Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility and Profitability(Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk ve Karlılık Konulu Çalışmaların Bibliyometrik Analizi)

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to examine the subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and profitability with the bibliometric analysis method. Within the framework of this main purpose, this article contains 376 studies in SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, BKCI-S, BKCISSH, ESCI databases in chronology, discipline, source, center, country and citations. analyzed according to its parameters. The data set consists of articles in scientific journals published in the 1985-2021 period. In addition, information on articles on corporate social responsibility and profitability was taken from the Web of Science database electronically and transferred to the R program, and all calculations and operations for tables and graphics were carried out through the Rstudio program. According to the results of the analysis, it has been determined that the subject of corporate social responsibility and profitability is an area that has increased and developed significantly in the last ten years. The results obtained are important in terms of revealing the general situation of the studies on this subject.

Keywords

• bibliometric analysis
• corporate social responsibility
• profitability.