Researching and Conceptualizing an Effective Literature Review

2022 ◽  
pp. 222-239
Author(s):  
Stephanie Welch ◽  
Emily Lahr ◽  
Jessica Webb
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The World ◽  
Conducting Research

Literature reviews are an integral part of the world of academia. They provide an avenue for the existing body of knowledge to be modified, summarized, outlined, and evaluated for the development of future research. While there are an overwhelming number of resources and scholarship on most topics, literature reviews prove to be difficult to construct. Literature reviews should provide new perspectives on existing bodies of knowledge, and they should also critically analyze the current literature in the field of study or bring to light conflicting perspectives or gaps in the literature. This chapter seeks to provide a systematic approach to understanding, conducting, and structuring literature reviews. Topics will include the purpose of literature reviews and key misconceptions, conducting research while evaluating quality and purpose of sources, writing the review with attention to purpose, method, audience, and rhetoric, and most common classifications of reviews and the methodology behind each.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE WASTE IN ORGANIZATIONS: A REVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helio Aisenberg Ferenhof ◽  
Susanne Durst ◽  
Paulo Mauricio Selig
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Competitive Pressure ◽  
Knowledge Conversion ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

In this paper, we are interested in the knowledge that is “wasted” in organizations, that is existing relevant knowledge that is overlooked in the process of knowledge conversion. Given the competitive pressure firms are facing in today´s business environment, a waste of knowledge is not only costly but also dangerous. This means that we consider knowledge from a knowledge at risk perspective. Having this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to review research on knowledge waste in organizations to establish our current body of knowledge regarding this topic. The study consists of a systematic review of 51 peer-reviewed articles addressing knowledge waste in organizations. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no systematic literature review on this topic has previously been published or presented. The topic seems to be a promising field for intensive research and offers a variety of future research avenues. In view of practitioners, the study´s finding may enable an increased awareness towards the areas where existing knowledge is at the mercy of “waste”. This can assist practitioners to better cope with risks related to this waste and, therefore, better exploit the (limited) knowledge base available.

Business model innovation: past research, current debates, and future directions

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mokter Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge about business model innovation (BMI) and suggest avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review approach was adopted with thematic analysis being conducted on 92 articles. Findings The body of knowledge for this concept is in its infancy and is highly fragmented. This study therefore attempts to consolidate this fragmented knowledge. It reveals dominant themes, establishes coherence, and identifies conflicting arguments in the current literature. It also points out gaps in the research and highlights new directions for research. Research limitations/implications This study analyzed articles that were found based on a systematic literature review approach. Practical implications This study identifies some fundamental issues that managers need to understand regarding BMI. Originality/value The main value of this study lies in its synthesis of the current knowledge of BMI.

Exploring BIM-triggered organisational and professional culture change: a systematic literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonali Alankarage ◽  
Nicholas Chileshe ◽  
Raufdeen Rameezdeen ◽  
David J. Edwards ◽  
Aparna Samaraweera
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Considerable Impact

Purpose Building information modelling (BIM) has had a considerable impact on the socio-technical aspects of construction organisations. Culture has been considered an essential element in BIM practice. Hence, this paper aims to explore existing research relates to culture in the BIM context. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted based on the PRISMA guidelines using 104 articles published between 2011 and 2020 and directed with a descriptive and content analysis. Findings The SLR results give evidence that culture in the BIM context is still an under-researched topic. Culture has been considered as both a dependent and independent factor in the BIM domain. Organisational BIM culture is a collection of fundamental beliefs established in a BIM using organisation and passed to new employees with the use of BIM. BIM using organisations are have either weak or strong BIM cultures. Proper analysis and understanding of the BIM culture of different organisations are necessary to realise the strategies of transformation from a weak BIM culture to a strong BIM culture. Originality/value To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first SLR in BIM research that investigates the role of culture in the BIM setting. This study contributed to the existing body of knowledge by proposing a conceptual framework to understand and change a weak BIM culture of an organisation to a strong, matured BIM culture. This SLR serves as a future research basis in BIM-triggered culture.

Muslim Activism: A Survey across the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The second chapter is a literature review. The first section tackles the different theological positions Muslim scholars have posited with regard to activism. This is important as we find that some of these stances guide, or are used to justify, the various forms of activism. I further discuss the types of Muslim activists, and the social movement literature, in order to ground the findings of this book within a field of study. The idea is that the book should be relevant beyond Singapore or even Islamic studies, and locating the book within the literature of social movements serves this purpose.

scholarly journals Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi: ‘Guan-Xi’ Interaction to Form a Multicolored Chinese Knot

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 643-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ping Li ◽  
Steven Shijin Zhou ◽  
Abby Jingzi Zhou ◽  
Zhangbo Yang
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Western Scholarship

ABSTRACTGuanxiis one of the most popular topics in Chinese and Western scholarship concerning social ties in China. However, several problems in research onguanxipersist, and multiple debates are still ongoing without much consensus in sight. This study has two goals. First, we offer a systematic review of the current literature onguanxi, especially by differentiatingguandyads fromxinetworks. This reconceptualization ofguanxienables us to clarify the concept ofguanxiby differentiating its two dimensions. Second, based on this literature review, we propose a redirection of future research onguanxisuch thatguandyads andxinetworks are not examined in isolation; rather, their holistic and dynamic interaction is the most fruitful avenue for future research, especially the four mechanisms of their interaction. The proposed reconceptualization and redirection are our two contributions to the literature.

scholarly journals KORUPSI, PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DAN KEMISKINAN DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Junaidi I Ketut Patra
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Financial Report ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Developing Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Conducting Research

Some countries have been faced to corruption stage. Especially developing region, corruption has became a disaster humankind and occur a global issue, because it is very disturbing cycle of the world economy. In many cases corruption related to financial report manipulation. One of the factor fraud rate is accounting have leave religion aspect in their report. A revolution of solution must be born in the globe. to reduces and combating the level of corruption, but on the other hand accounting makes corruption becomes more fertile. This research uses the literature approach and is expected to be one of the concepts for future research in conducting research on the prevention of corruption for accounting sector. Based on literature study we found that the approach to culture and religiosity in Indonesia will be more effective in preventing corruption. This is caused by the people of Indonesia, which consists of many tribes, cultures, beliefs and religions.

scholarly journals Development of a general crowdsourcing maturity model

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (55) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Carlos Mario Durango-Yepes ◽  
Víctor Daniel Gil-Vera
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
General Model ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Clear Description

The article presents a general model of crowdsourcing maturity (MGMC), focused on measuring the maturity of managerial, behavioral and technological aspects that support the activities of crowdsourcing in organizations. As methodology, it was used a systematic literature review, taking into account the low number of research publications and the low number of literature reviews prescribing practices of Crowdsourcing Maturity Models. It has been developed an assessment tool that accompanies this model to facilitate practical applications. The results of this study indicate that the maturity model developed can serve as a useful tool to describe and guide the efforts to implement such concept, providing a clear description of the current situation, and guidelines to follow. To assess its validity and improve generalization, future research can apply the Crowdsourcing Maturity Model proposal to different contexts

scholarly journals Before a teenager starts to change the world. Adolescent entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Simborowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Research Gap

Adolescence is a period of heightened search for one’s identity and formation of one’s psychosocial self. Is this significantly different from entrepreneurial experimentation and identification of market opportunities? The main goal of this systematic literature review was to discover the existing body of knowledge about adolescent entrepreneurship, to identify a potential research gap, and to identify existing trends. The result indicates that in the eyes of most researchers, entrepreneurship has nothing in common with the joyful process of creating something new without looking at the resources available. They try to convince us that adolescents need to be prepared for entrepreneurship – properly nurtured, shaped and educated.

scholarly journals Design and validation of a questionnaire to measure the acceptance of telemedicine by healthcare professionals in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Verfürth
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Field Test ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Spending ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The World ◽  
External Variables ◽  
Organization Policy

Abstract Background: Telemedicine allows healthcare professionals to manage patient treatments remotely and to benefit from the interaction of telemedicine centers. Even though telemedicine responds to the current burdens in healthcare systems, these complex infrastructures depend on technology, financing, organization, policy, legislation, and, not least, on their corresponding acceptance by the user. Little is known in this context about the drivers for this acceptance by healthcare professionals giving treatment. Germany, with the highest healthcare spending in the world, is particularly lagging here.Methods: A literature review was conducted to identify the acceptance factors that had already been detected and frequently confirmed. These factors were evaluated according to the coverage of the interactive infrastructures with telemedicine centers and how accurately they fitted Germany. The identified factors were adapted, and missing factors were designed, via an idea collection for items. The reliability of the developed constructs was tested using a field test to check the constructs using item revision analysis.Results: Frequently supported external variables, taken from 17 filtered studies covering the technical, organizational, social, legal, and individual context, were identified. However, the review showed that there was less focus on the German setting and the interactive aspect, so the market-related variables were adapted and new constructs of “trust in the telemedicine center” and “relationship to patient” were added. Ten variables were proven to have a reliability, measured with Cronbach’s Alpha, of more than 0.7.Conclusion: This paper enhances the already existing technology acceptance studies in healthcare by covering German specifications and the interactive character of TSSs. A corresponding questionnaire has been developed ready for future research.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Holistic Construct

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Konys
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Entrepreneurship ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Feasible Path ◽  
The Many

In recent years, conducted businesses have been increasingly expected to obtain more sustainable forms, with many added determinants. Indeed, sustainability-related entrepreneurship still faces complex choices among conventional entrepreneurial factors, while being urged to consider three main pillars of sustainability. Thus, this work is focused on the development of sustainability-related entrepreneurship by reflecting the sustainable needs of entrepreneurship. Due to the fact that it is not clear for the sustainability-related entrepreneurship what the valuable and most influential factors stimming its development are, the detection of basic components and their correlation becomes a major motivation of this work. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct an attempt to identify a comprehensive set of SE (sustainable entrepreneurship) factors providing a structural overview in making insights into the factors/determinants of SE. It assists researchers and entrepreneurs in obtaining clear, informative pictures about SE factors. The applied research methodology is based on a systematic literature review which is conducted using the PRISMA methodology, simultaneously ensuring repetitiveness and lack of bias in this process. To retrieve and condense the immense amount of bibliographic information, a bibliometric analysis is adopted to perform in co-occurrence analysis of keywords determining SE factors and different detailed forms of distribution analysis. The expected outcome is to provide the classification schema of applied keywords in sustainable entrepreneurship literature as part of a comprehensive literature review, which is presented in order to uncover, classify and systematize the current research. As a result, a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors is also established. It offers a feasible path of investigation for researchers aiming to build a consistent body of knowledge about sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing a conceptualization and systematization that can be applied across the many contexts in which sustainable entrepreneurship is expressed, for example, sustainable actions and sustainable development contexts. The present research aims to yield a successful attempt of identifying the comprehensive set of SE factors, as well as to establish a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors. Providing a macroscopic overview of the main factors of SE in the form of conceptualization of the proposed construct will capture the unique organizational characteristics of sustainable enterprises and facilitate the research into capability building, innovation and competitive advantage in sustainable enterprises. It supports both researchers and entrepreneurs in shaping up and refining future research activities and investments in line with the policy of SE.

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