Sustainable vs circular business models in agribusiness: a comparative bibliometric analysis

Q3 Social Sciences

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1590/1806-9479.2023.275416

Barbara Lamolinara, Mário Sérgio Teixeira, Cristina Galamba Marreiros, Vítor Hugo dos Santos Ferreira

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Abstract Agribusiness is using several strategies to achieve sustainable development. The sustainable business models and the circular business models tools are adopted to turn agro-industrial waste into new sustainable products and business opportunities. Even if they are two different tools, the boundary between them is not strictly defined but quite flexible, making it difficult for researchers and stakeholders to discriminate among them. Helping to simplify the understanding of their boundaries, authors purpose to carry out a bibliometric comparative analysis between the sustainable business models and the circular business models in agribusiness. The study aims to underline their different and similar trends in literature. For the analysis, Bibliometrix R-Tool was used and the metadata of two databases (WoS and Scopus) were retrieved and merged. Biblioshiny was used to provide graphical outputs. Data from the two groups were compared in different analysis, such as keywords used, country’s research performance, annual scientific production, among others. It resulted that, although circular business models are more recent in comparison with sustainable business models, both present an increasing publication interest in literature and a similar geographical distribution interest about the issues. However, some interesting differences have been identified, such as the most frequent keywords plus and citation used, among others. These findings can help identify overall trends in circular and sustainable business models in agribusiness, and point out contrasting and common aspects, providing an overview about these research topics in academic literature over time. Additionally, this investigation provides clear outlines and helpful information to researchers, scholars, government managers, industry managers, and consultants.

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农业综合企业的可持续与循环商业模式:比较文献计量分析

农业综合企业采用多种策略来实现可持续发展。采用可持续商业模式和循环商业模式工具，将农工废弃物转化为新的可持续产品和商业机会。即使它们是两种不同的工具，它们之间的边界也不是严格定义的，而是相当灵活的，这使得研究人员和利益相关者很难区分它们。为了简化对其边界的理解，作者旨在对农业综合企业的可持续商业模式和循环商业模式进行文献计量学比较分析。这项研究旨在强调他们在文学上的不同和相似的趋势。采用Bibliometrix R-Tool进行分析，检索并合并WoS和Scopus两个数据库的元数据。Biblioshiny用于提供图形输出。两组的数据在不同的分析中进行了比较，例如使用的关键词、国家的研究表现、年度科学产出等。结果表明，尽管与可持续商业模式相比，循环商业模式是最近才出现的，但两者都表现出对文献的出版兴趣和对这些问题的类似地理分布兴趣。然而，我们发现了一些有趣的差异，比如最常见的关键字和引用次数等。这些发现有助于确定农业综合企业循环和可持续商业模式的总体趋势，并指出对比和共同的方面，提供了学术文献中这些研究主题随时间的概述。此外，本调查还为研究人员、学者、政府管理者、行业管理者和顾问提供了清晰的轮廓和有用的信息。

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Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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1.10

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审稿时长

21 weeks

期刊介绍： A Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural é uma publicação trimestral da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural (SOBER). O seu objetivo é divulgar e difundir os resultados de pesquisas nas áreas de economia, administração, extensão e sociologia rural, e em conseqüência, promover e estimular o debate de temas e fatos de importância econômica e social, bem como colaborar no desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico, do Brasil e em outras partes do mundo. A abreviatura de seu título é Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural, que deve ser usada em bibliografias, notas de rodapé e em referências e legendas bibliográficas.