دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی تحقیقات مسئولیت اجتماعی شرکت در مجلات بین المللی کسب و کار - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to describe the development of research on corporate social responsibility in international business (IB) journals and to suggest future research directions. We conducted a bibliometric study of articles published in twelve leading international business journals over three decades in a longer time frame (1996–2015). Five research trends were found in IB journals: business ethics, integration of stakeholder management, the evolution of the CSR concept, the political and social demands of CSR, and the financial implications of CSR. Our results thus have several implications and suggest numerous opportunities for future research.

Conclusions and discussion

The results of this study provide an overview of the evolution of the knowledge structure of CSR in IB from a bibliometric perspective. First, five research trends in IB journals were found: the business ethics, the integration of stakeholder management, the evolution of the CSR concept, the political and social demand approach, and the financial implications of CSR. Second, although the research trends relating to CSR between 1995–2009 and 2010–2015 were very similar, a business ethics trend has appeared since 2010. Third, the research trends that were found for the IB and non-IB journals were very similar. The only difference was a research trend regarding Reputation and Sustainability Management in non-IB journals. Fourth, we also found several interesting results from our analysis of CSR studies in IB journals. Five of the major research subjects in the IB journals were not highly related to IB, and most exhibited moderate or low relationships to IB. The majority of the main authors were from business and management departments, and their degrees were also in business or management. Based on these results, we suggest several implications and opportunities for future research. The articles on CSR published in the top twelve international business (IB) journals and the relative ratio of CSR articles in IB journals have increased. It would be interesting to investigate the reasons why the relative ratio of CSR articles in IB journals increased and which IB subjects suffered a decrease in terms of the relative ratio of articles. Alternatively, the ratio of CSR articles in IB journals can be compared with those of other research subjects, including marketing, culture, strategy, and human resource management in IB journals. This future study will provide some clues as to the relative importance of subjects in IB and future directions for the research subjects.