Introduction
Providing a global and objective image of the main lines of research, which has addressed the study of Corporate Social Responsibility, from its origins to the present, represents an ambitious challenge quite difficult to carry out if the applied methodological approach is not appropriately implemented. In this sense, it has been followed an approach parallel to that outlined by the seminal project headed by Diderot and d’Alembert during the eighteenth century when elaborating the first of all encyclopedias (Diderot and d’Alembert 1751). With an undeniable pedagogical and internationalist vocation, this magnificent work was characterized by reducing to its minimum expression all the phenomena included in each entry.
A bibliometric analysis has been the tool implemented chosen to synthesize the last 50 years of research focused on the field of Corporate Social Responsibility to give a...
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Martín Cervantes, P.A., Valls Martínez, M.d.C., Cruz Rambaud, S. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility: A Bibliometric Research. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1250-1
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