Research on trade credit – a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Debidutta Pattnaik, Satish Kumar and Ashutosh Vashishtha

Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 367-390

Abstract: Purpose - Trade credit (TC) is a financing provision by non-financing firms. The multi-disciplinary research field has sustained scholarly attention for long. Pursuant to the gap for a comprehensive summary of the literature confined to the areas of Finance and Economics, this study aims to provide quantitative and qualitative insights not fully captured or analysed in previous reviews. Design/methodology/approach - Contextualized systematic literature review (SLR) and bibliometric techniques are used to map the thematic, intellectual and conceptual structures latent in 138 articles published in top journals. Findings - The top authors, top journals and major themes are recognized using bibliometric techniques followed by an in-depth bibliographic-network-based-content-analysis. Five major clusters indicating the five research dimensions within the specialized field are identified and extensively reviewed. Empirical validation of key theories is discussed in the contents and a conceptual model is developed. Finally, the study has identified key research gaps to set the direction for future research. Research limitations/implications - The scope of the literature selection is confined to the areas of finance and economics. Future studies could elaborate on a broader perspective. Originality/value - The study contributes by offering a conceptual model latent in the literature on TC. It derives major research gaps to set the direction of future research. Also, the combination of SLR and bibliometrics is a methodological contribution in this research domain.

Keywords: Co-occurrence analysis; Citation analysis; Trade credit; Bibliographic coupling; Bibliometrics analysis; Bibliometrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1108/QRFM-09-2019-0103

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