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3.1 Conduct of Systematic Bibliographic Review
Following the above-mentioned roadmap, RBS was approached to look for answers
to the problem “how publications in national and international journals addressed
the relationship between corporate sustainability and decision-making in the period
2008–2017?”, object of this research.
The search strategy—strings—was elaborated based on a review of preliminary
bibliography, in which the recurrent use of some terms was verified. These, after
a process of verification, adjustments and tests of word combinations and Boolean
operators, resulted in the following search strategy: “Decision Making” the main
term, along with “Corporate Sustainability”, “Sustainable Development” and “Triple
Bottom Line.”
It was decided to use the terms in English, considering that it would broaden the
scope of the research, since, regardless of the language in which the articles were
originally written, the indexes: title, abstract and keywords are also marked in that
language.
It was considered, as a criterion for inclusion of the retrieved publications, the
context in which the subjects investigated were inserted. Thus, articles dealing with
sustainability and decision making in a scenario other than the business environment,
would be discarded, because they did not meet the objective of this research.
It was chosen, the joint approach of the researched subjects as qualification criterion, that is, studies that relate business sustainability and decision-making processes.
It should be emphasized that the investigated universe comprises the period between
2008 and 2017, a temporal window that could present an updated panorama of the
main ideas that permeate the subject matter.
The selected strings were applied in four databases: Capes Periodicals Portal,
Scopus, Science Direct and Scielo. These databases are online platforms that allow
access to scientific publications from various countries and areas of knowledge.
Initially, it was conceived the accomplishment of the searches of the strings in the
titles, abstracts and keywords of the publications, that happened in the bases Science
Direct and Scopus. As the other bases did not provide this option, it was necessary
to adapt the searches in the Capes Newspapers Portal (in the subject) and Scielo (all
indices). Due to this adaptation, the number of articles, recovered and later excluded,
in these two platforms was superior to the others (Table 1).
The application of the keywords, in the four bases selected, resulted in the recovery
of 3653 jobs. It should be noted that the number of publications found in Capes
Portal represents approximately 68% of the total. This fact can be explained by two
reasons. The scope of the search in this base was greater (subjects) than the others
(title, abstract and keywords), and apparently the system of this base has disregarded
the logical operator Boolean “and”, which requests the retrieval of publications that
present both themes surveyed together, returning articles that contained at least one
of the themes, which configures the logical operator “or”.
The above circumstance motivated an additional procedure in the papers returned
in Capes Portal. These were submitted to an investigation that sought to verify the
R. F. da Silva and E. R. Filho
3.1 Conduct of Systematic Bibliographic Review
Following the above-mentioned roadmap, RBS was approached to look for answers
to the problem “how publications in national and international journals addressed
the relationship between corporate sustainability and decision-making in the period
2008–2017?”, object of this research.
The search strategy—strings—was elaborated based on a review of preliminary
bibliography, in which the recurrent use of some terms was verified. These, after
a process of verification, adjustments and tests of word combinations and Boolean
operators, resulted in the following search strategy: “Decision Making” the main
term, along with “Corporate Sustainability”, “Sustainable Development” and “Triple
Bottom Line.”
It was decided to use the terms in English, considering that it would broaden the
scope of the research, since, regardless of the language in which the articles were
originally written, the indexes: title, abstract and keywords are also marked in that
language.
It was considered, as a criterion for inclusion of the retrieved publications, the
context in which the subjects investigated were inserted. Thus, articles dealing with
sustainability and decision making in a scenario other than the business environment,
would be discarded, because they did not meet the objective of this research.
It was chosen, the joint approach of the researched subjects as qualification criterion, that is, studies that relate business sustainability and decision-making processes.
It should be emphasized that the investigated universe comprises the period between
2008 and 2017, a temporal window that could present an updated panorama of the
main ideas that permeate the subject matter.
The selected strings were applied in four databases: Capes Periodicals Portal,
Scopus, Science Direct and Scielo. These databases are online platforms that allow
access to scientific publications from various countries and areas of knowledge.
Initially, it was conceived the accomplishment of the searches of the strings in the
titles, abstracts and keywords of the publications, that happened in the bases Science
Direct and Scopus. As the other bases did not provide this option, it was necessary
to adapt the searches in the Capes Newspapers Portal (in the subject) and Scielo (all
indices). Due to this adaptation, the number of articles, recovered and later excluded,
in these two platforms was superior to the others (Table 1).
The application of the keywords, in the four bases selected, resulted in the recovery
of 3653 jobs. It should be noted that the number of publications found in Capes
Portal represents approximately 68% of the total. This fact can be explained by two
reasons. The scope of the search in this base was greater (subjects) than the others
(title, abstract and keywords), and apparently the system of this base has disregarded
the logical operator Boolean “and”, which requests the retrieval of publications that
present both themes surveyed together, returning articles that contained at least one
of the themes, which configures the logical operator “or”.
The above circumstance motivated an additional procedure in the papers returned
in Capes Portal. These were submitted to an investigation that sought to verify the