Literature search in the Agile Literature Review Approach (ALRA)

Literature search in the Agile Literature Review Approach (ALRA)

E.g.: your theoretical framework level 0 includes two components, among others:

Component 3: To evaluate the supply chain capability of ABC Ltd.

Component 5: To evaluate how the organizational capability of ABC Ltd, including its supply chain capability, affects its business performance.

Now, when doing literature search for component 3, to begin with, your key words should be “supply chain management competence” and “supply chain management capability”. You then try to gather more specific academic ideas useful for conducting investigation on component 3.

For component 5, your main key word should be “supply chain management performance” and “supply chain performance”.

In short, although both components 3 and 5 are related to supply chain management and the two components are related in that component 3 affects component 5, the literature search tasks on them are different – they are interested in different academic ideas and the key words to use for literature search are different.