Bibliometric study on company closures: a look at scientific production during the last four decades
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https://doi.org/10.18041/2539-3669/gestionlibre.18.2024.11804Keywords:
Bibliometric Analysis, Business Failure, Business Mortality, Company ClosuresAbstract
The establishment of new companies has been fundamental to boosting the economic activity of nations; in this line, business mortality has been an outstanding object of study for research, thus allowing the expansion of discernment around this event, with the purpose of identifying causal relationships, effects and the main triggers of this phenomenon. Such knowledge aims to propose actions to mitigate business closures and their socioeconomic implications. The objective of this study is to examine the scientific production registered in the Scopus database in relation to the term company closure using a bibliometric approach. Among the main results obtained, 155 publications were found for the period 1982 to 2023, a remarkable increase from 2016 to 2022, which is the year with the highest scientific production in this subject. The most relevant author with three papers is Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and the institutions with the highest number of papers are Harvard University and The University of Tennessee with five each, which ratifies the United States as the country with the highest production, and the Journal Small Business Economics, stands out for the number of articles. Finally, co-occurrence networks of terms from the abstracts and keywords are presented. One of the main contributions of this work is the identification of the most relevant concepts associated with business closure, which are colloquially used indiscriminately, among them business failure, business mortality, discontinuity, insolvency, bankruptcy, and cessation of operations.
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