Author:
Hamide Özyürek
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration, OSTIM Technical University, OSTIM OSB, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
Keyword(s):
Green Accounting, Environmental Accounting, Green Business.
Abstract:
This study aims to conduct a comprehensive review of research on green accounting, environmental accounting and green business. The methodology employs advanced bibliometric techniques such as co-citation analysis, trend topics, thematic evolution. A total of 1603 documents from the Web of Science, spanning the period between 1991 and April 23, 2024, were screened and analyzed using R program. The findings revealed six thematic clusters: Social and environmental accounting, emergy, green business, green innovation, environmental accounting, and green accounting. The most cited authors are Boyd and Banzhaf, Cho and Patten, and Laufer. The findings indicates that the journals with the highest number of articles and citations in this field are Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Ecological Economics, and Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. When considering the number of articles and citations by country, China, the USA, and Italy emerge as the leading contributors.