HOW TO ACHIEVE FINANCIAL RESILIENCE? BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED FIRMS (SMEs)
Small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) make major contributions to a country's economic development by increasing employment possibilities, bringing technological changes, establishing social stability, stimulating entrepreneurship, and fostering industrialization. The COVID-19 pandemic has made survival difficult for the majority of micro, small, and medium-sized firms (SMEs) due to their tiny size, low financial resources, and inability to deal with unexpected scenarios. A total of 207 Scopus articles were selected and synthesized using a qualitative approach. The study applies novel visualization techniques (Global Citation Score and Co-Occurrence Networks of Keywords) to map the scientific structure of SMEs financial resilience research, including the clusters of the leading research topics based on citation networks, the most cited articles, and the keywords with the most substantial citation and co-occurrence. The findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the evolution of SMEs' financial resilience research, highlighting the potential directions for further research in the field. This paper also provides insights for policymakers and SME managers to make informed decisions.
SMEs; Financial Resilience; Bibliometric Analysis; Visualization Analysis.