The purpose of this article is to present the intellectual and cognitive structure of the theme “Knowledge
Governance”. To achieve this goal, a bibliographic analysis was made based on information retrieval in the Scopus database
within the 20-year time period (2001-2019). 1,066 references were retrieved and, after a selection process, were limited to
915 documents. The conceptual basis for this work is based on the premise that the bibliographic references cited in scientific
articles can serve as an indicator of influence in the scientific communities that address a given theme, and can be considered
as the intellectual structure of this theme. On the other hand, the analysis of term co-occurrences (in the keywords) can give
clues about the cognitive structure, based on the association of terms that map knowledge subareas and provide
evolutionary trends of the studies. Thus the results obtained: a) visualization of the density; b) the co-occurrence network
of keywords; c) most central articles in a document collection network. This bibliometric approach makes it possible to
analyze large amounts of literature and is very useful for improving the understanding of a complex research topic. Future
developments of a literature review are pointed out that can be enriched with further research through content analysis.
Results can contribute to the development of both the theory and practice of research methods employed across the whole
field of Business and Management, particularly on Knowledge Governance implementation at Organizational and
Institutional levels. Combining different types of interactive visualizations can be a catalyst to perform a solid and useful
literature review. Making relations between different perspectives across the amount of scientific literature by using
visualization techniques can be a resource to build solid frameworks, both for theory and practice on Knowledge Governance
topic.