Themes and Relationships on Corporate Social Responsibility: A Bibliometric Analysis of 10 Years

• Main Authors: Wu, Chia-Lien, 吳佳聯
• Other Authors: Wang, Tang-Ting
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g8396t

碩士 === 遠東科技大學 === 創新設計與創業管理研究所 === 106 === The purpose of this study was to identify the evolution of the intellectual structure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies. Bibliometric techniques, multivariate analysis, and social network analysis were used to trace the development path of CSR research. By analyzing 123,312 citations of 2,089 articles published in SSCI journals in the CSR area between 2007 and 2016, this study maps the intellectual structure of CSR studies. The results suggest that contemporary CSR research is organized in three different concentrations of interest: the relationship between CSR and financial performance, consumer responses to CSR initiatives, and institutional theory. Future CSR studies will probably continue to center on these topics. The results help to profile the invisible network of knowledge production in CSR and provide important insights and implications on current and future research directions of CSR studies for management scholars and practitioners.