Methods for Literature Reviews

What is a literature review? Literature reviews are foundational to research proposals, theses and dissertations, as well as scholarly books and articles. In addition to their place within larger pieces of writing, literature reviews are also published as a type of free-standing article. Let’s use a simple definition for a literature review: “a systematic syntheses of

Different types of literature review and brief illustrations

Our classification scheme is largely inspired from Paré and colleagues’ (2015) typology. Below we present and illustrate those review types that we feel are central to the growth and development in management. 1. Narrative Reviews The narrative review is the “traditional” way of reviewing the extant literature and is skewed towards a qualitative interpretation of