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Proceeding from the idea that it is possible to correlate economic with social development, this research focus on cooperatives and their management systems. Based on studies and publications on cooperative management practices in several countries, this study seeks to acquire sufficient knowledge about cooperatives to understand them as efficient and proactive organizations. They seek an alignment between economic and social development of their members sharing a common goal of prosperity. This study pursues the following question: “Does the competence of the operational management of cooperatives make it possible for cooperative members to overcome the obstacles that prevent their social and economic development?” To answer this question, it was proposed to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the cooperative systems in several countries between 1995 and 2020, with the focus on the economic and social development of their members. As for the methodology employed in this study, a collection of publications on cooperatives in the world and a systematic review was organized. As a result, the characteristics of cooperatives could be identified, allowing an overview of the organizations’ qualifications as promoters of social and economic development.

Since the end of the 20th century, the social economy and the solidarity economy have represented an alternative economic model in constant evolution, aimed at generating profits with social impact criteria, addressing inequality, the democratization of resources, and the primacy of people over the capital. Due to the growing interest and relevance of the topic, this study aims to contribute to the knowledge of this area, based on an analysis and review of the literature registered in the WoS and Scopus databases between 2000 and 2020, using bibliometric methods and tools. The main approaches, schools, authors, journals, countries, and institutions in this field were identified from a scientific mapping. The most relevant documents were classified into three categories, classical, structural, and perspectives, represented through the metaphor of the tree of science. The main research fronts in the area, social entrepreneurship, community development and sustainability, and social economy in emerging countries, were determined. Finally, an agenda for future studies.

The purpose of this work is to perform a systematic review and a bibliometric analysis of publications on regional development and sustainability, two increasingly important concepts in economic, environmental, social, and academic forums in all world countries. The study was carried out under the concept of scientific mapping, using bibliometrics to observe the interrelations between disciplines, fields, professions, or documents. The study was done in two stages: a bibliometric analysis and a network analysis. First, a WoS search was performed, and bibliometric indicators were reviewed. In the second step, the network was constructed through the analysis of co-citations, which were compared with the similarity tree. These documents are divided into three categories: the root of the source document (called hegemonic or classic); the backbone of the document involved in the development of the current knowledge of the subject called trunk or structural; the last one is the collection of the latest developments called leaves or perspectives of the document work. Finally, three perspectives identified in the following research fields are presented: planning and territorial development, evaluation and ecosystems, and China and urban development.

The multidisciplinary conjugation of international marketing as a business philosophy and the functions of political economy constitutes a wide-ranging topic. The objective of this research is to design a theoretical model of international marketing from the functions of political economy for foreign trade. Based on the positivist paradigm operationalized in a hypothetical-deductive research system that suggests the methodology of modeling international marketing. In addition, it incorporates methods such as the dialecticalmaterialist in terms of its historicity, functionality, systemic character between reality and theoretical thought. The design is obtained from a quantitative research process through bibliometrics, combining comparative analysis tools, at a theoretical and then practical level of the main research categories: International Marketing, Political Economy and Foreign Trade. In the results, through co-occurrence, the recurring basic concepts in previous applied research were identified, with which the model was formed. It was possible for the concepts converted into research variables to feed the model with subhypotheses attached to the central hypotheses. In conclusion, the operationalization of the model shows that the functions of political economy have a positive impact on international marketing, each of them moderated by national contexts.