Abstract
Organization-wide utilization of big data requires a relevant governance process, which is big data governance. Big data governance is a complex process comprising business administrative activities such as IT capabilities building, IT governance and IT outsourcing and data management- and data analysis-related activities such as data governance, business intelligence, analytics and IoT. This study analyzes a citation network of articles of studies related to these activities and verifies the existence of a complex research area of big data governance.