Bibliometric Insights into Leadership Skills and Their Influence on Diverse Team Performance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53555/jaes.v21i3.52Keywords:
Leadership competencies, Team diversity, Bibliometric review, Co-citation, Scientific mapping, Literature analysisAbstract
Purpose:
This research employs a thorough bibliometric analysis to study the evolving context of leadership competencies in managing heterogeneous teams. By examining scholarly works from the past twenty years, this study provides insight into how scholars have investigated the significance of leadership skills in team diversity. Thematic mapping, bibliographic coupling, co-citation analysis, and performance evaluation are important analytical techniques.
Design/methodology/approach:
The Scopus database was the source of 176 academic publications in all. The study performed an exhaustive evaluation of performance and topic clustering using bibliometric tools like VOS viewer. To comprehend the field's intellectual structure, metrics like publishing trends, prominent authors and organizations, high-impact journals, keyword co-occurrence, and international research collaborations were looked at.
Findings:
The United States and the University of Iowa emerged as the top contributors to the highest research output in 2024. The International Journal of Organizational Behavior has been determined to be the most productive, and the Journal of Management was found to be the most influential. Research on diverse mindsets and meta-analyses on team design are significant works that impacted the area. Significant fields of scholarly interest were highlighted by the identification of 19 thematic groupings.
Research implications:
By mapping existing trends and highlighting gaps in the literature on leadership in diverse teams, this study offers academics with useful recommendations. It also provides the groundwork for further research in this expanding field of study.
Originality/value:
This happens to be the first study, as far as the authors realize, to provide a bibliometric review that focuses exclusively on leadership abilities in relation to varied team performance.
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