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A bibliometric analysis of sustainability and organization’s performance

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The incorporation of sustainability into an organization’s performance is becoming an emerging topic to work upon. Moreover, conventional economic systems have had significant negative consequences for sustainable management, as well as imbalanced wealth distribution, which has resulted in natural catastrophes and population disparity. Sustainability practices in the current environment represent better quality performances and affect organizations’ performance. This research highlights the key areas and current evolution in the notion of sustainable development and organizational performance, as well as recommendations for further studies. Using the bibliometric analysis we examine a sample of 1442 articles published in Scopus between 1994 till 2021. The researcher identifies prominent authors, publications, and journals by employing a variety of network analysis techniques such as term co-occurrence, co-citation, and bibliography coupling with the help of VOS viewer. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no other study has examined bibliographic data on sustainability and organizations’ performance; hence, this research is a one-of-a-kind addition to the literature.

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