ISO management system standards in the light of corporate sustainability: a bibliometric analysis

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TQM Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI:10.1108/tqm-09-2022-0279

Louis Maximilian Ronalter, C. F. Poltronieri, M. Gerolamo

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PurposeThis work aims to present existing management system standards (MSSs) published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) through a bibliometric analysis, thereby outlining their academic research status and highlighting their relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as to environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes.Design/methodology/approachThe study firstly retrieves a preliminary set of MSSs standards from ISO and filters it in accordance with certain exclusion/inclusion criteria. Secondly, a bibliometric search is performed in the database Scopus. Thirdly, performance analysis is conducted to quantitatively measure the scientific output in academia, and science mapping of co-occurrences of keywords is applied to identify related topics. Thereby, the standards’ relationships to sustainability are outlined. Eventually, the work discusses future research opportunities.FindingsThe findings reveal that whereas research on MSSs focuses predominantly on only a few standards by now, there are actually numerous further standards that address sustainability-relevant topics, which are getting increasing attention among scholars as measured by the number of publications. Therefore, an action plan for future research is derived. Moreover, the findings support the argument of integrating MSSs to cover a broad range of corporate sustainability issues.Originality/valueThe paper connects the concepts of MSSs and sustainability, an upcoming research branch yet characterized by shortage of academic studies (given that research continues to focus on a few standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001). The work therefore opens up the line for more in-detail research on less known but nevertheless sustainability-relevant ISO MSSs.

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基于企业可持续性的ISO管理体系标准：文献计量学分析

目的本工作旨在通过文献计量分析介绍国际标准化组织（ISO）发布的现有管理体系标准，从而概述其学术研究现状，并强调其与可持续发展目标（SDG）以及环境、社会和治理主题的关系。设计/方法论/方法本研究首先从ISO中检索一套初步的MSSs标准，并根据某些排除/纳入标准对其进行筛选。其次，在Scopus数据库中进行文献计量检索。第三，进行绩效分析来定量衡量学术界的科学产出，并应用关键词共现的科学映射来识别相关主题。因此，概述了标准与可持续性的关系。最后，这项工作讨论了未来的研究机会。发现研究结果表明，尽管目前对MSSs的研究主要集中在少数几个标准上，但实际上还有许多其他标准涉及可持续性相关主题，从出版物数量来看，这些标准越来越受到学者的关注。因此，得出了未来研究的行动计划。此外，研究结果支持整合MSSs以涵盖广泛的企业可持续性问题的论点。原创性/价值该论文将MSSs和可持续性的概念联系在一起，可持续性是一个即将到来的研究分支，但其特点是缺乏学术研究（鉴于研究仍集中在一些标准上，如ISO 9001、ISO 14001和ISO 45001）。因此，这项工作为对鲜为人知但与可持续性相关的ISO MSS进行更详细的研究开辟了道路。

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TQM Journal Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

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114

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