Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze research trends on overseas business archives, compare them with domestic and related prior studies, and present the direction of the development of domestic business archives research. For the research analysis, bibliography from 493 papers was collected using four academic databases: Web of Science, Scopus, LISA (ProQuest), LISS (EBSCOhost). Following data collection, data analysis was conducted and focused on the publication status of related papers, major journals, research forms, and researcher information. In addition, unique words were extracted through the data processing of English abstracts, and the frequency of the key words was identified. Through topic modeling, this study extracted seven topics from the entire literature group, analyzed the publication trends of the papers corresponding to each topic, and examined the topics and representative papers of that topic. The names for these topics were assigned as “access and usability of business records',” “information/evidence value of business records,” “importance and operational strategy of business archives,” “record management as a business heritage,” “management of business records in digital environments,” “preservation and disposal of business records,” and “historical value of business records.” Based on the prior research and analysis results, this study proposed implications for the development and expansion of future research on the domestic business archives.