Artikel

Research streams in corporate social responsibility literature: a bibliometric analysis

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research is heterogeneous and still fragmented. In its interdisciplinary setting, researchers focus on different CSR aspects, secondary concepts and themes. The lack of a unifying paradigm indicates that the CSR literature should be summarized and classified. This study's systematic overview of CSR research provides such a classification. Previous conceptualizations of CSR research mapped the literature from individual authors' perspective, rendering different and partly inconsistent classifications. Using bibliometric methods, this paper offers an objective overview. We analyze the references of 1902 CSR journal articles by bibliometric techniques as (co-)citation, core/periphery, factor, and network analyses. By doing that, we provide an overview of the CSR research core, identify different research streams, describe their main publications' topics and recent developments, and make suggestions to inspire future research in and across research streams. Our results show the increased relevance of formerly niche research streams, such as employee-oriented CSR research, or research on consumer skepticism. Among others, process-oriented and micro-level research, critical approaches, and mergers between themes from various research fields offer a wide scope for further research.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Management Review Quarterly ; ISSN: 2198-1639 ; Volume: 73 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 231-261 ; Cham: Springer International Publishing

Klassifikation
Management
Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
Thema
Corporate social responsibility
CSR conceptualization
Research streams
Bibliometrics
Co-citation analysis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frerichs, Ilka Marie
Teichert, Thorsten
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer International Publishing
(wo)
Cham
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1007/s11301-021-00237-6
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Frerichs, Ilka Marie
  • Teichert, Thorsten
  • Springer International Publishing

Entstanden

  • 2021

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