The study of sustainability in administration: A research of the hot topics published in the last decade

摘要

The aim of this study was to examine publications on the topic of sustainability and to identify key areas of administration that are being studied with sustainability. The survey was conducted in the Web of Science database, searching to identify the main subject areas, authors, types of documents, titles of the sources, the year of the publications, institutions, funding agencies, countries and languages of these publications, as well as to discover the "hot topics" of administration when combined with the topic of sustainability. Data analysis was based on the calculations of h-b and m indexes of Banks (2006). According to the results of this study almost 73% of the publications are in article format (papers), among the authors with the highest number of publications there is no author that has an outstanding quantity of publications, the institution with the highest number of publications is the University Of British Columbia in Canada. Among the 20 institutions that have published the most about this subject, most institutions (11) and also the most significant in terms of total number of publications are North American totaling 1,173. As the number of institutions and the number of publications have demonstrated the bulk of publications are concentrated in the United States totaling 5,251. The English language is predominant as 96% of the publications are written in this language. Among the sources of the publications, the highlight was the Journal of Ecological Economics with 428 publications and the subject area that had the highest number of publications is environmental sciences. Among the 20 topics related to sustainability, the following were classified as "hot topics": management, production process, consumption, innovation, public management, business, stakeholders, and communication.