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Environmental Sustainability: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analysis of the Developments in Management, Business, Finance and Economics

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Soft Computing and Fuzzy Methodologies in Innovation Management and Sustainability

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The current needs in production of goods and services required to sustain the fast-growing population reveal unprecedented challenges bound to the way humankind relates to its surroundings. Developments in sustainability, understood as the field of knowledge focused on satisfying the needs of people without jeopardizing the resources of future generations play a significant role in this relation, moreover the systems designed for the transformation, consumption, strategic coordination, and allocation of resources are key to the achievement of sustainable goals. The present study conducts a bibliometric analysis designed to find core academic developments indexed in the Web of Science scientific database from 2010 to 2019. Results reveal leading authors, journals, organizations, countries, documents, and categories in the field of sustainable management, business, finance, and economics. The aim is to present trends, connections and networks using analytical and statistical tools based on a systematic detailed methodology. These bibliometric techniques have proven to be effective when analysing large numbers of scientific material, moreover the use of the VoSviewer bibliographic network map** allows a fast and visual representation of the retrieved core documents. This paper tries to shed light in the representation of the actual landscape of sustainability in business economics and the possible conformation of forthcoming contributions, collaborations, and the creation of synergies.

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Monge, R.G., Alfaro-García, V.G., Espitia-Moreno, I.C., García-Orozco, D., de Vivar Mercadillo, M.R.R. (2022). Environmental Sustainability: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analysis of the Developments in Management, Business, Finance and Economics. In: León-Castro, E., Blanco-Mesa, F., Alfaro-García, V., Gil-Lafuente, A.M., Merigó, J.M., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Soft Computing and Fuzzy Methodologies in Innovation Management and Sustainability. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96150-3_18

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