A guide to study literature review to apply the agile literature review approach

A guide to study literature review to apply the Agile literature review approach (ALRA) [i.e. the consulting oriented type]:

The agile literature review approach requires knowledge from the mainstream literature review literature (re: the video resources). Literature review study with regard to an MBA dissertation project informs research gap analysis and proper clarification on dissertation project contextualization. The 4 unique characteristics of the ALRA are:

1. it is management-concerns driven. (re: the management-concerns diagram)

2. it is done in an agile (spiral) way to heed the incremental learning efforts under tight time constraint.

3. it is done in a focused way, by sparing much more efforts on the core-focus-domain items, than on the non-core-focus-domain ones (re: the theoretical framework level-0).

4. it is done under a holistic theoretical framework that is sensitive to factors in the external environment, organizational capabilities, outcomes and solutions realms (re: all the ALRA diagrams: the notion of zoning).

2 additional advices:

Advice 1. Doing some exploratory literature review study is useful for converting your management-concerns diagram (mainly in the language of the stakeholders in the case study) into a theoretical framework level-0 (using more management subject terms at the category level [rather than the code level] with better quality.

Advice 2: When writing up the dissertation report chapter on literature review, you need to pay attention to the following two writing tasks:

1. Examine enough academic ideas in your writing: core-focus-domain item: 6 academic ideas per core-focus-domain item; 1-2 academic ideas per non-core-focus-domain item; try to at least adopt 1 item from zone 2 as a core-focus-domain item; the number of core-focus-domain items should 1-2, preferably 2).

2. Review academic ideas in two main directions per theoretical framework level 1a item.

** An additional reading on ALRA (an academic article). (this article compares the mainstream literature review approaches and the ALRA).

A related reading on literature review practice: a note about quality