Future trends and guidance for the triple bottom line and sustainability: a data driven bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT: This study conducts a comprehensive literature review of articles on the triple bottom line (TBL) published from January 1997 to September 2018 to provide significant insights and support to guide further discussion. There were three booms in TBL publications, occurring in 2003, 2011, and 2015, and many articles attempt to address the issue of sustainability by employing the TBL. This literature analysis includes 720, 132, and 58 articles from the Web of Science (WOS), Inspec, and Scopus databases, respectively, and reveals the gaps in existing research. To discover the barriers and points of overlap, these articles are categorized into six aspects of the TBL: economic, environmental, social, operations, technology, and engineering. Examining the top 3 journals in terms of published articl

SUBMITTER: Tseng ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature