Bibliometric analysis of studies on "ethical leadership and sustainability" using a visual mapping technique

Abstract

This study aims to examine the academic studies in the literature where the concepts of "ethical leadership" and "sustainability" come together and to bibliometric analyze the scientific publications on this subject with the visual mapping technique. Ethical leadership and sustainability are of increasing importance in today's business world. This study uses bibliometric methods to understand better the connections and development of these two concepts in the literature. The scientific data used as the basis of the study was selected from the Web of Science (WOS) database. As a result of the search in Web of Sciences, 205 publications were reached, and it was seen that most of these publications were made in "2021" in the "article" type, in the "Environmental Sciences" category, in the "business economics" research area. Research data analyses were visualized with the VOS viewer program, and these analyses are presented as visual maps in the findings section.