CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2020v18n32.7116Keywords:
social performance, financial performance, scientometrics, research trends, sustainabilityAbstract
This article presents a bibliometric analysis of 994 documents published during the period between 1973 and 2018. The objective was to identify authors, topics and classify in clusters the publications that relate the social and financial performance of companies. For this purpose, a quantitative systematic review of the information retrieved from Google Scholar, Dimensions, Scopus and Web of Science was carried out using the Publish or Perish and VOSviewer software. As a result, seven clusters were obtained: social responsibility and implications; environmental responsibility; communication and social and environmental reports; corporate social responsibility and financial performance; communication with the consumer; ethics, accounting and administrative tools; sustainability. In addition, it was found that the subject has generated more articles but these are less and less cited; that stakeholder theory predominates as the main axis of the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and financial performance; and that the documents come mainly from English-speaking countries, which at the same time are the ones that generate the most connections with each other in the citations of the articles.
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Buysse, K., & Verbeke, A. (2003). Proactive environmental strategies: A stakeholder management perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 24(5), 453-470. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.299
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Grönroos, C. (1984). A service quality model and its marketing implications. European Journal of Marketing, 18(4), 36-44.
He, Q. (1999). Knowledege Discovery Through Co-Word Analysis. Library Trends, 48(1), 133-159. Recuperado de: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/8267/librarytrendsv48i1i_opt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Hillman, A., & Keim, G. (2001). Shareholder value, stakeholder management, and social issues: what’s the bottom line? Strategic Management Journal, 22(2), 125-139.
Hirsch, J. (2005). An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(46), 16569-16572.
Jaén, M.; Auletta, N.; Bruni, J., & Pocaterra, M. (2018). Bibliometric analysis of indexed research on corporate social responsibility in Latin America (2000-2017). Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, 31(1), 105-135. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARLA-06-2017-0190
Lulewicz-Sas, A. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility in the Light of Management Science – Bibliometric Analysis. Procedia Engineering, 182, 412-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.03.124
Martínez, A.; Cabeza, L., & Marbella, F. (2013). Responsabilidad social corporativa y resultado financiero: evidencia sobre la doble dirección de la causalidad en el sector de las Cajas de Ahorros. Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa, 16(1), 56-68.
McWilliams, A., & Siegel, D. (2000). Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: correlation or misspecification? Strategic Management Journal, 21(5), 603-609.
Mingers, J., & Lipitakis, E. (2010). Counting the citations: A comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar in the field of business and management. Scientometrics, 85(2), 613-625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0270-0
Mitchell, R.; Agle, B., & Wood, D. (1997). Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: Defining the principle of who and what really counts. Academy of Management Review, 22(4), 853-886.
Orlitzky, M.; Schmidt, F., & Rynes, S. (2003). Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis. Organization studies, 24(3), 403-441.
Rao, P., & Holt, D. (2005). Do green supply chains lead to competitiveness and economic performance? International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 25(9), 898-916.
Ruiz, L.; Camargo, D. & Muñoz, N. (2020). Relación entre responsabilidad social empresarial y rentabilidad: una revisión de literatura. Encuentros, 18(02). https://doi.org/10.15665/encuen.v18i02.2406
Sen, S., & Bhattacharya, C. (2001). Does doing good always lead to doing better? Consumer reactions to corporate social responsibility. Journal of Marketing Research, 38(2), 225-243.
Sharma, S., & Vredenburg, H. (1998). Proactive corporate environmental strategy and the development of competitively valuable organizational capabilities. Strategic Management Journal, 19(8), 729-753.
Sikacz, H. (2017). CSR Reporting as an Object of Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Publications. Raportowanie CSR Jako Obiekt Analizy Bibliometrycznej Publikacji Naukowych, (474), 160.
Sidiropoulos, A.; Katsaros, D., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2007). Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks. Scientometrics, 72(2), 253-280.
Waddock, S., & Graves, S. (1997). The corporate social performance–financial performance link. Strategic Management Journal, 18(4), 303-319.
Wang, Z.; Zhao, Y., & Wang, B. (2018). A bibliometric analysis of climate change adaptation based on massive research literature data. Journal of Cleaner Production, 199, 1072-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.183
Zhang, C. (2009). The e-index, complementing the h-index for excess citations. PLoS One, 4(5), e5429.
Zupic, I., & Cater, T. (2015). Bibliometric Methods in Management and Organization. Organizational Research Methods, 18(3), 429-472. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428114562629
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS. (2021). Criterio Libre, 18(32), 201-218. https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2020v18n32.7116
