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

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Fisch, Christian, Block, Joern·2018·Management Review Quarterly

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  • Kuckertz and Block (2021) and Fisch and Block (2018) acknowledge a lack of clear guidelines and provide the criteria for reviewing articles in management and business research.

    “while Kuckertz and Block (2021) and Fisch and Block (2018) acknowledge a lack of clear guidelines and provide the criteria’s for reviewing the articles in management and business research.”

    From Whither compassionate leadership? A systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Fisch and Block 2018

    The paper’s Abstract (page not given) offers six tips for literature reviews in business and management research, including advice to specify and justify article-screening and exclusion criteria. It notes that the term “systematic literature review” is not clearly defined and that understanding varies, but it does not say there is a lack of clear guidelines; it says several comprehensive guides already exist. It advises reviewers to develop criteria rather than providing a fixed set of criteria for reviewing articles. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • The review mostly adopted the stages and criteria proposed by Tranfield et al. (2003), Kuckertz and Block (2021), Fisch and Block (2018) and Wolfswinkel et al. (2011).

    “We mostly adopt the stages and criteria proposed by Tranfield et al. (2003), Kuckertz and Block (2021), Fisch and Block (2018) and Wolfswinkel et al. (2011).”

    From Whither compassionate leadership? A systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Fisch and Block 2018

  • A systematic review brings together all existing research, follows rigorous processes and methods to focus on a specific question/s, integrates and interprets the findings to increase understanding.

    “A systematic review brings together all existing research, follows rigorous processes and methods to focus on a specific question/s integrates and, interprets the findings to increase understanding (Denyer and Tranfield 2009; Fisch and Block 2018; Kuckertz and Block 2021; Tranfield et al. 2003).”

    From Whither compassionate leadership? A systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Fisch and Block 2018

  • PRISMA offers detailed and step-by-step instructions for identifying and evaluating previous studies in relation to the current research area.

    “PRISMA was used in this study because it offers detailed and step-by-step instructions for identifying and evaluating previous studies in relation to the current research area [14, 15].”

    From The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges (2022) · cites this paper as [15]

    The section headed “Identify the relevant literature in a systematic way” gives advice on search strategies and screening criteria. A search of our copy for “PRISMA” and the claimed step-by-step instructions found no passage identifying PRISMA or describing what it offers, so the PRISMA-specific claim cannot be verified from this paper. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Fisch, C., & Block, J.
Affiliations
Universität Trier (DE)
Corresponding author
Fisch, Christian
Venue
Management Review Quarterly
Published
2018-04
Volume
68
Issue
2
Pages
103-106
ISSN
  • 2198-1620 (ISSN-L)
  • 2198-1639
OpenAlex
W2802739669
Cited by
516
References
8
Citations by year
2026: 66 · 2025: 81 · 2024: 82 · 2023: 88 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 6
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Management Review Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Funders
Universität Hohenheim
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Business Strategies and Management Research
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Business and Management Studies
Keywords
systematic reviews, literature review methodology, transparency, reproducibility, research questions, business and management research

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