Purpose

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working (RW) has emerged as a viable alternative to working employees in general and knowledge workers in particular. However, previous researchers have worked on the concept, development and facilitation of RW since the 1970s. Therefore, this study aims to review the existing literature on RW to ascertain the evolution of the concept in the business and management domain and provide for requisite arguments to extend the settings for future research agendas.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors based this study on a bibliometric analysis of articles (n = 349) retrieved from the Web of Science database published between January 1990 and October 2021. The authors have used a bibliometric toolbox comprising performance analysis, science mapping and network analysis in various software namely, VOSviewer, Gephi and Biblioshiny package in R.

Findings

The study’s results accentuated important themes like work–life balance, strengthening digital infrastructure, performance and productivity, hybrid work models and well-being and clustered them under four heads with proposed future research questions.

Research limitations/implications

The study is based on a single database; the authors have used an extensive but not exhaustive list of keywords to retrieve the articles. The analysis employs certain threshold limits while using the science mapping technique.

Practical implications

This study would enable managers and academics to comprehensively understand remote work and offer logical implications to appreciate its nuances.

Originality/value

This study is unique as it recognizes the intellectual structure in the existing literature on RW and traces the advancements and exponential growth post-COVID-19. The authors recapitulated the literature as network analysis of the RW facilitation model comprising the antecedents, outcomes, mediators and moderators.

中文翻译：

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远程工作及其促进的细微差别：可视化知识结构并设定未来的研究议程

目的

在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行之后，远程工作 (RW) 已成为普通员工（尤其是知识型员工）的可行替代方案。然而，之前的研究人员自 20 世纪 70 年代以来一直致力于 RW 的概念、发展和促进。因此，本研究旨在回顾有关RW的现有文献，以确定概念在商业和管理领域的演变，并为扩展未来研究议程的设置提供必要的论据。

设计/方法论/途径

作者基于对 1990 年 1 月至 2021 年 10 月期间发表的 Web of Science 数据库中检索的文章 ( n = 349) 的文献计量分析进行了这项研究。作者在各种软件中使用了包含性能分析、科学图谱和网络分析的文献计量工具箱即R中的VOSviewer、Gephi和Biblioshiny包。

发现

该研究结果强调了工作与生活平衡、加强数字基础设施、绩效和生产力、混合工作模式和福祉等重要主题，并将它们分为四个主题，并提出了未来的研究问题。

研究局限性/影响

该研究基于单一数据库；作者使用了广泛但不详尽的关键字列表来检索文章。该分析在使用科学制图技术时采用了某些阈值限制。

实际影响

这项研究将使管理人员和学者能够全面了解远程工作，并提供逻辑含义以理解其细微差别。

原创性/价值

这项研究是独一无二的，因为它认识到有关 RW 的现有文献中的知识结构，并追踪了 COVID-19 后的进步和指数增长。作者将文献概括为 RW 促进模型的网络分析，包括前因、结果、中介和调节因素。