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SURVEYING THE LITERATURE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL GOVERNANCE INVESTMENTS: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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Priya, Kavita Sharma
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5.326

Abstract

The use of environmental, social, and governance variables in investment decisions is becoming more popular. This growing importance of ESG investments is driving the growth of literature in this area, which necessitates a review of all existing literature to determine future research possibilities. We noticed a scarcity of these review studies in the subject of Environmental, social, and governance investments, and to the best of our knowledge, there is most likely no bibliometric literature review study. Thus the current work tries to fill this gap by statistically analyzing the existing literature. Using the keywords "ESG" OR "ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL GOVERNANCE" AND "INVESTMENTS" OR "FUNDS," all articles published between 2010 and 2021 were extracted from the Scopus database. We obtained 530 publications in total, and after using some exclusion and filtration criteria, we were able to find 317 papers for our study. The current study used two quantitative analysis tools: R studio (biblioshiny) and VOS viewer for executing performance analysis and science mapping techniques of bibliometric review. This review paper elucidates current trends, dominating journals, prominent articles, well- known authors, and the networking between countries, articles, authors, and keywords of this domain. Finally, using thematic analysis, the study is possible to uncover some unexplored areas of research within this existing domain, thereby analyzing the scope for future research.

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