Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance is a subject that has benefited from several studies aimed at clearly identifying the multiple facets of this relationship and reflecting the particular attention paid to this research topic. This study is therefore a bibliometric analysis of research on corporate social responsibility and financial performance, based on articles published between 2010 and 2024 in the Scopus database. Vosviewer and Biblioshiny were used to carry out this bibliometric analysis on a sample of 2,503 English-language publications. In this respect, we determined the most relevant authors, countries and journals, as well as the network of keyword co-occurrences and the research trends characterizing our theme, thus making it possible to identify future directions and the elements to be rethought in future research in order to adapt and align with variations in the economic situation and the challenges of incorporating socially responsible behaviour into the profitability and sustainability of companies.