Examples of academic ideas, (often as analytical concepts) considered in theoretical framework level 1a (ALRA)

Examples of academic ideas (often as analytical concepts) considered in theoretical framework level 1a (used in the agile literature review approach [ALRA]).

Examples 1: concept 1: social media strategic capability; concept 2: environmental dynamism; concept 3: A moderated mediated model on business innovation and social media strategic capability of Zhang and Zhu (2021)

Example 2: concept 1: environmental dynamism

The examples are illustrative of the kind of academic concepts that are likely candidate concepts to be adopted to populate a theoretical framework level 1a. These are sensitizing notions that are associated with (i) explanatory, evaluative and creativity-stimulating views and mechanisms, (ii) intervention and measurement approaches,  and (iii) issues/ concepts sensitizing, challenging/ distinguishing, classifying and synthesizing methods,  as discussed in the academic literature. An academic concept can be explicitly or tacitly anchored on a  particular theoretical perspective (e.g. positivist, interpretive and critical perspectives) and organizational image (e.g., machine, culture, organism, psychic prison and instrument of domination, etc). Some academic concepts are complex while others are much less so; some academic concepts deal with broad topics (e.g. a consumer behavior framework) while others investigate narrow topics (e.g. a Gen-Z consumer behavior model on consumer electronic products). 

Note that academic article titles per se (even for a simplified statement of the nature of an article title) are not concrete academic concepts. Academic articles do include academic ideas (notably analytical notions) that could be highly relevant to a student's dissertation project work (e.g. informing research method design and, subsequently, conducting theory-driven analysis).

Some academic ideas students are familiar with are: Porter's 5-Force Model, Porter's Value Chain Model, Maslow's hierarchy of needs model and Core competence theory of Prahalad and Hamel (year...); make sure you include harvard referencing next to your academic idea name (i.e. [surname, year]).

Finally, note that for the construction of theoretical framework level 1a, academic concept definitions are not the academic ideas to be incorporated into the 1a framework. Nevertheless, concept definitions are inevitably discussed in the Chapter of Literature Review, so they are important in writing up the literature review chapter.

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