The Role of Local Stakeholder Empowerment in Ensuring Sustainable Development: Past, Present and the Future

Abstract

There is a significant literature corpus that provides information on published materials aimed at empowering local stakeholders. To ensure sustainable development, however, local stakeholder empowerment is still a relatively new concept. This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of local stakeholder empowerment in ensuring sustainable development. This paper provides bibliometric network analysis performed on 112 articles, 17 conferences papers, 10 book chapters  and 1 book.  The results demonstrated trends in the development of local stakeholder empowerment in ensuring sustainable development. Bibliometric procedures highlight notable authors, publications, and theoretical contributions to the works. This work offers a thorough analysis of the role that local stakeholder empowerment shows in promoting SD for future study. This study helps empower local communities by delineating emerging study ideas on local stakeholder empowerment for future research.