Abstract
The research literature on diversity in the discipline of management has been configured through a great number of articles over the past few decades. This chapter analyzes how it has been constituted on the basis of different intellectual frameworks, references, authors, topics, and journals. For this aim, the authors utilized bibliometrics techniques, from co-occurrence to mapping, to analyze published articles in significant journals. They offer a great variety of groundings and are related to concepts approaching the topic, such as performance, corporate governance, or corporate resource responsibility. This chapter presents how these elements relate and which ones are important to the literature. It also shows how this relevant coverage of the diversity gives the opportunity to delve into some of the analyses which are understudied and try new-still-not-covered angles and issues in future research.
TopBackground
Research literature has paid attention to diversity in management for decades and experienced a significant growth over the last 15 years. (Ragins & Gonzalez, 2003) referred to three different initial streams of research that pointed to women in management, organizational demography, and identity and intergroup relations. After the interest in demographic trends, some authors suggested to move from affirmative action and assimilation to managing diversity (Cox & Blake, 1991). During this time, many conceptualizations (e.g., dissimilarity, dispersion, heterogeneity, difference) and dimensions (e.g., age, tenure, gender, race, education, experience, function, personality, status) have been conceived (Roberson et al., 2017).
Different topics have been studied in this realm and corporate governance seems to be depicting a key context for them. That is the case of the presence of studies on women in the boardroom (Adams & Ferreira, 2009; Conyon & Mallin, 1997; Daily et al., 1999; Daily & Dalton, 2003; de Cabo et al., 2011; Simpson et al., 2010; Singh et al., 2008), corporate social responsibility (Adams & Ferreira, 2009; Harjoto et al., 2015; Hyun et al., 2016; Seto-Pamies, 2015; Shaukat et al., 2016; Yasser et al., 2017) or gender quotas (Gabaldon et al., 2016; Mateos de Cabo et al., 2021; Terjesen & Sealy, 2016). Also, the presence of publications in journals related to Ethics may suggest other topics or frameworks to support diversity.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Knowledge Mapping: Technique used in bibliometric analyses that it is utilized to visualize relationships among authors, topics, journals, etc.
Co-Occurrence: The fact of appearing at the same time.
Co-Citation: The fact of being cited by same scientific document.
Bibliometric Analysis: Set of techniques utilized to understand the structure of research literature on a certain topic in terms of authors, topics, journals, and references.