Systematic Review Data on Third-Party Sustainability Measures in Business Literature

Harvard Dataverse hosts a dataset compiled for a systematic literature review on third-party sustainability measures. The data supports replication of findings from the associated academic article by Timmer et al. The dataset was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency and distribution of specific sustainability measures (e.g., ratings, certifications, indices) across the reviewed literature corpus.
• Investigate correlations between publication attributes (e.g., journal, year) and the types of third-party measures studied.
• Validate findings on the reliability and use of sustainability metrics by replicating the systematic review's coding and analysis.

Strengths

• Dataset enables full replication of the findings from the peer-reviewed article in Organization & Environment.
• Data is structured for systematic literature review analysis, a method for synthesizing research evidence.

Limitations

• Specific sample size (number of reviewed articles or data points) is not provided in the description.
• The dataset's scope is limited to the business and management literature, excluding other academic fields.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Tyson Timmer.

Collection Method

Compiled through a systematic literature review of business and management academic publications.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-02.