Exploring the Link Between Risk Management and Performance of MSMEs: A Bibliometric Review

The repository contains 3 files used to make a biblimetric analysis of the articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases, with the goal to identify the literature trends concerning the connection between risk management and performance in MSMEs. the file "data file. xlsx" is the Excel file generated after the concatenation of the interogation results in Scopus and Clarivate databases. The search expresion used both in Scopus and Clarivate was: ( ( "risk management" OR "managing risk*" OR "risk identification" OR "risk assessment" OR "risk analysis" OR "risk evaluation*" OR "risk response*" OR "risk mitigation" OR "risk treatment*" ) AND ( "performance" OR "effectiveness" OR "efficiency" OR "efficacy" OR "Profitab*" OR "Return On*" OR "competitiv*" OR "productivity" ) AND ( "SME" OR "SMEs" OR "small and medium-sized enterprise*" OR "small and medium enterprise*" OR "small and mid-size enterprise*" OR "small and medium business*" OR "small and mid-size business*" OR "small and medium-sized business*" OR "micro firm*" OR "small firm*" OR "medium firm*" OR "micro enterprise*" OR "small enterprise*" OR "medium enterprise*" OR "micro business*" OR "small business*" OR "medium business*" OR "micro compan*" OR "small compan*" OR "medium compan*" ) ) the file "synonim dictionary.txt" contains a list of synonyms, used in bibliometrix package of R software (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017). the file "exclusion dictionary.txt" contains a list of the terms that were excluded from analysis, used in bibliometrix package of R software (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017).