A bibliometric review of corporate social sustainability
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https://doi.org/10.18583/umr.v3i2.118Keywords:
Social sustainability, corporate sustainability, bibliometric reviewAbstract
For the Greeks, integral development took place in the balanced interaction of “ocio” (reflection and cultivation of human well-being) and “nec-ocio” (non-leisure, paid activity). In response to the invitation in the Our Common Future Report, nations have committed themselves to the sustainable development of their organizations, seeking practices with a triple bottom line: economic, environmental and social development. The research on corporate sustainability in recent years has called for a return to “leisure” in “business”, that is, for a return to sustainability in terms of social welfare issues in administrative activity. The objective of this paper is to analyze corporate social sustainability from a critical review of the literature. The methodology was conceptual analysis supported by the use of bibliometric-hermeneutic techniques. The findings show that clean production is not limited to the environment but also involves social issues; social sustainability presents a multidisciplinary and diverse approach, bringing with it philosophical, conceptual and theoretical contradictions. In the corporate area there have been important contributions in recent decades, however, the approach to social issues has been under the bias of environmental and/or economic paradigms. Future lines of research are proposed and management implications as well as social implications are presented.
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