How to search and study academic theories in the literature review task quickly: for my Research Project students (MBA/ Housing Studies)

How to search and study academic theories in the literature review task quickly: for my Research Project students (MBA/ Housing Studies)

The steps: 

1. To search for a few relevant academic theories to be be reviewed and, subsequently to discuss the learning results in your dissertation report, Chapter 2 (Literature Review): ask generative AI to suggest 3-4 major theorists on the management topics of your dissertation projects. Then choose a theorist and his/her theory you want to study.

2. Ask generative AI to highlight the main ideas of the theorist's theory and 1-2 claims in terms of Toulmin's model of arguments. (The method is called theory-decomposing); you could also ask generative AI to further clarify the ideas with illustrative examples with reference to a research theme you are interested in.

3. After performing steps 1-2 a few times, study the resulting AI comments, and do some conventional literature search and review on the relevant academic literatures (notably on peer-reviewed academic articles).

4. Now conduct the literature review and synthesis task and write up Dissertation Report Chapter 2. It is useful to study the dissertation report chapter 2 template offered by me.

Further readings

A collection of notes on theory-/ methodology-decomposing (Housing Studies) / for MBA students