Author(s)

Jinsong Chen ¹, Xueying Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, 550025, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Corresponding Author

Jinsong Chen

ABSTRACT

As the turbulence and diversity of internal and external environments of organizations continue to increase, inclusive leadership, as a diversity management approach, has the characteristics of openness, accessibility, and availability, which can satisfy the diverse needs of organizational members and make full use of the diversity in order to achieve the sustainable development of the organization. In this paper, we take 1,332 English-language literatures from 2017-2025 in the Web of Science database as a research sample, and use the CiteSpace visualization tool to analyze the issuance, research hotspots, frontiers, and future trends of inclusive leadership.

KEYWORDS

Inclusive Leadership; Diversity; Research Hotspot; Citespace

CITE THIS PAPER

Jinsong Chen, Xueying Wang, A Review of Inclusive Leadership Research: A Citespace-Based Visualization and Analysis. Accounting and Corporate Management (2025) Vol. 7: 9-16. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/acccm.2025.070302.

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