Systematic Literature Review on SMEs Financing Decision
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https://doi.org/10.6981/FEM.202510_6(10).0017Keywords:
Capital Structure; SME; Literature Review; Financing.Abstract
A systematic review of the existing literature on SMEs financing from 2017 to 2020, is demonstrated in this paper. The review covers 60 articles indexed in SSCI, SCIE and AHCI, analyzing the literature from 4 aspects: research design, scope of research, sampling/data collection and data analysis. The study indicates that this line of research has the following characteristics: (a)high use of formalized, statistical and longitudinal. (b) concentration on Europe and Asia. (c)a prevalent use of the whole population. (d)heavy reliance on an econometric model.
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