Corporate Citizenship: Structuring the Research Field

Alexander Kruggel, Victor Tiberius and Manuela Fabro
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Alexander Kruggel: Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Victor Tiberius: Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Manuela Fabro: Institute for Philosophy, History of Literature, Science & Technology, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-19

Abstract: Corporate citizenship, which is firms’ societal engagement beyond customer and shareholder interests, is a prominent topic in management practice and has led to extensive research. This increased interest resulted in a complex and fragmented scholarly literature. In order to structure and map the field quantitatively, we conducted a temporal analysis of publications and citations, an analysis of the productivity of involved disciplines, an analysis of the productivity of publication forms including journal impact factors, an author productivity and citation analysis, a co-author analysis, an article citation analysis, an article co-citation analysis, and a keyword co-occurrence analysis. Results of these bibliometric analyses show that corporate citizenship research seems to have been in a phase of stagnation since 2014 and shows a rather low degree of interdisciplinarity. Papers are predominantly published in high impact journals. Authors show little collaboration with other researchers. Current research relates to other business ethics topics, addresses philosophical foundations, and starts to relate to human resource management and organization studies.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; corporate citizenship; corporate social responsibility; CSR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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