Title: A bibliometric, networked, and density-based content analysis of corporate social responsibility

Authors: Ranjan Chaudhuri; Apoorva; Demetris Vrontis; Alkis Thrassou; Sheshadri Chatterjee

Addresses: De Vinci Higher Education, De Vinci Research Centre, EMLV Business School Paris, France ' TAPMI School of Business, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India ' GNOSIS: Mediterranean Institute for Management Science, School of Business, University of Nicosia, 2417, Nicosia, Cyprus; S P Jain School of Global Management, Singapore Campus, 119579, Singapore ' GNOSIS Mediterranean Institute for Management Science, School of Business, University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Avenue, CY-2417, P.O. Box 24005, CY-1700, Nicosia, EU, Cyprus ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, PIN: 721302, India

Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) models, from across the globe, have been constructed using various factors; including CSR dimensions, company credibility, CSR communication, CSR image, brand equity, and brand preference. Despite receiving much attention over the years, however, there lies a paucity of research that identifies paradigm shifts, future trends, emerging fields and prevalent research clusters in the CSR domain; a knowledge gap aimed to be filled by this research. The authors, through a quantitative systematic review, investigated 1,615 research publications in CSR from Scopus and Web of Science from 2000 to 2020. The results have been analysed using bibliometric software tools such as VantagePoint® through outputs such as (autocorrelation maps, bubble charts, and Aduna maps) and VOSviewer® outputs such as (network visualisation, overlay visualisation and density visualisation) to unveil the recent trend of CSR research.

Keywords: CSR literature; bibliographic-network; Aduna map; bubble map; alluvial diagram; governance.

DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2025.148359

Global Business and Economics Review, 2025 Vol.33 No.3/4, pp.394 - 422

Accepted: 29 Jan 2025
Published online: 02 Sep 2025 *

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