Bibliometric analysis of publications on corporate social responsibility and COVID-19

T Kliestik,Ivanka Vasenska,Blagovesta Koyundzhiyska-Davidkova,Vladislav Krastev

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202112907007

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Research background: The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has affected to vary degrees the way of life of global society and the country’s economies. Subsequent social, economic, and political crises inevitably provoke part of the scientific community to focus their research interest, towards COVID-19 impact. The pandemic may have encouraged companies and policy makers to further revise the existing corporate social responsibility, apart from adjusting to the ongoing crisis and what is more to establish resilience for similar future shocks. Purpose of the article: The purpose of the current research is to perform bibliometric analyse on the scientific papers linking COVID-19 regarding the corporate social responsibility and to elaborate the basis for future research. The aim of the article was derived from the fact that so far there are limited if no research done on the topic. Methods: The main method applied in the current study is the bibliometric, which identified 186 relevant articles in the Web of Science and 172 in Scopus databases. The information resources of both databases were used in order to gain the databank required for the research by selecting the following keywords: “Social corporate responsibility” and “COVID-19”. The results have been visualised and analysed via VOSviewer. Findings & Value added: The findings include bibliometric analysis on the existing knowledge on corporate social responsibility during the COVID-19 crisis. The research can be used as a model for data analysis of similar type of research.

Highlights

Following three COVID-19 waves and enduring the forth wave, since the first officially reported by the Chinese government to the World Health Organization (WHO) (World Health Organization, 2021) on December 31, 2019, the world has already realized that the virus is a part of our daily life
Through ought the mentioned period, in the renowned databases Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus we have established respectively 5 259 and 4 772 which sum up to a total of 10 031 scientific publications on the topic related to corporate social responsibility (CSR)
The aim of this article was to systematize and analyse the existing literature on CSR as a main topic related to the current COVID-19 pandemic

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Introduction

Following three COVID-19 waves and enduring the forth wave, since the first officially reported by the Chinese government to the World Health Organization (WHO) (World Health Organization, 2021) on December 31, 2019, the world has already realized that the virus is a part of our daily life. Towards the end of 2019 and in the beginning of 2020 the world of the economy was severely disrupted by the unnatural disaster COVID-19 economic stakeholders has been struggling, trying to cope with the pandemic. The pandemic has clearly brought a historic public health crisis to the world, and its negative impacts directly extend to the global economy (Yu, et al, 2020). Scientists have observed that the COVID-19 has had negative impact on the private and public sectors, further putting organisations corporate social responsibility (CSR) significance to the test (He & Harris, 2020; Kramer, 2020; Lee, 2020). COVID-19 will reshape organizations perceptions and practices of CSR and may provoked them to develop a more strategic aspect of CSR

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