Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. A Bibliometric Analysis of Their Interrelations

Abstract

Traditional economic system has brought important negative implications regarding environmental development, as well as an unequal distribution of wealth, which has led to ecological disasters and population imbalances. Considering the existence of unequal opportunities and access to resources in a global economy, it would be relevant to study the interrelations between the concepts of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Global and multifactorial issues require the review of fieldworks and their connections. From this perspective, the present research aims to analyze the relationships between the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in order to understand the advances of current scientific production and future lines of research. In this way, there is a considerable increase of interest in this line of research, highlighting García-Sánchez as the most productive author, Business, Management and Accounting as the most studied topic, and Sustainability Switzerland as the most productive journal. The country with the most publications and citations is the United States, and the most productive institution is Universidad de Salamanca. Future lines of research should focus on the social dimension and its possibilities in the field of Circular Economy. Finally, a line of research is proposed that also includes the proposals from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The Inter-Relationship between CSR, Inclusive Leadership and Employee Creativity: A Case of the Banking Sector

“…The available literature on ethics makes it evident that the ethical context of an organization is related to positive employee behavior. In recent years, CSR has emerged as an important business imperative for all segments [31]. Of more relevance, scholars have argued that employees' CSR perception of their organization is positively linked with their creative capability [32,33].…”

The Main Research Characteristics of the Development of the Concept of the Circular Economy Concept: A Global Analysis and the Future Agenda

“…We used the VOSwiever tool (Sedighi, 2016;Gálvez-Sánchez et al, 2021;Meseguer-Sánchez et al, 2021) to generate network maps for each of the variables used, allowing us to group and process words.…”

Thirteen years of Operations Management Research (OMR) journal: a bibliometric analysis and future research directions

“…These novel technologies prompt dramatic disruptions in the manufacturing and business practices: management style, business environment, marketing, labor market, competition environment, and customer behavior (Maresova et al 2018;Moll and Yigitbasioglu 2019). Accordingly, several studies are carried to explore and investigate the potential opportunities and challenges in different knowledge domains in the fourth industrial revolution era such as: Economy (Goryachikh et al 2020); Sustainability and Accounting (Meseguer-Sánchez et al 2021); Industrial performance (Dalenogare et al 2018); Business practices (Maresova et al 2018) and Industrial practices (Zhang and Chen 2020). Nevertheless, OMR traces shy attempts in this knowledge area.…”