Bibliometric and Literature Review of Sustainability Research Anchored in The UN SDGs

Existing literature highlights the exploration of sustainability research anchored in the UN SDGs, examined across different sectors, themes, and ‎geographic boundaries. Understanding the routes through which business practices contribute to sustainable development entails a nuanced ‎review of relevant components across corporate governance structure, stakeholder demands, to societal context. There has been a significant ‎proliferation in scholarly engagement of management and business disciplines with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals- the ‎UN SDGs. This study adopts a bibliometric analysis using bibliographic coupling to assess the evolving body of knowledge at the intersection of the UN SDGs and business practices. Analysis has been done using R-biblioshiny, VOSviewer, and MS Excel. Drawing on a corpus of 1,133 peer-reviewed articles, indexed in Scopus, between 2015 and 2025. This analysis identifies four dominant thematic clusters: (1) ‎Strategy, framework-based implementation of the UN SDGs by businesses; (2) Emergent themes in sustainability research; (3) Leadership ‎and HRM practices for achieving the implementation of the UN SDGs in the business context; (4) Accounting, Tourism and Human Re-‎source imperatives in the attainment of the UN SDGs. Relying on thematic groups, recognized through literature and bibliographic coupling ‎analysis anchored in UNSDGs. The present research synthesizes existing scholarly studies explaining the UNSDGs integration and execution ‎within businesses. In doing so, the study also outlines purposeful pathways intended for upcoming investigation focused on fostering the ‎organized and inclusive harmonious alignment of sustainability goals in the business and management context‎.