The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to enhance global access to sustainable development by involving all parties in an integrated strategy to tackle inequalities and poverty. The SDGs are the United Nations’ 2030 goals, aimed at protecting the planet and its people. This study uses an extensive bibliometric analysis to investigate the dynamic relationships between the SDGs and business performance metrics. With global sustainability agendas increasingly shaping corporate strategy, understanding how SDG practices are reflected in corporate performance metrics is critical. By analysing peer-reviewed literature indexed in Scopus from 2015 to 2025, this study identifies prevailing research trends, influential authors, institutions, and journals, as well as thematic shifts in how organisations integrate SDGs into performance frameworks. The study uses VOSviewer and Biblioshiny package of R software for bibliometric analysis. The study maps co-authorship networks, keyword co-occurrence, and citation patterns to uncover intellectual structures and knowledge clusters in this emerging field. The findings reveal a marked increase in publications since 2015, following the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda, with a growing emphasis on ESG reporting, stakeholder value, sustainability disclosures, and impact assessment tools. Corporate performance evaluation is gradually moving beyond traditional financial indicators to incorporate multidimensional indicators.
Haq et al. (Mon,) studied this question.