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Twenty‐eight years of business strategy and the environment research: A bibliometric analysis

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  • Muhammad Farrukh
  • Fanchen Meng
  • Yihua Wu
  • Kalsoom Nawaz

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The competitive academic climate of all the academic fields, including business strategy, puts great stress to publish. To effectively maneuver the field of business strategy and the environment, all the stakeholders, such as academicians and practitioners, must understand the current position of the theory and practice. A systematic bibliometric analysis of a top tier journal can serve this issue by providing a holistic view of the publications' trends and trajectories. This study analyzes the trend of publication in the Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) Journal since its inception in 1992 to 2019. The study uses two procedures to analyze the bibliometric data collected from the Scopus database. First, we use different aspects such as citation and publication structure to estimate the evolution of the BSE; second, we use VOS viewer software to visualize the mapping of BSE based on co‐citation, bibliographic coupling (BC), and co‐occurrence (CC). The results show a gradual increase in the citation and publication structure of the BSE. The increase in publications and citations indicates BSE's growing stature as a key academic outlet advancing knowledge in business strategy and environmental sustainability research. This study contributes to the literature by identifying the most influential aspects of the journal, which would help researchers to understand the trends and focus of the BSE.

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  • Muhammad Farrukh & Fanchen Meng & Yihua Wu & Kalsoom Nawaz, 2020. "Twenty‐eight years of business strategy and the environment research: A bibliometric analysis," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(6), pages 2572-2582, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:29:y:2020:i:6:p:2572-2582
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.2521
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