Corporate Governance and Financial Performance Under Environmental and Sustainability Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis (2015-2025)
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Financial Performance, Sustainability, Corporate GovernanceAbstract
Purpose – This research seeks to methodically chart or trace the development of scientific research regarding the linkage between corporate governance and financial performance in the background of environmental and sustainability issues from the year 2015 to 2025. It seeks to clarify how governance mechanisms have adapted to sustainability pressures and how these adaptations affect firms’ financial outcomes and long-term resilience.
Design/data/methodology – In this scenario, a bibliometric research design will be used for this research as it will involve a data set of 609 peer-reviewed articles retrievable from the Scopus database. Scientists mapping methods such as co-citation analysis, co-author analysis, and co-word analysis have been employed to understand publishing trends in this field.
Findings – Our findings show a strong and non-linear annual growth rate of 37.02%, with a sharp acceleration after 2019, reflecting the global turn toward sustainability-oriented governance. The geography of knowledge production is multipolar, and China has unmistakably emerged as a core node in the network of international research collaboration. Thematic evolution analysis offers clear signals of paradigmatic changes in conceptual perspectives: from fragmented to integrated approaches of governance ESG-aligned.
Originality/value – This research provides a concise bibliometric synthesis of a rapidly expanding field, clarifying its intellectual and thematic evolution, and demonstrates that corporate governance has moved beyond a procedural role to become a key driver of financial value under environmental and sustainability challenges.
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