Ethics and Social Responsibility in Family Firms. Research Domain and Future Research Trends from a Bibliometric Perspective

Encarnación Ramos-Hidalgo, Manuel Orta-Pérez and Maria A. Agustí
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Encarnación Ramos-Hidalgo: Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Manuel Orta-Pérez: Departamento de Contabilidad y Economía Financiera, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Maria A. Agustí: Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-16

Abstract: Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics have been studied in a wide variety of business contexts, but the field of family business has mainly devoted attention to Corporate Social Responsibility, with less attention paid to the field of ethics. Being two closely related fields, they should be analyzed jointly in order to study the evolution of the field. To achieve this objective, we use two different bibliometric techniques, a co-word and a document coupling, as they are complementary and allow us to identify research topics and, therefore, to establish future research lines. Results show that the differences that exist between CSR in family businesses and CSR in non-family businesses continue to be a central focus, and that ethics should be found in the roots of that question. However, the underpinning factors and the linkage of the different CSR policies and ethical values to performance still require more attention. To be more precise, topics such as socio-emotional wealth, financial performance, ethics, firm, and management remain at the core of the field.

Keywords: CSR; ethics; family firm; bibliometric; co-word; coupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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