City University of London, England

Evolving Landscape of Sustainability Research in the Business and Management Literature: A Bibliometric Literature Review

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Abstract

This paper explores how the business and management research has addressed ‘sustainability’ by conducting a bibliometric review to provide comprehensive view of the literature. This paper analysed 25,737 sustainability-related papers published in ABS ranked journals, following the DNICT procedures consisting of five steps: data construction, network construction, initial analysis, cluster analysis, and text analysis. Results have shown that the field of sustainability research has grown exponentially and has become increasingly diverse in different academic disciplines. The result has identified the influential authors and main journals, together with 23 research streams including Corporate Social Responsibility, Operations & supply chain, Tourism, Transition, Consumption, Economic, Project management, Entrepreneurship, Circular economy, Competitive advantage, Development, Transportation, Governance, Education, Human resource management, Information management, Microfinance, Fiscal policy, Smart city, System thinking, Scheduling, Lean Six Sigma, and Sport. At the same time, emerging research trends, gaps in the literature, and future research direction, are suggested.

Biography

Sukrit Vinayavekhin is a PhD Fellow in Management at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London. He holds a MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture, and Management from the University of Cambridge and a BEng in Systems Innovation from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include sustainability, digital innovation, and strategic technology management. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Sukrit worked as a Faculty Lecturer of Operations and Innovation Management at Thammasat Business School in Thailand, and a Project Advisor (Strategy Consultant) at Hakuhodo Consulting Asia Pacific in Singapore. He has utilised design thinking, strategic roadmapping, social return on investment (SROI), and future foresight techniques to deliver consulting projects to leading companies across industries in the UK, Japan, and Thailand.