Using theoretical framework level-0 as an agenda for literature review

Using theoretical framework level-0 as an agenda for literature review in the agile literature review approach could be done in the following way:

1. Use the academic ideas covered in the level-0 theoretical framework to do literature search on academic publishers' websites and Google Scholar.

2. Compile study notes on the academic literature that comprise the following academic ideas: (i) about the definitions of the academic ideas, (ii) about points of debates and research gaps on the academic ideas, (iii) about analytical notions, techniques and theories underlying the academic ideas, and (iv) about research methods that have been used to study the academic ideas. A theoretical framework populated with academic ideas so gathered is called theoretical framework level 1a. To do this task well, the researcher needs to also spare time to study literature review skills, e.g. see videos such as [this one].

3. Especially from (iii), develop research tasks for the various components of the theoretical frameworks. For example, if the academic idea is is employee-driven innovation, your research task can be: to evaluate how well ABC company is employing employee-driven innovation to support service innovation in the company by conducting semi-structured interview with a few chosen middle managers and operational staff.

4. Once all the academic ideas have been examined to produce a number of research tasks as associated with specific theoretical framework components, the theoretical framework level 1b is produced. [It needs to be stressed that the literature review be able to also shed light on how some of the components and academic ideas of the theoretical framework are associated with each other.]

5. Finally, research methods can be mapped onto the theoretical framework level 1b to come up with 1b + research maps [or, called the theoretical framework level 1c].