Becheş, Petrică DumitruMititean, PompeiAnghel, Lucian ClaudiuCatrina, Maria Manuela2025-10-282025-10-282025-07BECHEȘ, P. D., Mititean, P., Anghel, L. C., & Catrina, M. M. (2025). Exploring the Intersection of Professional Social Networks and Competitiveness: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, 19(1), p. 3107-3122. https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2025-02382558-9652https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2025-0238https://debdfdsi.snspa.ro/handle/123456789/1231This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, available at: https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/picbe-2025-0238?tab=preview The article was published by Petrica Dumitru Beches and Maria Manuela Catrina during their affiliation with SNSPA as PhD students.This study explores how professional social networks affect competitiveness using a bibliometric approach. The study uses data from the Web of Science database from 1998 to 2024 and a selection of 165 scholarly publications. The selection was made according to PRISMA guidelines for systematic literature review in 2020, while data analysis was done using Bibliometrix R package. The objective was to identify major research areas, spot new topics of interest, and chart the conceptual platform for this area by looking for co-citation, co-occurences from keywords, and thematic clusters. Early findings show how professional social networks help improve competitiveness by facilitating knowledge sharing, driving innovation diffusion, and generating strategic linkages. The clusters found were grouped into four broad categories: motor themes, basic themes, emerging themes, and niche themes, each described according to how they contribute to forming competitive advantage. This original comprehensive systematic review, to our knowledge, explores how professional social networks intersects with competitiveness, providing a sound groundwork for future studies.en-USProfessional networking platformsCompetitivenessLiterature analysisBibliometric methodologyPRISMA 2020 protocolArticle