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Utilisation and development of Systematic Reviews in management research: what do we know and where do we go from here?
Several years since the introduction of systematic review in management
research, our paper takes stock of how the methodology has been used
thus far to elicit potential areas for improvement and a future best
practice agenda. It was our focus to investigate how synthesis methods
have been approached and how implications are spelled out for future
research, practice and, where relevant, policy. To address this, we
conducted a systematic review of systematic reviews published in
management research since the early 2000s (N = 391). We found that
whilst scholars adopted similar methodological steps, there was
variability in focus, with more attention paid to explaining the SRm
protocol and search strategy utilised, than on detailed analysis and
synthesis of the included studies’ findings. These aspects should be
addressed more explicitly from the outset as an integral aspect of an SR
protocol to support more refined application of relevant synthesis
methods to develop the field. We conclude with a guide for ‘best practice’
including recommendations and published examples where available and
an agenda for future refinement