A literature review of the history and evolution of corporate social responsibility

International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility

Table 1 Publications on CSR

Note. Developed by the authors with the following considerations:
1) The data was obtained from three online data bases: Science Direct, ProQuest and Web of Science
2) The search was conducted for the term “corporate social responsibility”
3) For Science Direct the numbers correspond to the results of the advance search tool within the full text under these categories: review articles, research articles, data articles, editorials, and replication studies
4) For ProQuest the numbers correspond to the results of the advance search tool within the following categories: a) source type: conference papers & proceedings, dissertations & theses, reports, scholarly journals, standards and practice guidelines, working papers; b) document type: all; c) language: all; d) the search was conducted within the full text of peer reviewed articles. For the case of the search in ProQuest, it is particularly interesting to notice that the year 2017 had the lowest amount of publications, even less than in the year 2010
5) For Web of Science the numbers correspond to the results of the advance search tool within the following categories: a) document type: article, book, book chapter, data paper, discussion, and review; b) language: all; c) the search was conducted in the themes and titles of the publications