Literature reviews as independent studies : guidelines for academic practice

Kraus, Sascha (author), Breier, Matthias (author), Lim, Weng Marc (author), Dabić, Marina (author)

Review articles or literature reviews are a critical part of scientific research. While numerous guides on literature reviews exist, these are often limited to the phi- losophy of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures, triggering non-par- simonious reporting and confusion due to overlapping similarities. To address the aforementioned limitations, we adopt a pragmatic approach to demystify and shape the academic practice of conducting literature reviews. We concentrate on the types, focuses, considerations, methods, and contributions of literature reviews as inde- pendent, standalone studies. As such, our article serves as an overview that scholars can rely upon to navigate the fundamental elements of literature reviews as stand- alone and independent studies, without getting entangled in the complexities of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures.

• Language: English
• Keywords: industrial organization, information technology, innovational activity, literature reviews, bibliometrics, meta analysis, methods, contributions
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 2577-2595
• Numbering: Vol. 16
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-143812
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 1863-6683
• DOI: 10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8
• COBISS.SI-ID: 128293891
• Publication date in RUL: 12.01.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Review of managerial science
• Shortened title: Rev. manag. sci.
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 1863-6683
• COBISS.SI-ID: 514963737

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: industrijska organizacija, informacijska tehnologija, inovacijska dejavnost

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Libera Università di Bolzano within the CRUI-CARE Agreement