Bibliometric Analysis of Debt Financing Semiotics

One of the biggest economic issues facing businesses today is indebtedness, which has a direct impact on an organizational performance. The best balance of equity and debt is the most crucial financial choice, and it has a big influence on an enterprise's financial performance. The primary external finance strategy employed by businesses is debt financing. Debt finance has significantly increased in recent years, which shows that businesses are expanding economically. The notion of indebtedness, which is connected to the fact that the firm largely employs foreign money to fund its assets, is tied to the issue of debt financing. Small enterprises often use less outside funding than large enterprises. Small ones have lower levels of debt because they get less foreign funding. The enterprise's attempts to boost cash during tough financial conditions are the reason for the lack of interest in external finance. The likelihood that an enterprise will use outside funding to support its operations increases with size. Despite the fact that these enterprises are more indebted, financial institutions view them as less hazardous, which improves their access to credit. The main aim of the paper is to make clarify the basic concepts associated with the issue of corporate debt. Prior to the actual analysis, a thorough review of the publications was carried out by locating the most pertinent authors, nations, and articles in the Web of Science database. The VOS Viewer, a tool for building and displaying bibliometric networks, was used to evaluate all the keywords that were required to build a bibliometric map in the field of indebtedness. Additionally, a study of the regularity of collaboration between authors and countries was conducted. According to the findings of the keyword co-occurrence study, debt and capital structure are the two terms that are most closely related, and China and the United States are the two countries with whom co-author relationships are most important.