Sustainable Business Models in Healthcare: A Scoping Review of the Quality and Quantity of Literature

Omar Rashdan () and Gábor Csepy
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Omar Rashdan: Corvinus University of Budapest
Gábor Csepy: Corvinus University of Budapest

A chapter in Sustainable Finance in the Green Economy, 2022, pp 167-176 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Purpose: In light that sustainable business models started gaining attention in academic literature in recent years, our work aims to identify, quantify, and qualitatively analyze research directions in peer-reviewed scientific literature focusing on sustainable business models in healthcare to date. Methods: A combination of systematic literature review methods and qualitative and quantitative content analysis tools was used to create out bibliometric review. Scopus and EBSCO databases were selected as a data source. Scimago ranking system was used to assess the quality of the journals. Results: In total, and after de-duplication, 146 articles were identified relevant. Keyword analysis resulted in (economics, commercial phenomena, telemedicine) as the highest used. Journals International Journal of Integrated Care and Journal of the American Pharmacists Association: JAPhA came out as top publishing journals in the field. The top cited article was “Biobankonomics: Developing a sustainable business model approach for the formation of a human tissue Biobank” which was written by Vaught J. et al. Top journal disciplines publishing in the field were medicine, health policy, and pharmacology. A percentage of 49 of published research was published in Q1 journals. Governmental perspective was dominant with 72% of the articles addressing a country-level action. Information technology field was the most researched topic with 33% of the articles addressing topics such as telemedicine and IoT interventions. Conclusions: The most influential articles, journals, and topics in the field were highlighted. More than two-thirds of the highest-quality articles addressed a governmental perspective rather than an industrial perspective. The field of research appears to be multidisciplinary which shows clearly in both the keyword and disciplines analysis.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Healthcare; Sustainability; Business models; SJR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81663-6_12

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