A Bibliometric Analysis of Published Articles on Management Information Systems (MIS)

This paper aimed to explore trends in management information systems (MIS) research from 2017 to 2021 and compare their contributions based on different countries and authors. In particular, this study presents a bibliometric analysis of MIS highlighting key themes including, effective top MIS journals, authors, contributing countries, source types, sponsoring institutions, document languages, and subject areas, within the past five years. The data were chosen from Web of Science and Scopus databases based on defined search terms relating to MIS. Microsoft Excel 2016 was used to summarize bibliometric features, including the number of publications, subject areas and country contributions. Based on the search results, a total of 3624 papers were included. The results showed that most of the articles were published in journals and conferences, mainly in English. Additionally, most of the research in MIS was in the computer, engineering, medicine and management sciences fields and China contributed the largest percentage of articles (17%). The “Journal of Physics”and the“International Conference on Information Systems Development” had the highest publication number, while, the European Commission, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Science Foundation were the top funding institutions.The outcomes provide a global perspective of the MIS field, identifying the works that have had the greatest impact, the main study traditions or themes that have been explored in MIS studies. Structural analyses revealed changes in the MIS over time. The paper concluded with suggestions and accumulated knowledge for future study. Keywords: Bibliometric analysis, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, MIS field. DOI: 10.7176/IKM/11-4-14 Publication date:November 30th 2021

The relationship between capital structure and performance of non-financial firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange

The main objective of the current study is to examine the relationship between capital structure and firm’s performance particularly focusing on the Jordanian firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange. The current study uses 95 sample firms from non-financial firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange. The period of study is 5 years (2013-2017). The series of regressions have been shown and the results are reported based on fixed effect model. The findings show that all variables represent capital structure by Long Term Debt to Total Assets, Total Debt to Total Assets, Size, Sales Growth, Tangibility, and Liquidity have the relationship with firm’s performance represent by ROA and Tobin’s Q. Total Debt to Total Assets and growth have a positive significant relationship with firm’s performance. Meanwhile, The Long-Term Debt to Total Assets and Liquidity show insignificant relationship with firm’s performance. Similarly, Tangibility has a significant negative relationship with ROA and Tobin’s Q

The Relationship between Capital Structure and Performance of Non-Financial Firms Listed on the Amman Stock Exchange

The aim of this study is to take a step forward to examine the relationship between capital structure and firm performance particularly concentrating on the firms listed on Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The current study uses 95 sample firms from non-financial firms listed on ASE. The period of the present study is (2013 - 2017). The regressions have been shown and the results are showed rely upon the fixed effect model. The results show that all variables represent capital structure by Total Debt to Total Assets, Long Term Debt to Total Assets, Firm Size, Sales growth, Tangibility, and Liquidity have the relationship to firm’s performance represents by return on assets and Tobin’s Q. Sales growth and Total Debt to Total Assets have statistically positive significant relationship with firm’s performance. Meanwhile, Long Term Debt to Total Assets and Liquidity show a statistically insignificant relationship with firm performance. Similarly, Tangibility has a statistically negative significant relationship with Tobin’s Q and return on assets. Lastly, the study is contributed to top managers by providing value of an effective and efficient capital structure to firm performance in Jordanian business environment, by facilitating them in improving their capital structures to maximise shareholders’ wealth as well as findings of this study will be important to other researchers by providing empirical evidence on the influence of capital structure on firm performance. Keywords: Amman Stock Exchange, Capital Structure, Firm’s Performance, Jordan DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/13-2-09 Publication date: January 31st 202