Despite advances in recognizing women's influence in all spheres of life, society has not fully acknowledged women's role and influence in business. To address this gap, this review aims to map research on women's involvement in family firms (WIFF), the most common form of business entity worldwide, which appears to provide an enabling environment for women to act as leaders and entrepreneurs. First, through a systematic process, we select 225 papers identified from the Web of Science database and perform a bibliographic coupling analysis that explores the WIFF dataset with the support of clustering algorithms. The results of the review reveal five thematic clusters: (1) female entrepreneurs and family firms; (2) women in family-firm governance; (3) family–business dynamics; (4) women in business succession; and (5) temporal and spatial dimensions of women's involvement. Second, we supplement the bibliometric analysis with a review of the literature, which enhances understanding of the research topics and theoretical perspectives adopted, helping to develop an integrative framework and formulate new research questions that support the development of this promising field of research. Thus, this review provides a robust roadmap for further investigation of key issues in the field, which can help academics, policymakers and practitioners.

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绘制女性参与家族企业的地图：基于书目耦合分析的评论

尽管在承认女性在生活的各个领域的影响力方面取得了进展，但社会并没有完全承认女性在商业中的作用和影响力。为了解决这一差距，本次审查旨在绘制对女性参与家族企业 (WIFF) 的研究，这是全球最常见的商业实体形式，似乎为女性担任领导者和企业家提供了有利环境。首先，通过一个系统的过程，我们从 Web of Science 数据库中选择了 225 篇论文，并在聚类算法的支持下进行了探索 WIFF 数据集的书目耦合分析。审查结果揭示了五个主题集群：（1）女性企业家和家族企业；(2) 家族企业治理中的女性；(3) 家族企业动态；(4) 企业继承中的女性；(5) 女性参与的时间和空间维度。其次，我们通过对文献的回顾来补充文献计量分析，这增强了对所采用的研究主题和理论观点的理解，有助于开发一个综合框架并制定新的研究问题，以支持这一有前途的研究领域的发展。因此，本次审查为进一步研究该领域的关键问题提供了一个强有力的路线图，可以帮助学者、政策制定者和从业者。帮助开发一个综合框架并制定新的研究问题，以支持这一有前途的研究领域的发展。因此，本次审查为进一步研究该领域的关键问题提供了一个强有力的路线图，可以帮助学者、政策制定者和从业者。帮助开发一个综合框架并制定新的研究问题，以支持这一有前途的研究领域的发展。因此，本次审查为进一步研究该领域的关键问题提供了一个强有力的路线图，可以帮助学者、政策制定者和从业者。