TY - JOUR
T1 - A bibliometric review of the leadership development field
T2 - How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed
AU - Vogel, Bernd
AU - Reichard, Becky
AU - Batistič, Sasa
AU - Cerne, Matej
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The development of leaders and leadership is a formative research area and a considerable industry in practice. Existing reviews are often restricted in scope or by subjective inclusion of topics or documents which limits integrative implications for the leader/ship development (LD) field. We address theoretical and methodological limitations by mapping the LD field with a comprehensive, objective, and integrative review. To do so we employed three bibliometric approaches, historiography, document co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and included 2,390 primary and 78,178 secondary documents. We show patterns in the evolution of the LD field, followed by four central observations about the current state and trends in LD. To shift the science and practice of LD we develop tangible suggestions for future research within the three research directions: (1) Pursuing research within the current framing of LD, (2) Striving for frame-breaking LD research, and (3) How We Can Get There – Transforming LD Research.
AB - The development of leaders and leadership is a formative research area and a considerable industry in practice. Existing reviews are often restricted in scope or by subjective inclusion of topics or documents which limits integrative implications for the leader/ship development (LD) field. We address theoretical and methodological limitations by mapping the LD field with a comprehensive, objective, and integrative review. To do so we employed three bibliometric approaches, historiography, document co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and included 2,390 primary and 78,178 secondary documents. We show patterns in the evolution of the LD field, followed by four central observations about the current state and trends in LD. To shift the science and practice of LD we develop tangible suggestions for future research within the three research directions: (1) Pursuing research within the current framing of LD, (2) Striving for frame-breaking LD research, and (3) How We Can Get There – Transforming LD Research.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Future research
KW - Leader development
KW - Leadership development
KW - Review
U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101381
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101381
M3 - Article
JO - Leadership Quarterly
JF - Leadership Quarterly
SN - 1048-9843
M1 - 101381
ER -