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

Víctor Meseguer-Sánchez, Francisco Jesús Gálvez-Sánchez, Gabriel López-Martínez and Valentín Molina-Moreno
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Víctor Meseguer-Sánchez: International Chair of Social Responsibility, Catholic University of Murcia, 30107 Murcia, Spain
Francisco Jesús Gálvez-Sánchez: Department of Economic and Financial Studies, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
Gabriel López-Martínez: Department of Contemporary Humanities, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Valentín Molina-Moreno: Department of Management-1, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-18

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.

Keywords: sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Social Sustainability; Economic Sustainability; Environmental Sustainability; bibliometric (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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