Women in international business : a systematic literature review

Goal of this thesis was to inspect women’s position in international business and factors that unequivocally and continuously impact further development of the status quo by performing a systematic literature review via bibliometric and content analysis. In pursuance of previous articles and reviews extraction, database of Web of Science was used. After thorough inspection of received articles and reviews, total of 103 publications were selected for bibliometric analysis and VOSviewer software warranted their visualisation. The result was creation of 5 clusters derived from authors’ key words co-occurrence. Each cluster revealed important features of the topic: effect of environment; gender differences; diversity and work-related travel; social, cultural, and national influences; women’s influence in the workplace in international business. In addition, content analysis of selected articles by means of 12 different categories was performed. Women around the world are finding ways to juggle and manage private lives with their professional ones, are still underrepresented in managerial positions, face glass-ceiling effect, and depend a lot on exterior situations and their close social circles. In order to gain more importance in the business environment, businesswomen need more ameliorated incentives and opportunities in order to close the gender gap. In the final section of the paper, seven future research streams are proposed, categorised by five researched clusters