Sustainable social responsibility through stakeholders engagement.

Abstract

In this paper, the convergence in research of the terms Corporate Governance,Financial Performance and Social Responsibility has been studied. To this end, wehave reviewed the literature published between 1998 and 2017 and analyzed a totalof 350 articles dealing with these issues, either individually or in combination. Thus, abibliometric and co-citation analysis has been carried out. This research has demon-strated the importance of the Stakeholder theory to reach the organization's commit-ment to achieving good financial results, which is considered the key to maintainingsocial responsibility policies over time.The emerging trends detected focus on board diversity as well as corporate reputa-tion along with the company's financial performance. Also new topics that are raisinginterest among researchers are women, China, information disclosure or gender.