Authors:
Saul Alfonso Esparza-Rodriguez
1
;
Gabino Garcia Tapia
2
;
Anibal Toscano-Hernández
3
and
Cesar Iriarte Rivas
1
Affiliations:
1
Business Programs Faculty, Arkansas State University, km 17.5 Estatal 100, Querétaro, Mexico
;
2
Facultad de Contaduría y Administración, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
;
3
Universidad Del Sinú, Córdoba, Colombia
Keyword(s):
Stakeholders, Management, Bibliometric Analysis, Social Sciences, Sustainability.
Abstract:
The study of sustainability in scientific literature represents a subject of interest for many authors, institutions, and countries, being considered as a complex subject given the multiple interactions among internal and stakeholders. In that matter, this research presents a bibliometric analysis in relation to stakeholder management focused on the subjects related to energy and sustainability to understand the state of the art in the field using data from Scopus database of published papers including a period considering the years 1994 to 2021. Thus, the first stage presents an analysis of general productivity by year, country, source, author, and affiliation, using descriptive measures related to the number of research units published, concentration indexes, and descriptive comparisons at different levels. Then, the work includes the analysis of the most influential articles in terms of citation levels for countries, affiliations, and authors, ending with a comparative analysis th
at considers proportional data. As a matter of conclusion, the present research shows that the state of the art in relation to stakeholder management focused on energy and sustainability is guided by subjects such as sustainable development, decision making, environmental management, climate change, environmental impact, economic and social effects.
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