Date of Publication :5th November 2024

Abstract:The glass ceiling, which refers to the invisible barriers that women face when rising to the top of an organization, has been the subject of much research. However, another hidden form of gender discrimination, called the "glass cliff," confronts women executives who somehow manage to break through the glass ceiling. According to the Glass Cliff, men are usually preferred as executive candidates in successful and rising organizations, while women are usually chosen to lead in organizations with a high probability of failing and declining. The purpose of this study is to draw attention to the glass cliff problem, which is seen as an application of gender discrimination.It also aims to identify the general state of research on the topic. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of publications on the glass cliff issue in the Scopus database, which is actively used by researchers from many countries all over the world, has been conducted. For the identification of publications on the glass cliff, keywords were selected from the "search within" section of the Scopus website and publications were scanned by entering "glass and cliff" in the "search documents" section. Therefore, only publications with the keyword "glass cliff" were identified in Scopus, according to the purpose of the research. As a result of the search, a total of 77 publications were found in Scopus with the term "glass cliff". According to the study resul ts, the first publication in Scopus was in 1961, but the second in 1973 after a long interval of 12 years. The regular publication of at least one paper on the topic every year started only after 2011. Most of the research on this topic comes from the United States (27). The highest number of publications on this topic came from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (10) and the University of Exeter (10). Consequently, the fact that only 77 publi cations on the topic were published between 1963, the date of the first publication in Scopus, and today (August 2024) shows that interest in glass cliffs is quite low. In addition, 73 out of the 77 publications (94.8%) have been made between 2011 and 2024 (up to August), when the publications have been made on a regular basis, at least once a year. This shows that interest in the topic increased after 2011, but not enough..

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