Purpose

Considering the swift adoption of innovative sustainability practices in businesses to accomplish sustainable development goals (SDGs), research on corporate sustainability has increased significantly over the years. This research intends to analyze the published literature, emphasizing the existing, emerging and future research directions on achieving the SDGs through corporate sustainability.

Design/methodology/approach

This research analyzed the growing trends in corporate sustainability by incorporating 2,038 Scopus articles published between 1999 and 2022 using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling, bibliometrics and qualitative content analysis techniques. The bibliometric data were analyzed using performance and science mapping. Thereafter, topic modeling and content analysis uncovered the topics included under the corporate sustainability umbrella.

Findings

The findings indicate that investigation into corporate sustainability has considerably increased from 2015 to date. Additionally, the majority of studies on corporate sustainability are from the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Germany. Besides, the USA has the most collaboration in terms of co-authorship. S. Schaltegger was considered the most productive author. However, P. Bansal was ranked as the top author based on a co-citation analysis of authors. Further, bibliometric data were evaluated to analyze leading publications, journals and institutions. Besides, keyword co-occurrence analysis, topic modeling and content analysis highlighted the theoretical underpinnings and new patterns and provided directions for further research.

Originality/value

This study demonstrates various existing and emerging themes in corporate sustainability, which have various repercussions for academicians and organizations. This research also examines the lagging themes in the current domain.

中文翻译：

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通过企业可持续发展实现可持续发展目标（SDG）：基于主题建模的文献计量分析方法

目的

考虑到企业迅速采用创新的可持续发展实践来实现可持续发展目标（SDG），多年来对企业可持续发展的研究显着增加。本研究旨在分析已发表的文献，强调通过企业可持续发展实现可持续发展目标的现有、新兴和未来的研究方向。

设计/方法论/途径

该研究利用潜在狄利克雷分配 (LDA) 主题建模、文献计量学和定性内容分析技术，纳入 1999 年至 2022 年期间发表的 2,038 篇 Scopus 文章，分析了企业可持续发展的增长趋势。使用性能和科学图谱分析文献计量数据。此后，主题建模和内容分析揭示了企业可持续发展保护伞下包含的主题。

发现

调查结果表明，自 2015 年至今，对企业可持续发展的调查大幅增加。此外，大多数关于企业可持续发展的研究来自美国、英国和德国。此外，美国在合着方面的合作最多。S. Schaltegger 被认为是最多产的作家。然而，根据作者的共被引分析，P. Bansal 被列为顶级作者。此外，还对文献计量数据进行了评估，以分析领先的出版物、期刊和机构。此外，关键词共现分析、主题建模和内容分析突出了理论基础和新模式，为进一步研究提供了方向。

原创性/价值

这项研究展示了企业可持续发展的各种现有和新兴主题，这对学者和组织产生了不同的影响。这项研究还探讨了当前领域的滞后主题。