Rashid Umra, Abdullah Mohd, Khatib Saleh F A, Khan Fateh Mohd, Akhter Javaid
Department of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Department of Finance, Gitam School of Business, GITAM (Deemed to be) University, Visakhapatnam, India.
Heliyon. 2024 Jan 11;10(2):e24254. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24254. eCollection 2024 Jan 30.
Despite the burgeoning interest among academics in investigating the factors contributing to the high business failure rate among SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), the systematic synthesis of the literature on is restricted. This article aims to significantly advance the understanding of the causes and repercussions of bankruptcy in SMEs and the preventative actions that may be taken to avoid it. This review assesses 282 articles from 175 outlets employing quantitative and statistics-based bibliometric tools. This bibliometric assessment helped delineate the citation and publication trends and the top contributors to the domain. The underlying thematic clusters of research on bankruptcy in SMEs were also identified, deciphered and elaborated, along with charting the future research vistas through the lens of theory, context, and methods framework. The authors believe this bibliometric variant of systematic literature review makes a significant contribution to bankruptcy and SME research by highlighting the development of the literature and some of the most active research fronts in the domain by offering insights that were not clasped thoroughly or assessed by prior literature assessments.
尽管学术界对研究导致中小企业高商业失败率的因素兴趣日益浓厚，但关于这方面文献的系统综述却很有限。本文旨在显著增进对中小企业破产原因及影响以及可采取的预防措施的理解。本综述使用基于定量和统计的文献计量工具评估了来自175个来源的282篇文章。这种文献计量评估有助于描绘引文和出版趋势以及该领域的主要贡献者。还识别、解读并阐述了中小企业破产研究的潜在主题集群，并通过理论、背景和方法框架勾勒了未来的研究前景。作者认为，这种系统文献综述的文献计量变体通过突出文献的发展以及该领域一些最活跃的研究前沿，为破产和中小企业研究做出了重大贡献，提供了先前文献评估未充分把握或评估的见解。
