ShodhPatra: International Journal of Science and Humanities

Mapping Corporate Governance and Sustainability Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

The body of research on corporate governance and sustainability has grown significantly in the past 20 years. Fundamentally, corporate governance revolves around issues like what the purpose of business is, whose interests companies should serve, and how to do it. Broader topics that increasingly transcend the exclusive realms of corporate boardrooms include human rights, bribery and corruption, business ethics throughout entire value chains, and climate change. As a result, corporate governance and these broader societal issues have become increasingly integrated in Sustainability's work. The purpose of this study is to gain insights into growing literature regarding connection between corporate governance and sustainability. In this study total of 85 papers are considered from the Scopus database between 2011 and 2024. Through this bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer applying visualization and network analysis, it was found that the maximum number of researches is conducted on corporate governance and sustainable development, business ethics and ESG. Besides availability of plethora of research on corporate governance still many areas are left unexplored like board meetings, female directors etc. India is still lagging behind relating to the research in this particular field. The limitation of this study is that papers are only recorded from a single database and rest others were not included in this study leaving behind many aspects uncovered. Therefore, further methods for summarizing the literature analysis are required.