Title: Sustainable innovation domain – a retrospective analysis of twenty years through scientometric technique

Authors: Santosh Satyanarayan Baheti; Usha Lenka

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, IIT-Roorkee, 247667, India ' Department of Management Studies, IIT-Roorkee, 247667, India

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to inspect the growth of sustainable innovation domain for the past two decades. We have conducted a systematic review and scientometric analysis of 1,271 articles during 2000 to 2019 through the analysis of citation, co-citation, co-word, co-author and bibliographic coupling. The cluster analysis result shows the citation pattern of authors, documents, journals, and institutes with productive research output. Through the in-depth analysis of literature, we have presented different theories and constructs of sustainable innovation domain. The relationship between sustainable innovation and company performance has received growing attention in research, yet a consensus remains elusive. This study organises the knowledge basis for sustainability challenges, new form of sustainable innovations, unsustainable business practices, and different strategies for sustainable business innovation.

Keywords: organisational innovation; organisational performance; systematic review; scientometric analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2025.148403

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2025 Vol.38 No.1, pp.33 - 52

Received: 21 Jun 2021
Accepted: 02 Jul 2022
Published online: 04 Sep 2025 *

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