Table 4

Summary of top cited research articles

AuthorsCitationsSustainability themeTheoretical focusJournalCountry
Gladwin et al. (1995) 3,323Shifting paradigms for sustainable developmentManagement TheoryThe Academy of Management ReviewUS
York et al. (2003) 1,147Environmental sustainabilitySociological theories of human-environment interactions (i.e. human ecology, modernisation and political economy)American Sociological ReviewUS
Székely and Knirsch (2005) 951Economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, social sustainabilityCSREuropean Management JournalGermany
Ameer and Othman (2012) 832Corporate financial sustainabilityCSRJournal of Business EthicsMalaysia
Keeble et al. (2003) 536Economic, social, environmental and resourcesCorporate sustainability indicatorsJournal of Business EthicsUK
Spangenberg (2002) 495Economic, social, environmental and institutionalPrism of Sustainability and Environmental SpaceEcological IndicatorsGermany
Gasparatos et al. (2008) 489Economic, social and environmentalEnvironmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA)Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewUK
Rennings and Wiggering (1997) 431Economic, environmentalNeo-classical vs. modern economic theoryEcological EconomicsGermany
Veleva et al. (2001) 349Production sustainabilityThe Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell's sustainability evaluation toolJournal of Cleaner ProductionUS
Morali and Searcy (2013) 344Supply chain sustainabilityCSR, GRI, RBV RDT resource dependence theory, supply chain managementJournal of Business EthicsCanada
Tencati et al. (2004) 310Economic, social and environmentalCSRJournal of Business EthicsItaly
Ozdamar, Ertekin and Atik (2014) 306Sustainable marketsMacro-marketingJournal of MicromarketingTurkey
Temenos and McCann (2012) 268Economic, social, environmental and politicalSustainability fixEnvironment and PlanningCanada
Hemphill et al. (2004) 267Economy and work resource use, buildings and land use, transport and mobility, community benefitsBellagio principles were developed by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)Urban StudiesUK
Schader et al. (2014) 258Food sustainabilitySustainability Assessment in Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA)
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Ecology and SocietySwitzerland
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