Article: DRMJ vol14 no01 2025 (Clanek 2)
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doi:10.17708/DRMJ.2025.v14n01a02
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Cultural intelligence has become crucial in organizational leadership due to increasingly intercultural business and work environments. This paper aims to advance the research field of leadership and cultural intelligence by revealing its past, present, and future. Science mapping of the intellectual and conceptual structure of the field was conducted using three bibliometric techniques: co‐citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co‐word analysis. Based on articles from the Web of Science database published from 2003 to 2023, we provided a systematic and focused bibliometric review of research on leadership and cultural intelligence in the last two decades. The findings indicate that the past of the research field has been connected with the theoretical foundations and empirical evidence on the influence of cultural intelligence on leader performance and effectiveness in intercultural settings. The present is focused on the role of cultural intelligence in transformational leadership and team leadership in global, virtual and culturally diverse environments. The future of the research field could be directed toward addressing the identified knowledge gaps related to inclusive leadership, employee well‐being, engagement and retention, and organizational cultural intelligence. The ultimate purpose of advancing the research field is to inspire the development and demonstration of cultural intelligence in leadership practice.
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23-38
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