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Research Status and Development Trends of Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Enterprises

Author(s)

Meijing Song, Siyan Chen

Affiliation(s)

School of Finance and Economics, Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou, Hainan, China

Abstract

This study draws on 556 articles and reviews on sustainable competitive advantage indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2020 to 2024. CiteSpace visualization software was employed to conduct a bibliometric analysis, aiming to map the research landscape of sustainable competitive advantage and to identify research hotspots and emerging trends through keyword co-occurrence and burst analysis. The results indicate that research on sustainable competitive advantage is primarily concentrated in the fields of management, business, environmental sciences, and green and sustainable science and technology. Most scholars tend to conduct independent research, with limited sustained collaboration. Although several small collaborative groups exist, the overall intensity of cooperation remains relatively weak. Current research hotspots focus on management, the resource-based view, green innovation, strategy, and dynamic capabilities. Future research should broaden disciplinary integration, strengthen collaboration among authors and institutions, and further explore emerging research themes in this field.

Keywords

CiteSpace; Competitive Advantage; Bibliometric Review; Sustainability

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