A Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) Towards Corporate Sustainability in the Context of Triple Bottom Line

Abstract

Sustainability basically means to continue, to maintain anything. The equivalent of sustainability on a firm basis is expressed as corporate sustainability. Corporate sustainability has three dimensions: economic, social, and environmental. This study aimed to use the systematic literature network analysis (SLNA) method to evaluate corporate sustainability on triple bottom line (TBL). In this context, SLNA on the development and evolution of the corporate sustainability issue was carried out with 1929 studies obtained from the Scopus database. VOSviewer software tool was used for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks and Gephi software tool was used for network visualization. The studies on corporate sustainability, published in the period between 2016-2021, were mainly examined on the basis of year, journals, author details, keywords, and citation information parameters. This study is important as it is the first bibliometric study on corporate sustainability using SLNA.

What do We Know about Vision? A Sustainability Lens

“…Given that four authors are ranked according to both citation and co-citation rankings (Shamir, van Knippenberg, Kantabutra and Mumford), these four scholars have the highest impact within the organizational vision knowledge domain. Similar to the journal citation and co-citation analysis results, these authors are not well-identified in the sustainability sphere [49][50][51][52][53][54][55], except Kantabutra, who has continuously been identified by different scholars as a top scholar in the sustainability literature [20,46,[56][57][58].…”

“…Sustainability 2023, 15, x FOR PEER REVIEW 9 of 28 results, these authors are not well-identified in the sustainability sphere [49][50][51][52][53][54][55], except Kantabutra, who has continuously been identified by different scholars as a top scholar in the sustainability literature [20,46,[56][57][58].…”

“…With 18 documents, Kantabutra has dominated the body of knowledge on organizational vision. Endorsing the dominating status in the literature, he is also identified as a leading sustainability scholar in broader sustainability literature reviews, e.g., [20,46,[56][57][58]. The researcher continued reading all 22 documents, adopting the coding process to identify emerging themes and relationships among them.…”

“…With 18 documents, Kantabutra has dominated the body of knowledge on organizational vision. Endorsing the dominating status in the literature, he is also identified as a leading sustainability scholar in broader sustainability literature reviews, e.g., [20,46,[56][57][58].…”

“…The conclusion here is endorsed once again by the resulting four schools of thought on organizational vision. Among the top scholars in each school of thought, only Kantabutra is recognized in the sustainable development field in previous reviews [20,46,[56][57][58]. The rest is dominated by vision-based leadership scholars.…”