Female entrepreneurial leadership factors

Sofia Aparisi-Torrijo () and Gabriela Ribes-Giner
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Sofia Aparisi-Torrijo: Universitat Politècnica de València
Gabriela Ribes-Giner: Universitat Politècnica de València

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2022, vol. 18, issue 4, No 14, 1707-1737

Abstract: Abstract This article presents the foundations, current structure and trend of academic research into leadership factors in female entrepreneurship to provide scholars in the field with an overview of the followed research directions and to explore whether the same traditional patterns are reproduced in gender studies on entrepreneurship and leadership. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of the Web of Science database from 2000 to 2020 was used. With a performance analysis of variables (e.g. authors, publications, journals and countries), and thanks to scientific mapping, the links among these variables were studied. The results show that the trend of publications increased from 2015, but with little influence and output. The most influential and productive countries are the USA and Spain. 35% of the journals are based in the USA and 25% in England. The most influential ones deal with entrepreneurship, business, management and leadership. Although the foundational base is influenced by the author Ahl, known for calling for new research directions related to women entrepreneurs from a social construction perspective, the most influential articles continue to investigate gender with a dominant male bias. The network analysis reveals cooperation between different countries and authors with the USA dominating. The ambiguity of entrepreneurial leadership field due to the overlap of entrepreneurship and leadership disciplines reveals through the co-citation of journals different specialisation areas: business and entrepreneurship, management and psychology, organisational behaviour. This work provides researchers with an overview that encourages them to overcome the dominant male normative lens from new epistemological perspectives.

Keywords: Female Entrepreneurial Leadership; Bibliometric analysis; Gender; Entrepreneurial leadership factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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