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Systematic Literature Review
Economics and Business Administration
"A systematic literature review is an independent scientific method that aims to identify and evaluate all relevant literature on a topic in order to derive exact conclusions for the research question. (cited and translated from webpages of TU Berlin – Die Bibliothek Wirtschaft & Management)
Systematic Literature Review involves searching for, appraise and synthesize all available literature on a specific research question based on pre-specified inclusion and exclusion criteria. It can be carried out as an independent scientific method and thus differs from a ‘traditional’ literature search for a term paper or thesis.
Comparison | Traditional (narrative) literature search | Systematic literature review |
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Research question / topic | Topics are usually broadly defined; the aim of the research is to place one's own work in the existing scientific literature. | The research question should be answered by research. All relevant literature is identified in an unbiased, transparent and reproducible manner. |
Search | Not complete: The focus on ‘snowballing’ usually based on the author's level of knowledge and bibliographies of other researchers. | The aim is to find all published literature on the research question. The search process is documented precisely. |
Selection | Often unfounded selection / omission of publications | Reasons for selecting and omitting publications are made clear and determined by the research question. |
Quality check | Publications are often not checked for quality and bias. | Search results are analysed for quality and possible bias. |
Different types of reviews: https://deakin.libguides.com/systematicreview
There are various search and documentation standards that can be used as a guide. All SLR instructions have the following five points in common:
1. Question(s)
How do I formulate my research question(s)?
2. Search tools
Which search tools can I use?
3. Search
Start the search:
4. Die Überprüfung
How can I check the results of my search?
5. The Documentation
How do I document my search and the results
Consultating service
We offer individual advice:
- Briner, R. B. & Denyer, D. (2012): Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis as a Practice and Scholarship Tool. In: Rousseau, D. M. (Hrsg.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidence Based Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press, S. 112-129
- Clark, W. R., Clark, L. A., Rafo, D. M. & Williams Jr, R. I. (2021): Extending Fisch and Block’s (2018) tips for a systematic review in management and business literature. Management Review Quarterly, 71, S. 215–231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-020-00184-8
- Denyer, D. & Tranfield, D. (2010): Producing a Systematic Review. In: Buchanan, D.A. & Bryman, A. (Hrsg.): The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London: SAGE, S. 671-689
- Fisch, C., & Block, J. (2018): Six tips for your (systematic) literature review in business and management research. Management Review Quarterly, 68, S. 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-018-0142-x
- Hensel, P. G. (2021): Reproducibility and replicability crisis: how management compares to psychology and economics - a systematic review of literature. European Management Journal, 39, S. 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2021.01.002
- Hiebl, M. R. W. (2021): Sample selection in systematic literature reviews of management research. Organizational Research Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428120986851
- Snyder, H. (2019): Literature review as a research methodology: an overview and guidelines. Journal of Business Research, 104(C), S. 333-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.03
- Sutton, A. et al. (2019): Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 36 (3), S. 202–222. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12276
- vom Brocke, J. et al. (2015): Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search. Information Systems Research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 37. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.03709
- Zur Einbeziehung von „grauer Literatur“ in SLRs:
Adams, R. J., Smart, P. & Huff, A. S. (2017): Shades of grey: guidelines for working with the grey literature in systematic reviews for management and organizational studies. International Journal of Management Reviews 4, 19, S. 432-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12102 - Zum Snowballing:
- Wohlin, C. (2014): Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. EASE ’14: 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, London: ACM, S. 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/2601248.2601268
- Zur Suche nach Suchbegriffen:
- Farooq, U. et al. (2023):An assessment of the quality of the search strategy: a case of bibliometric studies published in business and economics. Scientometrics, 128 (8), S. 4855–4874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04765-8
- Marcos-Pablos, S. and García-Peñalvo, F.J. (2018): Decision support tools for SLR search string construction. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (TEEM’18), S. 660–667. https://doi.org/10.1145/3284179.3284292
- Zu Meta-Analysen:
- Gechert, S. (2022): Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis. Industrial and Corporate Change, 31 (2),S. 576–590. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtac005
- Irsova, Z. et al. (2023): Meta-analysis of social science research: A practitioner’s guide. Journal of Economic Surveys, 38(5), S. 1547–1566. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12595
- SLR in general:
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