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 Volume 12, Issue 7 (July 2025), Pages: 239-245

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 Original Research Paper

Transactional leadership in public sector organizations: A bibliometric analysis

 Author(s): 

 Udin Udin 1, *, Radyan Dananjoyo 1, Mohsin Shaikh 2

 Affiliation(s):

  1Department of Management, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  2Department of Business, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, India

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 * Corresponding Author. 

   Corresponding author's ORCID profile:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5491-9085

 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2025.07.024

 Abstract

In rapidly changing and dynamic environments, transactional leadership plays an essential role in achieving long-term success in public sector organizations. This leadership style emphasizes setting clear priorities and managing tasks to ensure that individual efforts align with organizational goals. This study aims to review the literature on transactional leadership from the past thirty years (1993–2023) through a bibliometric analysis of authorship, citations, countries, and publication sources. A total of 95 articles from the Scopus database are analyzed using VOSviewer software. The results show that, at the individual level, transactional leadership positively impacts job satisfaction, psychological empowerment, and employee performance. At the organizational level, it consistently enhances organizational commitment, culture, innovation, and performance.

 © 2025 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Transactional leadership, Public sector success, Organizational commitment, Employee performance, Bibliometric analysis

 Article history

 Received 20 November 2024, Received in revised form 24 March 2025, Accepted 28 June 2025

 Funding

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Innovation and Research Center of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta for our research. 

 Acknowledgment

No Acknowledgment. 

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Udin U, Dananjoyo R, and Shaikh M (2025). Transactional leadership in public sector organizations: A bibliometric analysis. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 12(7): 239-245

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