مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد تمایلات و راهنمایی برای آینده در توسعه پایدار – وایلی 2018

This study aims to explore research and to identify research clusters on sustainable development by using bibliometric analysis. The sustainable development field is examined using the selected research articles. A co-citation unit is used to analyze the relationship between cited documents, and then science mapping is used to identify clusters in this relationship. The results show that there are four main distinct clusters, of which the most important concerns sustainable supply chains and logistics management. This cluster is then classified into five bunches of knowledge sources. These bunches illustrate the need for a trend in sustainability issues that includes a social dimension to balance economic and environmental dimensions for long-term development. There are logistics management and lean concepts that can be applied to sustainable development to move toward business sustainability. The future direction of sustainable business concerns economic values, environmental policy and stakeholder engagement for business opportunities. The contribution of this article is to identify trends in sustainable development by means of bibliometric analysis, to develop research in the future.

Introduction

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS DEFINED AS ‘MEET[ING] THE NEEDS OF A FIRM’S DIRECT AND INDIRECT STAKEHOLDERS WITHOUT compromising its ability to meet the needs of future stakeholders’ Brundtland (1987). The three pillars of sustainable development are economic, environmental and social aspects, which are collectively known as the triple bottom line (TBL). Elkington (1997) describes TBL as a sustainable perspective to balance economic, social and environmental performance, and to create value for profits, planet and people. Recently, sustainable development has played an important role in creating long-term benefits. For business investment to survive, decision makers should consider the environmental and social impacts, not only the economic benefits, of their business processes. The driven issues of business sustainability are economics value, environmental policy and stakeholder engagement. Environmental policy concerns the control of environmental management in order to prove the business section (Hills, 2002). The policy could link to environmental goals that fulfill the business missions (Ketola, 1997). The social dimension is a complex action relating to several criteria of human activity, such as moral, ethical and political dimensions that can measure sustainability at corporate level (Pawłowski, 2007; Santiteerakul et al., 2015). One business opportunity is stakeholder engagement (Moon, 2007). This is related to engagement of employees, customers, suppliers and communities that are affected for win–win outcomes (Boele et al., 2001). The stakeholder concept represents economic and social dimensions, while the product life cycle concept addresses the environmental dimension for performance measurement (Seuring et al., 2003).