TY - GEN
T1 - Using probabilistic topic models to study orientation of sustainable supply chain research
AU - Montenegro, Carlos
AU - Loza-Aguirre, Edison
AU - Segura-Morales, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Even though the notion of sustainable development calls for an equilibrium among social, environmental and economic dimensions, several studies have suggested that an unbalance exists about the attention given to the three dimensions. Nonetheless, few contributions have demonstrated such unbalance. In this article, we propose a method based on LDA Topic Model, conceived to speed up the analysis of the sustainable orientation of a corpus. To test the procedure, we compared the results obtained using our method against those from a manual coding procedure performed on about ten years of literature from top-tier journals dealing with Sustainable Supply Chain issues. Our results confirm unbalance on research in this field, as they were reported previously. They show that most research is oriented to environmental and economic aspects, leaving aside social issues.
AB - Even though the notion of sustainable development calls for an equilibrium among social, environmental and economic dimensions, several studies have suggested that an unbalance exists about the attention given to the three dimensions. Nonetheless, few contributions have demonstrated such unbalance. In this article, we propose a method based on LDA Topic Model, conceived to speed up the analysis of the sustainable orientation of a corpus. To test the procedure, we compared the results obtained using our method against those from a manual coding procedure performed on about ten years of literature from top-tier journals dealing with Sustainable Supply Chain issues. Our results confirm unbalance on research in this field, as they were reported previously. They show that most research is oriented to environmental and economic aspects, leaving aside social issues.
KW - Content analysis
KW - LDA topic model
KW - Monte Carlo method
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Sustainable supply chain
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045139027&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_57
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_57
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85045139027
SN - 9783319777023
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 576
EP - 586
BT - Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies
A2 - Rocha, Alvaro
A2 - Reis, Luis Paulo
A2 - Costanzo, Sandra
A2 - Adeli, Hojjat
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2018
Y2 - 27 March 2018 through 29 March 2018
ER -