Quality of academic references to use for literature review: a note for MBA students

Quality of academic references to use for literature review: a note for MBA students.

When doing literature review for an MBA dissertation project, students need to use academic references that are directly relevant to the research task on hand. For example, if your research task is: to evaluate the strategic management policy of ABC Ltd, the top priority is to consider references from the strategic management literature and use specific strategic management theories and models. 

The issue I want to raise is that, all business management subjects are interdisciplinary in nature. In particular, strategic management theories could consider academic theories from some other disciplines, including some foundational disciplines, such as Economics. Thus, for a student to do literature review to address a research task that is about strategic management, using a reference from the foundational discipline of Economics is acceptable, BUT this is not the most preferred choice for such a literature review task.

More generally, for a marketing research task not to use marketing references and for a human resource management research task not to use HRM references would constitute a material quality weakness of the student's literature review endeavor. 

Last question, what do you mean by "marketing reference"? For example, the reference comes from academic journal on marketing. Another example is that the reference is from a business journal with an article title that explicitly mentions a specific marketing theory, such as XXX marketing model, YYY marketing tactic framework, etc..