Scientometric Analysis of Research on Corporate Social Responsibility

Mario Morales-Parragué, Luis Araya-Castillo, Fidel Molina-Luque and Hugo Moraga-Flores
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Mario Morales-Parragué: Facultad de Economía, Gobierno y Comunicaciones, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago 8320000, Chile
Luis Araya-Castillo: Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago 7591538, Chile
Fidel Molina-Luque: Facultad de Educación, Psicología y Trabajo Social (GESEC-INDEST), Universidad de Lleida, 25003 Lleida, Spain
Hugo Moraga-Flores: Departamento de Contabilidad y Auditoría, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-22

Abstract: This work shows how Corporative Social Responsibility (CSR) has been filtering into different management areas, providing an insight into its evolution, and presenting literature reviews and efforts to incorporate conceptualisations and recommendations on its application. It can be understood through a scientometric and bibliometric analysis, using the WoS documents on the “Social Responsibility” concept in the “Business and Economics” category, analysing a total of 8728 papers up to the year 2020. In this work, CSR is associated with views from different fields of study in economics and business, highlighting diverse management fields; it seeks to explain the correlation between CSR and concepts from such fields of study, suggesting that there is a need to order and question the current understanding of CSR and show its relevance so it can be considered an area of specialisation within the management of businesses.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; CSR; stakeholders; management; scientometric analysis; VOSviewer (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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