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Erschienen in: Management Review Quarterly 2/2018

03.05.2018 | Editorial

Six tips for your (systematic) literature review in business and management research

verfasst von: Christian Fisch, Joern Block

Erschienen in: Management Review Quarterly | Ausgabe 2/2018

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With the start of our editorial term, we decided to extend Management Review Quarterly’s (MRQ’s) scope beyond (systematic) literature reviews1 to include also bibliographic studies, meta-analyses, and replication studies. Nevertheless, literature reviews have been and will continue to be a core element of MRQ. Literature reviews have given the journal a unique identity and are crucial in the pursuit of the journal’s aim, which is to summarize, categorize, and challenge existing knowledge in business and management research. In this editorial, we outline six tips that help (MRQ) authors to improve their literature review. …
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Note that the term “systematic literature review” is not clearly defined. In MRQ’s understanding, it refers to all literature reviews that follow a systematic, transparent, and reproducible process for identifying academic literature about a clearly defined topic or research question.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Six tips for your (systematic) literature review in business and management research
verfasst von
Christian Fisch
Joern Block
Publikationsdatum
03.05.2018
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in
Management Review Quarterly / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 2198-1620
Elektronische ISSN: 2198-1639
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-018-0142-x

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