Week 2 Flashcards
1
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Systematic literature review
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strict ‘search and analysis protocol’
2
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Meta-analysis
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this merges the results of earlier quantitative studies and presents a quantitative analysis for those
3
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Narrative literature review
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the goal is to inform research and demonstrate the gaps in the existing knowledge
4
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Why a narrative literature review?
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- Can help you to refine the research ideas
- To obtain insight on your topic/RQ
- To make sure you’re not repeating previously done work
- To position your own research within the existing body of knowledge
5
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Two methods to organize your sourches
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- Mindmap
- Relevance tree
6
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Academic literature
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About exploring the theory
7
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Professional literature
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About exploring the practice
E.g.: managerial problems
8
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Types of academic literature
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- Conference and working papers
- Articles in academic journals
- Academic books
- Theses and dissertations
9
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Five steps systematic literature search
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- Build an information pool
- Apply filters to reduce the pool size
- Perform a rough assessment of sources in order to reduce the pool size
- Analyze literature in the pool
- Refine filters or stop the search
10
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Snowballing
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- Reference tracking
- Citations tracking
11
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Types of professional literature
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- reports and white papers
- professional journals
- newspapers
- social media
12
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Good literature quality
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- Relevance
- Quality
- Sufficiency
13
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Different types of claims
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- Exploratory studies: how large/frequent/important certain things are
- Theory-building studies: how concepts relate to each other
- Theory-testing studies: wheter hypothesis needs to be rejected
- Decision science studies: what the optimal decision of system design is
14
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Academic article quality
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- Number of citations is high
- transparently
- reflections on methodological quality and demonstrated effort to ensure it
15
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Academic journal quality
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- check journal rating
- ERIM journal list
