管理学研究中的可持续发展目标:20年回顾与分析

Sustainable Development Goals in Management Research:A 20-years Analysis

  • 摘要: 本文评估了在过去20年间(2005—2024),管理学研究如何响应联合国可持续发展目标(Sustainable Development Goals, 简称SDGs)。具体而言,本文比较了涵盖会计、金融、管理、市场营销与运营管理五大学科的18本国际顶尖商学与管理学期刊,以及专注于中国管理研究的Management and Organization Review(MOR)在SDGs关注度上的差异。本文采用三种人工智能工具扫描论文摘要,并评估其与17项SDGs的契合度。结果显示,自2015年SDGs提出以来的10年间,其相关研究显著多于此前10年,增长最为显著的领域集中在SDG08(体面工作与经济增长)、SDG09(产业、创新与基础设施)以及SDG16(和平、正义与健全制度)。在所分析的期刊中,MOR在SDGs相关研究方面表现突出,凸显了其在负责任研究(Responsible Research)方面的学术引领重要作用。基于负责任研究的理念,本文进一步探讨了在学术研究中关注全体利益相关者(而非仅限股东)福祉的重要性

     

    Abstract: This paper maps how management scholarship has taken up the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the past two decades,with a particular focus on how Management and Organization Review(MOR) compares to 18 flagship journals in accounting,finance,management,marketing,and operations. Building on a 55-year,18-journal dataset,the authors zero in on 2005—2024—the decade before and after the SDGs' 2015 launch—and add MOR as a 19th journal to assess whether Chinese management research has been especially receptive to SDG-oriented work. Methodologically,the team uses an ensemble of three AI systems—a keyword/semantic model from Rotterdam School of Management,OpenAI GPT-4.1,and Claude Sonnet 3.7—to score each article abstract against all 17 SDGs. Articles are tagged to a goal when at least two models concur (“majority rule”),allowing multi-label assignment. Inter-model agreement is high (most pairwise correlations>0.90),and the resulting SDG ratio—the share of a journal's output mapped to at least one SDG—serves as a transparent,scalable indicator of a journal's social-value orientation. Across the 20-year window,SDG engagement rises markedly after 2015. In the 18 journals,the SDG ratio climbs from a pre-2015 baseline of 9% to 31% in 2015—2024. MOR exhibits both higher levels and stronger growth:28.4% of its 2005—2014 papers are SDG-linked,jumping to 43.3% post-2015—about 14 percentage points above the contemporaneous 18-journal average. Aggregated over 2005—2024,36.7% of MOR's 365 articles map to at least one SDG,compared with 26.4% of the 24,508 articles in the comparison set,indicating a consistently stronger SDG orientation at MOR. Topic coverage is uneven but broadly aligned across journals. Four goals dominate in both MOR and the 18 journals:SDG08 (Decent Work and Economic Growth),SDG09 (Industry,Innovation & Infrastructure),SDG10 (Reduced Inequality),and SDG16 (Peace,Justice & Strong Institutions). MOR also shows attention on SDG12 (Responsible Consumption & Production),clearing the 1% threshold there,whereas the 18-journal group surpasses MOR on SDG03 (Good Health & Well-Being) and SDG05 (Gender Equality). Several ecology-focused goals (e.g.,SDG 13—15) remain comparatively underrepresented overall,underscoring opportunities to bind environmental stewardship more tightly to mainstream management theories of strategy,organizing,and innovation. The findings illuminate the agenda-setting power of editorial policy. MOR's mission—to advance theory from and about China while cultivating humanistic,stakeholder-oriented inquiry—appears to institutionalize stronger incentives for socially consequential work through topic selection,special issues,and review criteria. This suggests that journals can accelerate the field's pivot toward responsible research without sacrificing rigor,echoing the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) movement's dual mandate of credibility and usefulness. The paper also positions the SDG ratio as a complementary metric to citations—one that foregrounds societal relevance. While an SDG tag is not proof of real-world impact,systematic SDG mapping offers a common language for scholars,editors,and funders to monitor progress,identify blind spots (notably climate and biodiversity),and align resources and evaluations with global development priorities. Methodologically,the study endorses AI ensemble triangulation as a reliable,scalable approach for large-corpus content analysis,with the caveat that multi-model checks and transparency are essential. In sum,management research has shifted—unevenly but decisively—toward societal stewardship since 2015. MOR stands out as a field leader,demonstrating how editorial stewardship can galvanize SDG-relevant scholarship. The road ahead is clear:deepen coverage of neglected ecological and equity goals,maintain methodological pluralism,and use SDG-aligned incentives to translate rigorous scholarship into knowledge that advances the common good. The reconstruction of the valuation system with Chinese characteristics is an ongoing and lengthy process.It requires simultaneous efforts from the investment side and the corporate side to mutually cultivate capital and assets that recognize social value.Our policy recommendations include:Firstly,standardizing and strengthening the disclosure of information related to corporate social value.Secondly,enhancing investor education and leveraging the role of professional institutional investors to focus more on information related to social value.Thirdly,from the investment side,cultivating long-term capital for social value,such as insurance,pensions,social security,and annuities,and developing broad-based index products.Fourthly,encouraging Chinese enterprises to proactively strengthen their strategic and operational management capabilities in creating social value.Lastly,strengthening systematic research on the valuation system of Chinese characteristics.

     

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