Scientometric Analysis of Research on Corporate Social Responsibility

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.

Automated summary

This work illustrates how Corporative Social Responsibility (CSR) has permeated into various management areas, providing insight into its development. Through analysis of WoS documents, the study suggests that there is a need to organize and question the current understanding of CSR and demonstrate its relevance, so it can be considered as a specialized field within business management.