Abstract
AbstractBusiness Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is a premier journal dedicated to interdisciplinary research that advances business practice leading to improvements in environmental performance. Using big data analytics, this review examines the intellectual structure and the drivers of research impact of BSE in the scholarly domain. The bibliometric results suggest three major findings. First, the top three countries contributing to BSE are the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. Second, BSE's research manifests through five thematic clusters, namely, business strategy and sustainability; corporate governance and sustainability reporting; green marketing and pro‐environmental behavior; innovation and environmental policy; and environmental management systems. Finally, BSE's research impact in terms of citations is significantly influenced by author affiliation (United States); article age (older), appearance (lead article and special issue), length (longer), and method (mix methods); title length (shorter title); and number of keywords (more keywords) and references (more references). Implications for BSE's readers and future contributors are discussed.
Highlights
In the foreword of Business Strategy and the Environment's (BSE) inaugural issue, Faulkner (1992), a co-founder of the Business Council for Sustainable Development and a former minister in the Canadian government, highlighted that concern for the environment, environmental degradation, was one of the defining characteristics of the 20th century that has evolved and deepened over time
Building on the fundamental insights shed by Farrukh et al (2020) and Kabongo (2020), the present review extends those insights by focusing on the context and content of business strategy and environmental research published in BSE, including the journal's evolution and the drivers of its research impact in the field
This review has provided a retrospection on the intellectual structure and the drivers of research impact of BSE
Summary
In the foreword of Business Strategy and the Environment's (BSE) inaugural issue, Faulkner (1992), a co-founder of the Business Council for Sustainable Development and a former minister in the Canadian government, highlighted that concern for the environment, environmental degradation, was one of the defining characteristics of the 20th century that has evolved and deepened over time. Building on the fundamental insights shed by Farrukh et al (2020) and Kabongo (2020), the present review extends those insights by focusing on the context (e.g., country, industry, and method) and content (e.g., themes) of business strategy and environmental research published in BSE, including the journal's evolution and the drivers of its research impact in the field. The retrospective insights from this review should be useful for readers and potential contributors of BSE to gain an understanding about the intellectual structure and drivers of research impact of business strategy and environmental research in the journal. The ensuing agenda emerging from this review should be useful to the Editorial Board members of BSE, who can use the insights to curate and shape future discussions around the thematic clusters that characterizes the journal's contributions to the nexus of business strategy and environmental management.
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