Abstract:

Purpose – In this study, it is aimed to examine the articles on corporate social responsibility, especially in food and beverage businesses, in the journals scanned in Scopus, to analyze the evaluations on this subject in the studies, and to fill the gap in the literature in the context of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Secondary data was used in the paper. In this context, a search was carried out in the Scopus database on 15.04.2021 using the keywords 'corporate social responsibility' and 'restaurant' in order to obtain the studies to be examined in the bibliometric analysis. Findings – As a result of the findings obtained in the biblimetric study conducted using the Scopus database on corporate social responsibility applied in restaurant businesses, it is seen that it was first published in the relevant database in 2002. It has been determined that 113 studies have been carried out in 61 different sources and in a period of approximately 20 years since the specified date. Discussion – Studies on CSR in the field of tourism have started to increase in quantity after the 2000s. Within the scope of this study, studies on CSR practices in restaurant businesses were examined. It has been determined that the studies on restaurants are very few until 2013, but it has been determined that there has been a great increase in the number of studies since 2014.

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