Review of Managerial Science

, volume 16 , issue 8 , pages 2577-2595

Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice

Sascha Kraus ^{1, 2}

Matthias Breier ³

Weng Marc Lim ^{4, 5, 6}

Marina Dabić ^{7, 8}

Satish Kumar ^{5, 9}

Dominik Kanbach ^{10, 11}

Debmalya Mukherjee ¹²

Vincenzo Corvello ¹³

Juan Pineiro Chousa ¹⁴

Eric Liguori ¹⁵

Daniel Palacios Marqués ¹⁶

FRANCESCO SCHIAVONE ^{17, 18}

Alberto Ferraris ^{19, 20}

Cristina Fernandes ^{21, 22}

JOÃO J. FERREIRA ²¹

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Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy |

Department of Business Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa |

School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland |

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Sunway University Business School, Sunway University, Sunway City, Malaysia |

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Faculty of Business, Design and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching, Malaysia |

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School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia |

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Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA |

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School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

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Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India |

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Chair of Strategic Management and Digital Entrepreneurship, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany |

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School of Business, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India

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College of Business, The University of Akron, Akron, USA |

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy |

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Department of Finance, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |

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Rowan University, Rohrer College of Business, Glassboro, USA |

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School of Engineering Design, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain |

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Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, Parthenope University, Naples, Italy |

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Paris School of Business, Paris, France |

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Department of management, University of Turin, Turin, Italy |

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Laboratory for International and Regional Economics, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia |

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Department of Management and Economics & NECE Research Unit in Business Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal |

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Centre for Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2022-10-14

Springer Nature

Review of Managerial Science

scimago Q1

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SJR: 2.316

CiteScore: 16.3

Impact factor: 9.6

ISSN: 18636683, 18636691

DOI: 10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8

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Abstract

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 philosophy of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures, triggering non-parsimonious 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 independent, standalone studies. As such, our article serves as an overview that scholars can rely upon to navigate the fundamental elements of literature reviews as standalone and independent studies, without getting entangled in the complexities of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures.

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Kraus S. et al. Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice // Review of Managerial Science. 2022. Vol. 16. No. 8. pp. 2577-2595.

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Kraus S., Breier M., Lim W. M., Dabić M., Kumar S., Kanbach D., Mukherjee D., Corvello V., Pineiro Chousa J., Liguori E., Palacios Marqués D., SCHIAVONE F., Ferraris A., Fernandes C., FERREIRA J. J. Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice // Review of Managerial Science. 2022. Vol. 16. No. 8. pp. 2577-2595.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8

UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8

TI - Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice

T2 - Review of Managerial Science

AU - Kraus, Sascha

AU - Breier, Matthias

AU - Lim, Weng Marc

AU - Dabić, Marina

AU - Kumar, Satish

AU - Kanbach, Dominik

AU - Mukherjee, Debmalya

AU - Corvello, Vincenzo

AU - Pineiro Chousa, Juan

AU - Liguori, Eric

AU - Palacios Marqués, Daniel

AU - SCHIAVONE, FRANCESCO

AU - Ferraris, Alberto

AU - Fernandes, Cristina

AU - FERREIRA, JOÃO J.

PY - 2022

DA - 2022/10/14

PB - Springer Nature

SP - 2577-2595

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VL - 16

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@article{2022_Kraus,

author = {Sascha Kraus and Matthias Breier and Weng Marc Lim and Marina Dabić and Satish Kumar and Dominik Kanbach and Debmalya Mukherjee and Vincenzo Corvello and Juan Pineiro Chousa and Eric Liguori and Daniel Palacios Marqués and FRANCESCO SCHIAVONE and Alberto Ferraris and Cristina Fernandes and JOÃO J. FERREIRA},

title = {Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice},

journal = {Review of Managerial Science},

year = {2022},

volume = {16},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {oct},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8},

number = {8},

pages = {2577--2595},

doi = {10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8}

}

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Kraus, Sascha, et al. “Literature reviews as independent studies: guidelines for academic practice.” Review of Managerial Science, vol. 16, no. 8, Oct. 2022, pp. 2577-2595. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00588-8.

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Review of Managerial Science

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