Business & Management Studies

What do we know about business strategy and environmental research? Insights from Business Strategy and the Environment

business strategy and environmental research

This review examines the intellectual structure and the drivers of research impact of the journal, Business Strategy and the Environment, in the scholarly domain.

Authors

Sachin Kumar Mangla, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Satish Kumar, Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; School of Business, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Riya Sureka, Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Weng Marc Lim, School of Business, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia; Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

Nisha Goyal, Department of Finance, Jain University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Summary

Business 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.

Published in: Business Strategy and the Environment

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