Gender Diversity in Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Directions

Elisabete Vieira, Mara Madaleno and Júlio Lobão
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Elisabete Vieira: GOVCOPP—Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, ISCA—Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração, Universidade de Aveiro, Rua Associação Humanitária dos Bombeiros Voluntários de Aveiro, 3810-902 Aveiro, Portugal
Mara Madaleno: GOVCOPP—Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, DEGEIT—Departamento de Economia, Gestão, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Júlio Lobão: School of Economics and Management, University of Porto, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal

IJFS, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: Gender diversity in management has become of increased interest to academics and researchers in the last decades since women and men have different personal and psychological characteristics that affect their decision-making process in management actions and leadership. A female presence has been under-represented on companies’ boards of directors, which affects management decisions and leadership style. This article aims to contribute to the analysis of gender diversity and leadership state of knowledge, conducting a bibliometric review of the existing literature. In this context, we analyze the evolutional research studies published in the Scopus digital library, considering a period of five years, from 2017 to 2021. We focus our analysis on the top 24 cited articles after a wider review of articles published relating to the explored topic (402 articles). Considering the bibliometric analysis done, we then present scrutiny of the state of knowledge on this subject, a summary of the existing gaps, and suggestions for future research.

Keywords: gender diversity; leadership; bibliometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F3 F41 F42 G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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