Green Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Trends, Contributors, and Future Directions
Evolving from an ethical consideration to a strategic imperative, green innovation (GI) compels businesses to continually enhance their processes to achieve sustainable growth. Based on bibliometric analysis of 594 Web of Science (WOS)-sourced articles from 2000 to 2023 using VOSviewer-1.6.20 and Bibliometrix-4.3.0, this study sheds light on the existing trends of green innovation, its contributors, and potential future directions in today’s business landscape. Our findings unveil significant insights from GI literature; an upward growth trajectory in publications; limited collaboration among researchers and institutions (notable collaborative networks among countries include China, Spain, and the United Kingdom); and trending GI terms and themes include green intellectual capital, GI efficiency, green product innovation, green absorptive capacity, green knowledge acquisition, big data, etc. These insights serve as a comprehensive guide for practitioners and scholars navigating the study of GI within the business and management sphere.
Authors
- Salman Abbas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4724-4603)
- Syed Ali Taqi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3736-4897)
- Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-1216)
- Jumanah Ahmed Darwish
- Sajjad Alam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0124-2362)
- Nadeem Shafique Butt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-4920)
- Yarui Gao
- Jianhua Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-8138)
- Aqsa Akbar
Institutions
- COMSATS University Islamabad (PK)
- King Abdulaziz University (SA)
- Zhengzhou University (CN)
- University of Jeddah (SA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sustainability
- Published
- 2024-12-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su162410956
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.51