A systematic review of women's entrepreneurship and internationalization literature

Abstract

There has been an increased interest in women's entrepreneurship research due to the changing sociocultural conditions in the global marketplace. Despite this trend, there is still a lack of understanding about the role women entrepreneurs play in the internationalization process of firms. The aim of this article is to systematically review the literature on women's entrepreneurship and internationalization by examining the trends in the research. A bibliometric analysis is conducted on articles in the Web of Science databases to understand which researchers are publishing the most and how they are related to other researchers in the field. In addition, a content analysis of the articles from the bibliometric analysis is conducted that reveals three main clusters from the research: (a) epistemological position and gender, (b) cultural and social reasons for the creation of businesses, and (c) motivations, business characteristics, and performance. From the bibliometric and content analysis, implications for policy makers and future research directions for women's entrepreneurship and internationalization patterns are stated.

A bibliometric analysis of cash holdings literature: current status, development, and agenda for future research

“…First, this study employed a bibliometric type of analysis to evaluate the research development on cash holding as it is an effective method to address the research trends on a particular topic by exploring existing documents (Md Khudzari et al 2018 ; Shi and Li 2019 ). Second, following the systematic review method of Moreira et al ( 2019 ) to conduct a rigorous bibliometric and content analysis of several themes that emerge from keywords and citations clusters. To identify the intellectual structure of the research on board diversity, citation and co-citation analysis were performed using VoSviewer.…”

“…2 ). For the content analysis, this study follows the method of Moreira et al ( 2019 ) to identify the themes of content analysis. Four themes were subject to the content evaluation in cash holding primary output.…”

“…It should be noted that despite that the fact that these clusters address different aspects of cash holdings, they are highly interrelated and complement each other. Furthermore, following Moreira et al ( 2019 ), we pooled these clusters based on the topic covered by each study with reference to the cited articles over 3 per cluster. As a result, two main themes related to cash holdings emerged: corporate governance, the determinant of cash holdings.…”

“…This study has used the Scopus database for data mining. Many similar studies in various fields including management have been conducted using this database only (Drago and Aliberti 2019 ; Md Khudzari et al 2018 ; Moreira et al 2019 ; Yahaya et al 2020 ; Zheng and Kouwenberg 2019 ). It should be noted that Scopus data covers a wide range of subjects, and it is the most significant citation/abstract database (Md Khudzari et al 2018 ).…”

“…Our study departs from previous reviews studies by being the first to provide a combination of systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis on cash holdings, offering a complementary approach to the more traditional literature review. Such criteria are based on a previous systematic literature review (Kumar and Ranjani 2019 ; Moreira et al 2019 ; Baker et al 2020 ), and it has been proven to be useful to academicians in identifying the current research structure of the subject and will inform them about the evolution of the various themes in this area (Kumar et al 2020 ). This paper contributes to existing debates about determinants of cash holdings and suggest that country-level aspects exert a significant role determining the level of cash holdings.…”