ABSTRACT
This chapter describes key features of the field in terms of number of publications, types of outlets, citation patterns. It offers a statistical analysis of a large corpus of B&NE research. The chapter provides a useful snapshot for assessing the overall landscape of the field. Movement through the waves of business sustainability can be described as moving through a series of transitions from normal to revolutionary science. A phase of normal science begins when a theory emerges as dominant to other existing theories and becomes the "paradigm". But, established theories become challenged and ultimately change when anomalous events emerge which cannot be explained or solved by the existing order. Conflict over the nature, meaning and response to these events ensues, and the period of revolutionary science ends when a new theory is successful in providing a socially adequate response to the anomaly and becomes the basis of the new paradigm.
