IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY EDUCATION FOR ECUADORIAN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXPORTING COMPANIES

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to studying the variables and importance of social responsibility education for fruit and vegetable exporting companies. The bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during 2016-2021, identifying 112 publications. The information provided by the said platform was organized using tables and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that China, with 15 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the importance of education in social responsibility for fruit and vegetable exporting companies was Social Sciences, with 56 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, representing 72% of the total scientific production.