Businesses’ Role in the Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda: A Bibliometric Analysis

María Garrido-Ruso, Beatriz Aibar-Guzmán and Albertina Paula Monteiro
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María Garrido-Ruso: Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Beatriz Aibar-Guzmán: Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Albertina Paula Monteiro: Porto Accounting and Business School, Polytechnic of Porto, 4465-004 Matosinhos, Portugal

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-35

Abstract: Companies worldwide can play a fundamental role in the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda. This paper aims to determine the scope of the existing literature about the role that organizations play in contributing to the advancement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A bibliometric analysis is conducted considering the papers specifically focused on SDGs and businesses published from 2015 to 2021 in journals indexed in the Scopus database. The analysis shows that approximately 80% of the studies on this topic have been published in the last three years. Moreover, only one journal ( Sustainability ) has published more than the 50% of the publications on the subject. The final sample is divided into 11 clusters that analyze different perspectives within the same research topic, and, in all these clusters, practically all of the papers have been published in the last two years, which confirms that this issue is increasing its presence in the academic world. This work extends the existing research on the subject, taking into account the publications of the last year, so it is an update on this “hot topic”. Moreover, it contributes to providing a reference frame of the state of the art of this research topic and can orientate researchers in the development of future studies

Keywords: Agenda 2030; sustainable development goals; business; private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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