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Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis
This study conducts a comprehensive literature review of articles on the triple bottom line (TBL) published from January 1997 to September 2018 to provide significant insights and support to guide further discussion. There were three booms in TBL publications, occurring in 2003, 2011, and 2015, and...
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author | Tseng, Ming-Lang Chang, Chia-Hao Lin, Chun-Wei Remen Wu, Kuo-Jui Chen, Qing Xia, Li Xue, Bing |
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description | This study conducts a comprehensive literature review of articles on the triple bottom line (TBL) published from January 1997 to September 2018 to provide significant insights and support to guide further discussion. There were three booms in TBL publications, occurring in 2003, 2011, and 2015, and many articles attempt to address the issue of sustainability by employing the TBL. This literature analysis includes 720, 132, and 58 articles from the Web of Science (WOS), Inspec, and Scopus databases, respectively, and reveals the gaps in existing research. To discover the barriers and points of overlap, these articles are categorized into six aspects of the TBL: economic, environmental, social, operations, technology, and engineering. Examining the top 3 journals in terms of published articles on each aspect reveals the research trends and gaps. The findings provide solid evidence confirming the argument that the TBL as currently defined is insufficient to cover the entire concept of sustainability. The social and engineering aspects still require more discussion to support the linkage of the TBL and to reinforce its theoretical basis. Additionally, to discover the gaps in the data sources, theories applied, methods adopted, and types of contributions, this article summarizes 82 highly cited articles covering each aspect. This article offers theoretical insights by identifying the top contributing countries, institutions, authors, keyword networks, and authorship networks to encourage scholars to push the current discussion further forward, and it provides practical insights to bridge the gap between theory and practice for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of improvements. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11356-020-09284-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-74238692020-08-19 Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis Tseng, Ming-Lang Chang, Chia-Hao Lin, Chun-Wei Remen Wu, Kuo-Jui Chen, Qing Xia, Li Xue, Bing Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Review Article This study conducts a comprehensive literature review of articles on the triple bottom line (TBL) published from January 1997 to September 2018 to provide significant insights and support to guide further discussion. There were three booms in TBL publications, occurring in 2003, 2011, and 2015, and many articles attempt to address the issue of sustainability by employing the TBL. This literature analysis includes 720, 132, and 58 articles from the Web of Science (WOS), Inspec, and Scopus databases, respectively, and reveals the gaps in existing research. To discover the barriers and points of overlap, these articles are categorized into six aspects of the TBL: economic, environmental, social, operations, technology, and engineering. Examining the top 3 journals in terms of published articles on each aspect reveals the research trends and gaps. The findings provide solid evidence confirming the argument that the TBL as currently defined is insufficient to cover the entire concept of sustainability. The social and engineering aspects still require more discussion to support the linkage of the TBL and to reinforce its theoretical basis. Additionally, to discover the gaps in the data sources, theories applied, methods adopted, and types of contributions, this article summarizes 82 highly cited articles covering each aspect. This article offers theoretical insights by identifying the top contributing countries, institutions, authors, keyword networks, and authorship networks to encourage scholars to push the current discussion further forward, and it provides practical insights to bridge the gap between theory and practice for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of improvements. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11356-020-09284-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-22 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7423869/ /pubmed/32572746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09284-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Tseng, Ming-Lang Chang, Chia-Hao Lin, Chun-Wei Remen Wu, Kuo-Jui Chen, Qing Xia, Li Xue, Bing Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title | Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title_full | Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title_fullStr | Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title_short | Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
title_sort | future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7423869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32572746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09284-0 |
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