Categories of Themes in Strategic Graph
| Isolated themes Unconnected and developed themes. Here, we usually find themes with strong internal connections (high density) but poorly connected to other themes (low centrality), which would be the case of once principal themes and now of marginal relevance | Principal themes Interconnected and developed themes show high density (robust and internally coherent) and high centrality (highly related to others). These themes have concentrated the core of the research efforts and are essential to the topic at study |
| Dilemma themes Peripheral and undeveloped themes. Here, we find declining themes with low interest to researchers mixed up with emerging themes still to develop and showing little connection to other areas of study | Secondary themes Interconnected but undeveloped themes, show low density but high centrality. Themes in this quadrant are mentioned in numerous papers but research is in a basic stage given weak inner connections |
Source(s): Table by authors
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