WJEMSD · Vol 17, No 3 · 2021

Twenty years of green innovation research: trends and way forward, Dr. Muhammad Farrukh, Sarfaraz Javed, Ali Raza and Jason Lee

School of Management and Economics
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing; Faculty of Management Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Ilma University, Karachi

China / Pakistan

Sarfaraz Javed

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

India

Ali Raza

Knowledge Unit of Business, Economics, Accountancy, and Commerce (KUBEAC)
University of Management and Technology, Sialkot Campus, Lahore

Pakistan

Jason Wai Chow Lee

UCSI Graduate Business School, Faculty of Business and Management
UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Purpose

This paper aims to analyze the publication structure of academic research on green innovation (GI) between 2000 and 2019.

Design/Methodology/Approach

Bibliographic data on GI are extracted from the Scopus database, and then they were analyzed through VOSviewer software.

Findings

This paper analyzes 653 publications on GI from 2000 to 2019. For so doing, the study identifies the most productive countries, universities, authors, journals and the most prolific publications in GI. Besides, the study uses VOSviewer software to visualize the mapping based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling (BC) and co-occurrence of keywords.

Original/Value of the Paper

The main contribution of the study is that it provides an overview of the trends and trajectories of GI, which may help the researchers and the practitioners to comprehend the trends and future research directions.

Keywords

Green innovationBibliometric analysisCo-citationBibliographic couplingCo-occurrence of keywords

Citation

Farrukh, M., Javed, S., Raza, A. and Lee, J.W.C. (2021), "Twenty years of green innovation research: trends and way forward", World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 488-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJEMSD-06-2020-0068

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