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研究生: 阮氏紅雲
Van - Thi Hong Nguyen
論文名稱: 探討中小企業研究文獻之知識主路徑發展網絡
Exploring the Main Path of Knowledge Trajectory of Small-and-Medium Enterprise Studies
指導教授: 何秀青
Mei H.C. Ho
口試委員: 劉顯仲
John S. Liu
何秀青
Mei H.C. Ho
王孔政
Kung-Jeng Wang
學位類別: 碩士
Master
系所名稱: 管理學院 - 管理學院MBA
School of Management International (MBA)
論文出版年: 2019
畢業學年度: 107
語文別: 英文
論文頁數: 115
中文關鍵詞: 中小企業主路徑SMEVOS
外文關鍵詞: main path, VOS clustering, microenterprises, small businesses
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  • Over the past decades, the importance of small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) has been stressed in various researches as SMEs are always the backbone to the global economy. According to (OECD, 2018), SMEs cover a majority of business population, provide job opportunities, and increase value added in production process. In emerging and developing countries, SMEs also generate greater than one third of GDP for the economy growth. Some nations provide the incentives, e.g. the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) in USA, to support the growth of SMEs. In addition, scholars explore different issues and problems met by SMEs in the past decades. Though the studies in SMEs have been growing at a rapid rate, a comprehensive review on the topic still leaves room for further exploration. In this study, we aim to solve this problem via observing the main themes in the knowledge trajectory of SMEs studies and further identify the new trend of critical SME management issues.

    The methods applied in this study include main path analysis and VOS clustering. We collect publication data about SME studies published under Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals from Web of Science. We build up relevant keyword query by searching with titles containing SMEs (including micro-enterprises) and its synonyms to construct out dataset. The dataset includes 5,394 articles for the period from 1938 to 2019. Main path analysis is used to find out the trajectory of SME knowledge network, whereas VOS clustering helps to identify the meaningful research themes in the past 82 years.

    Based on the data, the number of published papers increased in six folds up to 5,394, mostly from UK (15.89%) and US (14.72%), in the two recent decades. The results of main path analysis showed that the research focuses have been moving from the dynamics of SME development to SME’s business sustainability. Moreover, the VOS clustering identifies eight distinguished groups. These topics include (i) “SME Strategy and Innovation”, (ii) “SME Finance”, (iii) “SME Policies”, (iv) “Information and Knowledge Management (IM & KM) in SMEs”, (v) “SME Business Ethics and Sustainability”, (vi) “Micro and Small Businesses”, (vii) “Operation Management in SMEs” and (viii) “Work Environment (Occupational Health & Safety) in SMEs”. Besides, business strategies and innovations are the two main research themes that SME scholars focused on. By further extension of main path analysis, we also found that in the recent years, sustainability and innovation concepts have been incorporated on multiple dimensions in different research subjects in which the studies figure out innovative products and strategies to foster sustainable development.

    As a summary of the main path of knowledge trajectory on SMEs, this paper provides an in-depth understanding of SME studies over the last century and serve as an indispensable premise for further studies, strategies and policies.


    Over the past decades, the importance of small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) has been stressed in various researches as SMEs are always the backbone to the global economy. According to (OECD, 2018), SMEs cover a majority of business population, provide job opportunities, and increase value added in production process. In emerging and developing countries, SMEs also generate greater than one third of GDP for the economy growth. Some nations provide the incentives, e.g. the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) in USA, to support the growth of SMEs. In addition, scholars explore different issues and problems met by SMEs in the past decades. Though the studies in SMEs have been growing at a rapid rate, a comprehensive review on the topic still leaves room for further exploration. In this study, we aim to solve this problem via observing the main themes in the knowledge trajectory of SMEs studies and further identify the new trend of critical SME management issues.

    The methods applied in this study include main path analysis and VOS clustering. We collect publication data about SME studies published under Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals from Web of Science. We build up relevant keyword query by searching with titles containing SMEs (including micro-enterprises) and its synonyms to construct out dataset. The dataset includes 5,394 articles for the period from 1938 to 2019. Main path analysis is used to find out the trajectory of SME knowledge network, whereas VOS clustering helps to identify the meaningful research themes in the past 82 years.

    Based on the data, the number of published papers increased in six folds up to 5,394, mostly from UK (15.89%) and US (14.72%), in the two recent decades. The results of main path analysis showed that the research focuses have been moving from the dynamics of SME development to SME’s business sustainability. Moreover, the VOS clustering identifies eight distinguished groups. These topics include (i) “SME Strategy and Innovation”, (ii) “SME Finance”, (iii) “SME Policies”, (iv) “Information and Knowledge Management (IM & KM) in SMEs”, (v) “SME Business Ethics and Sustainability”, (vi) “Micro and Small Businesses”, (vii) “Operation Management in SMEs” and (viii) “Work Environment (Occupational Health & Safety) in SMEs”. Besides, business strategies and innovations are the two main research themes that SME scholars focused on. By further extension of main path analysis, we also found that in the recent years, sustainability and innovation concepts have been incorporated on multiple dimensions in different research subjects in which the studies figure out innovative products and strategies to foster sustainable development.

    As a summary of the main path of knowledge trajectory on SMEs, this paper provides an in-depth understanding of SME studies over the last century and serve as an indispensable premise for further studies, strategies and policies.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT III LIST OF TABLES VI LIST OF FIGURES VII 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Research Background 1 1.2. Research Purposes and Methodologies 2 1.3. Research Questions 2 1.4. Research Structure 3 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4 2.1. Small-and-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 4 2.2. The Importance of Small-and-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 6 2.3. Policies towards Small-and-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 7 2.4. Previous Reviews of SME Researches 10 2.5. Knowledge Diffusion, Patent Citation, Citation Networks and Bibliometric Analysis of Academic papers 11 2.5.1. Knowledge Diffusion, Patent Citation and Citation Networks 11 2.5.2. Bibliometric Analyses of Academic Papers 12 3. DATA COLLECTION AND METHODOLOGY 14 3.1. Data Collection 14 3.2. Research Methodologies 16 3.2.1. Key-Route Main Path Analysis 16 3.2.2. VOS Clustering 19 4. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 22 4.1. Data Description 22 4.2. Country Distribution of SME Researches 24 4.3. Top Publishing Journals 27 4.4. Top Authors 28 5. SME KNOWLEDGE TRAJECTORY 30 5.1. Stage 1 (1978 - 1989): SME Policies and Institutional Stakeholder Relationship 31 5.2. Stage 2 (1990 - 1995): SME Growth and Regional Development 32 5.3. Stage 3 (1996 - 2005): Social Capital and Human Resources 33 5.4. Stage 4 (2006 - now): CSR and Sustainability 35 6. SME RESEARCH THEMES 50 6.1. VOS Clustering 50 6.2. Clustering Basic Statistics 51 6.2.1. Clustering Overview 51 6.2.2. Cluster Distances, Top Authors and Country Distribution 53 6.3. Macroeconomics 57 6.3.1. SME Policy 57 6.3.2. Micro and Small Businesses 60 6.4. Corporate Strategy (SME Business Strategy and Innovation) 63 6.5. Corporate Ethics 68 6.5.1. SME Business Ethics and Sustainability 68 6.5.2. Work Environment in SMEs 71 6.6. Corporate Functions 73 6.6.1. SME Finance 73 6.6.2. Information and Knowledge Management in SMEs 77 6.6.3. Operation Management in SMEs 80 6.7. Consolidation of Main Path Analysis and VOS Clustering Results 83 7. CONCLUSION 87 7.1. SME Knowledge Trajectory 87 7.2. Meaningful SME Research Themes 89 7.3. Research Limitation 90 APPENDIX A. SME QUERY 91 REFERENCES 92

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