Unlearning has evinced immense traction and opportunity in debates pertaining to organizational learning, innovation, management of change, knowledge management, and new product development, to name but a few. Provided the diversity and expansiveness of the phenomenon, past studies have undertaken both narrative and systematic reviews to synthesize the field of organizational unlearning (OU). Although highly commendable and enlightening, these scholarly efforts would be augmented by contemplating the share of leading management journals towards furthering the research on unlearning. Moreover, a systematic comprehension of the research themes of OU can be instrumental in representing the intellectual structure of the field. For this purpose, we undertake a combination of bibliometric and thematic analysis to identify critical trends that have helped shape unlearning research. The results discern the main scientific actors (articles, authors, journals, universities), research design, and dimensions of OU. In addition, eight clusters of unlearning along with underlying theoretical perspectives are analyzed, which may help scholars integrate the development of one domain to another, formulate pertinent research questions related to OU, and encourage interdisciplinary research.

Unlearning 在与组织学习、创新、变革管理、知识管理和新产品开发等相关的辩论中表现出巨大的吸引力和机会，仅举几例。鉴于这种现象的多样性和广泛性，过去的研究已经进行了叙述性和系统性审查，以综合组织学习 (OU) 领域。尽管值得高度赞扬和启发，但通过考虑领先的管理期刊在推动忘却研究方面的份额，这些学术努力将得到加强。此外，对 OU 研究主题的系统理解可以有助于代表该领域的知识结构。以此目的，我们结合文献计量和主题分析来确定有助于塑造忘却研究的关键趋势。结果识别出主要的科学参与者（文章、作者、期刊、大学）、研究设计和 OU 的维度。此外，还分析了八个遗忘集群以及潜在的理论观点，有助于学者将一个领域的发展整合到另一个领域，制定与 OU 相关的研究问题，并鼓励跨学科研究。