A note on research objectives in the agile literature review approach

 A note on research objectives in the agile literature review approach (ALRA):

1. Research objectives (items as statements) are derived from management concerns (items as statements). For example: 

The management concerns item of : Worried about human resource development capability of ABC Ltd can be transformed into the theoretical framework item (i.e. a high-level research objective) of: To evaluate the human resource development capability of ABC Ltd.

2. The research objectives as derived from the management-concerns diagram now form the diagram of theoretical framework level-0.

3. Specifically, the theoretical framework level-0 comprises a set of related research objectives. These research objectives, in the context of theoretical framework level-0, are also called items in the framework diagram. They are also called the high-level research tasks. 

4. The theoretical framework level-0, comprising a set of related research objectives, serves as an agenda to do literature review. The researcher uses the key words in the diagram items to do literature search. The academic ideas so gathered into the diagram of theoretical framework level-0 produces theoretical framework level 1a.

5. Make sure that your literature review of the academic ideas in theoretical framework level 1a has been done both vertically and horizontally.

** A related reading is on the desirable features of research objectives in ALRA.