This review focuses on the growing field of distrubuted work, made even more relevant in light of the current pandemic. Many different definitions, labels, and conceptualizations of distributed work exist, resulting in a fragmented field, threatened by a proliferation of concepts. Prior reviews addressed a limited scope of phenomena or review approaches; are narrative, subjective, or not systematic, lacking objectivity, comprehensiveness, and reproducibility; or are not recent. Our study advances the current overview of the field by presenting a compendious review of the development and current state of the field. We implemented three bibliometric approaches (i.e., co-citation, co-word and bibliographic coupling) and interpreted the results using the “invisible colleges” framework. This produced an integrative and holistic framework of the field of distributed work, portraying its historic development and theoretical background, conceptual space, and nomological net, guiding future research on this and connected research fields.

这篇评论侧重于不断发展的分布式工作领域，鉴于当前的流行病，分布式工作变得更加相关。分布式工作存在许多不同的定义、标签和概念化，导致一个支离破碎的领域，受到概念激增的威胁。先前的审查涉及有限范围的现象或审查方法；叙述性、主观性或不系统性，缺乏客观性、全面性和可再现性；或者不是最近的。我们的研究通过对该领域的发展和现状进行简要回顾来推进该领域的当前概况。我们实施了三种文献计量方法（即共引、共词和书目耦合），并使用“隐形学院”框架解释了结果。