environments of an organization and extracting convenient strategies based on its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This paper presents a literature review of SWOT analysis, based on a reference bank of about 557 papers established through searching various databases. This paper reviews papers that have been published up to the end of 2009. The origination and historical development of SWOT are explained first, followed by a survey on trends & classifications in SWOT papers including journals, countries, years, people & contents. Then a categorical analysis is conducted about application area and scope of SWOT. Also a methodological development of SWOT is discussed. Finally, concluding remarks and a few suggestions and challenges are presented for future studies. It is hoped that the paper can serve the needs of researchers and practitioners for easy references of SWOT studies and applications, and hence promote SWOT future development.
Authors and Affiliations
Sepehr Ghazinoory, Mansoureh Abdia, Mandana Azadegan-Mehr
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