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Papers

(The median citation count of Gender in Management is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Forced or voluntary reluctance or voluntary preference to work? Women in hotel industry: evidence from Sri Lanka	51
Empowering women: navigating work environment challenges with mental toughness	37
Re-visiting women’s work motivations and career needs: international evidence from the perspective of self-determination theory	30
Doing business against gendered stigma: skilled female migrants in Hong Kong’s cross-border insurance business	27
Exploring the nexus between microlevel and contextual influencers on women leaders’ paradox mindset	25
Tussle of identities: Indian women engineers on work–family conflict	23
“If your voice isn't accepted, does it mean you stop talking?” Exploring a woman leader’s reversal of postfeminist confidence discourses	22
Girls’ and young women’s leader identity development: a scoping review	20
Gender and leadership evaluations: what happens if we actually measure expectations–behavior incongruence?	20
Progressing gender equity in senior leadership: a systematic literature review	20
Labour attitudes towards gender equity in Spain: the role of education throughout an economic cycle	19
Does the presence of three or more female directors associate with corporate recognition?	18
Organizational resistance through organizing principles: the case of gender equality in the military	18
Digital identities of female founders and crowdfunding performance: an exploration based on the LDA topic model	16
Blood is thicker than water: an analysis of women’s presence on Pakistani boards	15
Retaining U.S. stem women faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the important role of family-supportive supervisor behaviors to lower work-to-life conflict	14
Enhancing employee work engagement through organizational identification, gender and leader social dominance orientation	14
Taking action in the first five years to increase career equality: the impact of professional relationships on young women’s advancement	14
Cooperative organizational cultures: a factor promoting equal gender representation in leadership	14
Audit committee and CSR disclosure: does the gender diversity of audit committee members matter?	13
Work–family conflict and behavioral outcomes of Chinese female leaders: the mechanisms of work–family guilt and family centrality	12
Working mothers in East and West Germany: a cluster analysis using a three-stage approach	12
Fostering digital innovation among female managers: the interplay of psychological capital, gender equality policies, and leader-member exchange	12
Gender diversity of board of directors and shareholders: Machine learning exploration during COVID-19	12
Corporate governance, gender diversity and risk-taking behaviour of banks in an emerging economy – some empirical evidence from Ghana	12

Gender differences in executive compensation in Spain	12
Power, gender and identification with sexual harassment victims	11
Glass ceiling in Nigeria’s banking sector: perspectives of senior male employees	11
Gender of firm leadership and environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting: evidence from banks listed on Ghana Stock Exchange	11
How can the double bias of mistakes block organizational intelligence? Gender and position analysis	11
Reflections on women’s progress into leadership in the UK and suggested areas for future research	11
Development and validation of the InEquality in organisations Scale (InE-S): a measure based on Acker’s inequality regimes	10
Brain drain in microfinance institutions: the role of gender and organizational factors	10
Top management team gender diversity and the financial performance of Vietnamese SMEs: family and non-family owned firms	10
Think manager – Think male or female: exploring the content of gendered stereotypes of the managerial role among undergraduate business students in Ireland over a 10-year period	10
How do institutional environment and entrepreneurial cognition drive female and male entrepreneurship from a configuration perspective?	10
Shedding light on the gender quota law debate: board members’ profiles before and after legally binding quotas in Portugal	10
Female chairs on the boards of European National Sports Federations: a comparative study	9
Gender, external financing and firm performance: evidence from Chinese private firms	9
Challenges and considerations for building executive presence in North American female professionals of Asian descent	9
A study on barriers to women’s leadership in India through ISM	9
The influence mechanism of women’s entrepreneurial self-identity on entrepreneurial well-being: evidence from China	9
Career agency and person-environment fit: female globally mobile employees in Japan	9
Jordanian women expatriates: additional challenges for global equality	9
Influence of task-related diversity of R&D employees on the development of organisational innovations: a gender perspective	9
“I can, I’m doing, but I’m unfit, a tentative approach towards entrepreneurial regret”	9
Female CEOs and default risk in listed family firms	8
Glass ceiling and its impact on work performance: a study of IT industry in India	8
A gender-specific view on entrepreneurial recovery – effects on and responses of micro-entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	8
Predictors of subjective career success amongst women employees: moderating role of perceived organizational support and marital status	8
Managerial stereotypes over time: the rise of feminine leadership	8
Unpacking the presence of women as HR directors: organisational factors from MNCs subsidiaries operating in Canada	8
The influence of personality and team-member exchange on creativity: a gendered approach	8
Examining women leaders’ identity conflict in a low gender egalitarian culture: a study of female corporate sector leaders in Pakistan	8
Did the Arab Spring change female emancipation perceptions?	8
A gender-oriented analysis of digital skills and ICT use intensity in tourism companies in Extremadura (Spain)	8
Pandemic silver lining: how the COVID-19 pandemic helped women to beat the “gender stereotypes pandemic” in entrepreneurship	7
Board Gender Diversity and Cost of Debt: Do Firm Size and Industry type matter?	7
The influence of protean attitude for women in STEM careers: coping-self efficacy as foundational and strong career identity as outcome	7
The moderating role of women directors in politically connected companies on the performance of Liberian companies	7
Gender and risk – do public listing and private ownership bank matter?	7
Embracing a rubber rice bowl: women’s transition from paid work to self-employed entrepreneurship in coastal China	7
Challenging gender norms: women’s leadership, political authority, and autonomy	7
Gender, diversity and the 2020 US presidential election: towards an androgynous presidential profile?	7
Impact of board gender diversity on performance of public sector vis-à-vis private sector banks in India	7
Does employees’ gender matter? Investigating the indirect effect of abusive supervision on employee creativity through job insecurity in Indonesia	6
Does gender diversity on the board reduce agency cost? Evidence from Pakistan	6
Determinants of Iberian companies’ performance: corporate boards and the nonlinearity of gender diversity	6
Why do multi-child mothers suffer from employment exclusion? Analysis based on Chinese women’s evidence	6
The gender diversity–performance linkage at the board of directors and the workforce levels: testing two competing curvilinear models	6
Addressing virtual work challenges through women’s innate compassionate managerial leadership behaviors: the case of Nigeria	6
Female executives and firm value: the moderating effect of co-CEO power gaps	6
Conceptualising feminist resistance in the postfeminist terrain	6
Occupational identity, work, psychological distress and gender in management: results from SALVEO study	6
Are work–life policies fair for a woman’s career? An Italian qualitative study of the backlash phenomenon	6

Unpacking the career transition process of returning women professionals in the Indian workplaces: a qualitative study	6
How women hold up half the sky? A configurational analysis of women’s political leadership participation?	6
CEO demographics and gender diversity in senior management in large Scandinavian firms	6
Navigating power and neoliberal logics: critical reflections on implementing gender equality plans in higher education institutions	5
Reimagining work but operating with a no off button: experiences of working mothers in India during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Do board gender diversity and remuneration impact earnings quality? Evidence from Spanish firms	5
Who wreaks more havoc? Gender and the detrimental effect of abusive supervision on interpersonal deviance	5
Female executives, corporate life cycle and strategy preference: an empirical study based on text analysis	5
Are firms with women executives better at surviving a crisis? Evidence from South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
“When The Crisis Becomes an Opportunity: The Role of Women in The post-Covid Organization”	5
Crafting gender into meaningful work: experiences of women engaging in social entrepreneurship in China	5
The role of gender diversity in shaping green collaborations and firm financial success	4
Does board diversity affect the cost of debt financing? Empirical evidence from Turkey	4
Nexus between financial inclusion and women empowerment: evidence from developing countries	4
To lead or not to lead: exploring how young women’s early career experiences impact their leadership ambition	4
Wage dispersion and sports performance: does gender matter?	4
Exploring female managers’ perceptions of the behavioral effectiveness of male managers: evidence from Kuwait	4
The balance between status quo and change when minorities try to access top ranks: a tale about women achieving professorship	4
Replicating a study of women and men in state government administration 30 years later	4
Dominance needs, gender, and leader emergence in self-managed work teams	4
The impact of differentiated empowering leadership on employees’ depression: moderation of employees’ envy and gender	4
Why are not men and women more alike? Gender and clawbacks in the trade-off between accrual and real activity earnings manipulation	4
Double jeopardy: the paradox and promise of coaching women leaders from a critical feminist perspective	4
The role of female managers in enhancing employee well-being: a path through workplace resources	4
Guest editorial: ‘Women’s career motivations – international challenges and perspectives’	4
Understanding the role of universities in fostering female entrepreneurship in the emerging ecosystem	4
Gender stereotypes of feminine and masculine school management and leadership: examination of traits and behaviours	4
Women as leaders: the glass ceiling effect on women’s leadership success in public bureaucracies	4
From the emancipated to the emancipator: an integrative perspective on women social entrepreneurs’ emancipation experiences	4
Gender of firm leadership, audit committee gender diversity and audit quality through the lens of audit fee: a Ghanaian insight	4
Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia	4
Global perspectives on gender diversity and business performance	3
Publisher’s note	3
Challenges of female executives' work activities: the hyper-efficiency operating mode	3
Female physicians in senior management positions during a crisis: a constructive multimodal communication framework of feminine leadership	3
Empowering vs empowered: factors shaping women’s workplace empowerment in the Qatari public sector	3
Shattering the sustainability barrier: impact of gender diversity on boards and ESG in shaping emissions	3
Does board gender diversity affect bank financial stability? Evidence from a transitional economy	3
Guest editorial: New perspectives on women’s entrepreneurship in China: identity negotiation, gender agency, and meaning-making	3
Exploring the path to job satisfaction among women in the Middle East: a contextual perspective	3
Implementing gender-based violence policies in the neoliberal university: challenges and contradictions	3
Impact of visual multimedia in improving entrepreneurial competence and economic self-efficacy among widowed women farmers	3
Gender diversity in corporate governance: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda	3
Closing the gender wage gap in the boardroom: the role of compliance with governance codes	3
Do female directors of companies appoint audit firms with women in high-level positions?	3
Exploring how institutionalized patriarchy relates to career outcomes among African women: evidence from Nigeria	3
Desire to work with woman manager: interplay between sexism and organizational culture	3
Triple-strength model of female auditors empowerment in Iran	3
The importance of a critical mass of women on boards to reduce the gender pay disparity among non-executive directors	3
Board gender diversity and corporate litigation: evidence from China	3
Tales of challenge and resolution: narratives of women middle managers in the South African public service	3
Juxtaposed between hypervisibility and invisibility: The case of the hijab in Pakistan	3
National culture favouring gender equality, supervisor gender and supportive behaviours towards employees	3