Exploring Global Research Trend on SME Exchange: A Bibliometric Analysis

Taking paucity of comprehensive literature on the emerging topic of SME exchange, this bibliometric analysis is a novel endeavor to explore the global research trend on such SME exchange. The study comprises a review of 55 articles after filtering 546 articles from the Scopus database for a period of 30 years (1992-2021). The study documents that after 2016 there is a upsurge in the literature on SME exchange while the most prominent contributor is Arora N. from Guru Nanak Dev University. Global Business Review is the leading journal documenting literature on SME exchange and most of the leading studies are based on Asian context which signifies a clear research gap to explore on other contexts. The co-occurrence analysis highlights that the financial market, stock market, under-pricing, and IPOs are major themes of SME exchange. This paper will help the researchers, regulators, policymakers to understand the current status of research on SME exchange and helps to identify relevant unexplored areas.