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Capital structure and firms' value: future research agenda and research stream through bibliometric approach

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  • Chandrika Prasad Das
  • Rabindra Kumar Swain
  • Manoj Kumar Dash
  • Suman Bindu

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This paper aims to present a synopsis of the academic research on capital structure and firm value using bibliometric analysis. The paper also attempts to detect the most traceable publications and authors in this domain. VOS viewer and bibliometrics R-package has been used to notice the publication trend and envision authors/countries/journals/institutions' performance on a sample of 286 relevant articles retrieved from the Scopus database between 1983 and 2020. The essential aspects of capital structure and firm value are identified, such as recent publications, the most influential researcher, the most cited articles, the top contributing journals, the top countries based on total citations and corresponding author, cluster analysis, treemap analysis, and Sankey diagram. The paper makes a vital contribution to corporate finance through a systematic literature review on capital structure and firm value. This article also depicts the future research agenda and research stream in capital structure.

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  • Chandrika Prasad Das & Rabindra Kumar Swain & Manoj Kumar Dash & Suman Bindu, 2025. "Capital structure and firms' value: future research agenda and research stream through bibliometric approach," International Journal of Business Excellence, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 35(2), pages 161-191.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbexc:v:35:y:2025:i:2:p:161-191
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