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Advancing Methodologies of Conducting Literature Review in Management Domain

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Review of Management Literature

Series Editor: Sudhir Rana

Review of Management Literature is a multi-disciplinary series presenting unique and ground-breaking literature reviews and examinations of new and emerging trends in research across the management discipline and beyond.

Examining broad disciplinary areas including new research developments in fields including Marketing, Operations Management, Finance, International Business, and HRM, as well as well as more focused studies on the big data and gamification in management literature, the series also explores practical research guidance with titles examining methodologies for conducting literature reviews in management domain.

Supported by a highly reputable editorial board from across the globe, the series will be an essential research resource to access and interpret cutting edge global developments from across the management discipline.

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Review of Management Literature

Volume 2

Advancing Methodologies of Conducting Literature Review in Management Domain

Edited by

Sudhir Rana

Gulf Medical University, UAE

Jagroop Singh

Gulf Medical University, UAE

And

Sakshi Kathuria

Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB), India

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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We dedicate this volume to all the academicians, scholars, and thought leaders who are going to expand the body of knowledge by utilizing literature review methodologies.

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About the Contributors

Aakanksha Uppal is an avid academician and research professional, having 171 years of Experience. She has a doctorate and also holds two Master’s Degrees, one is in Business Economics with specialization in Economics and Human Resource and the second one is in commerce. Her areas of teaching and research interests are human resource management, organization behavior, compensation management, etc. She is presently working as an Assistant Professor at Symbiosis Law School, Noida, constituent of Symbiosis International University, Pune. She is also the QIC coordinator at Symbiosis Law School, Noida. She is a keen researcher who keeps herself involved in doing good research and has written more than 25 research papers for conferences and Scopus indexed journals.

Alex Anlesinya (PhD, University of Ghana) is a multiple award-winning researcher, experienced lecturer/management trainer with extensive consulting experience. He is a Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour at De Montfort University, Leicester, England; and Associate Editor of Review of Business Management (RBGN). He has consulted for several institutions in Ghana. Alex received Best Paper Awards from several prestigious organisations including Emerald Publishing Limited; Wiley; Sage/FIIB Business Review; and was also valedictorian. Alex researches at the intersection of work, human resources and sustainability, specifically, talent management, sustainable HRM, decent work, CSR strategy, and grand societal challenges. He has published severally in high impact journals and presented in top international conferences.

Amna Farrukh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Management, FAST, NUCES, Pakistan. She has completed her PhD in Engineering Management from Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the environmental sustainability issues of manufacturing organizations in a developed and developing economy. She has conducted research on the environmental sustainability issues of the packaging industry in New Zealand and Pakistan to address the increasing environmental problems of plastic waste in these regions. She is passionate about promoting research in the areas of operations and business management, sustainability, environmental management, circular economy, lean six sigma, total quality management, supply chain management, and organizational theories.

Anubha Srivastava is an Assistant Professor in the management department at I.T.S Ghaziabad. She has been associated with the institution as faculty member since 2017. She is also the coordinator of the BBA program. She has extensive teaching experience spanning 11 years. Dr Anubha completed her PhD at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. She earned an MBA (International Business) and a Gold Medal from the honorable governor while studying at Bundelkhand University in Jhansi. Her research interests are in the area of marketing, digital marketing, and electronic banking, ranging from theory to design to implementation. She has two patents in her name and has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of management, particularly consumer behavioral studies in several areas of management.

Aymen Sajjad is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Business Management at the School of Management, Massey Business School, Massey University, New Zealand. Aymen’s research focuses on sustainability issues that confront organizations and societies including sustainable supply chain management, business sustainability, corporate social responsibility, United Nations sustainable development goals, and sustainable business strategy. He is an Associate Editor of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, FIIB Business Review, and The International Journal of Sustainable Society. He is also an active member of the Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Group at Massey Business School.

Ellen Pittman (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and also Managing Director at Amfractus Consulting, a boutique consulting firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Working between academia and consulting, Ellen specializes in organizational performance analysis and culture change in the health and human services, public administration, not-for-profit, and higher education sectors. Her doctoral studies culminated in the development of the novel “hive model for high performance cultures” – a biomimetic management model based on the principles of complex adaptive systems theory. She is particularly interested in research and theory that can be readily translated into real-world benefit. During the early days of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Ellen provided strategic policy advice to the Victorian Department of Health, and she has previously led large-scale change and reform programs, including the application of “lean thinking” for hospital process improvement.

Hussain G. Rammal is a Professor of International Business at the Adelaide Business School, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the founding Editor of the Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy book series, coeditor-in-chief of the Review of International Business and Strategy journal, the Real Impact Editor (Oceania) for the Journal of Knowledge Management, and Associate Editor of Business & Society journal. Hussain’s current research interests include the internationalization of services firms (trade in services), the transfer of knowledge across the inter- and intra-MNE networks, global talent management, international business negotiations, and faith & religiosity in business.

Jagroop Singh is an Assistant Professor for Operations Management (Supply Chain, QT, and Production) at the College of Healthcare Management and Economics, Gulf Medical University, Ajman (UAE). He earned his PhD degree with Financial Assistantship (Scholarship) from the Government of India under Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP-II). He worked as a postdoctorate researcher with Putra Business School (AACSB Accredited), Universiti of Putra, Malaysia. He has contributed to the society through his teaching and research commitments for the last 10 years.

Dr Jagroop Singh has published in journals of International repute (ABDC/ Scopus/SSCI), and serves as a reviewer for various international journals. He is also managing editorial responsibilities with SCOPUS indexed Emerald series “Review of Management Literature”.

Monu Pandey Mishra holds an MBA in HR from School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon, India. She has done her graduation and postgraduation from Banaras Hindu University and Allahabad University in India. She has more than 10 years of experience in industries such as healthcare, education, IT, and manufacturing and is the founder and Chief People Officer at Digital Musketeers, a digital transformation consultancy company. She has published in peer reviewed SCOPUS indexed journals. Her expertise includes but is not limited to change management, gender diversity management, and stress management. She is lifestyle coach and career guide for reputed schools and colleges in India.

Rahul Dhiman received his PhD from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (HP), Government of India and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Business Management at Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, a state University, Solan (HP), India. Dr Dhiman is in the reviewer board of many prestigious international journals and has several Scopus and ABDC papers in international journals of repute published by Taylor and Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Sage, Emerald, etc. He has presented papers at several international conferences across reputed public and private universities. Dr Dhiman has also visited a few European nations for teaching and research collaborations.

Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav is an Associate Professor at FORE School of Management (FSM), New Delhi. Here he is responsible for teaching, training, research, and consultancy. His teaching and research interests include marketing management, services marketing, research methodology, marketing research, and marketing analytics. He is a professionally acquired trainer for quantitative and qualitative research software and into the training of Bibliometric Analysis, SPSS, Jamovi, MAXQDA, and NVIVO. He has been associated with the Taylor’s University, Malaysia, BITS-Pilani, and University of Liverpool, UK, as an adjunct faculty.

Rajni is currently a doctoral student (SRF) in the Department of Management Studies in Bikaner Technical University (state university), Rajasthan. She qualified UGC-NET (JRF) in December 2019 and attained AIR-2. She has around 2.5 years of teaching experience and 2 years of industry experience. She has expertise in some of the data analysis tools like SPSS, AMOS, SMARTPLS, and Vosviewer. She has attended various international and national FDP’s/workshops/seminar/webinar/conferences and has few publications including Scopus indexed. Her research interests center around Quality of work life and workplace spirituality and Organization Citizenship Behavior.

Sakshi Kathuria is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Area at Fortune Institute of International Business (FIIB), India. Her current research focus spans social media, sustainability, and Industry 4.0 in the context of emerging economies. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Public Affairs, Technology in Society, and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. She is also Managing Editor of Emerald Book Series “Review of Management Literature”.

Samuel Ato Dadzie is a Senior Lecturer in the Business Management Department, Ghana, Management Institute of Ghana, and Public Administration department. He holds a PhD in International business from Vaasa University, Finland. He had earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree in International Business from Wolverhampton University, UK. His research interests are in international business, in particular foreign direct investment to emerging markets; strategies for entering and post-entry into African markets. In these areas, he has published in reputable international academic journals such as Journal of Transnational Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, and the International Journal of Emerging Markets. “Benchmarking: An International Journal, Journal of Strategic Marketing, and presented papers at several international conferences”.

Shalini Sahni is an Independent Researcher and is a founder of Koach Scholar. She has over 15 years of experience in academia and corporate. She is an internationally certified PPA Thomas and Emotional Quotient trainer. She has also conducted MDPs for companies like Parle G and Mancer Consulting. She has published papers in the ABDC category, Scopus, and WOS-indexed journals. She has taught papers like research methodology, performance management, and organizational development. She has conducted training on different research methods using various statistical softwares like NVIVO, VOSViewer, Biblioshiny, SPSS, and AMOS. Her areas of interest include human resource management, organizational behavior, conflict resolution in teams, organizational justice, and workplace diversity issues.

Sudhir Rana is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Strategy and Program Director at the College of Healthcare Management and Economics, Gulf Medical University, UAE. He has set in high standards in academics and research. He has published research articles in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, International Journal of Emerging Markets, The TQM Journal, Benchmarking, and Journal of Promotion Management among others. He is Editor-in-Chief of FIIB Business Review, Coeditor-in-Chief of South Asian Journal of Marketing, and Editor of two series Advances in Emerging Markets and Business Operations (Taylor and Francis) and Review of Management Literature (Emerald).

Vimal Srivastava is a practicing CSR and Sustainability expert having more than 15 years of experience. He is presently associated with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd and did his PhD in the area of CSR and sustainability. Considering equal importance to both research and industry practices, he has published various research papers in International Journals and his research areas are CSR, strategy, employee engagement, and sustainability.

Vinaytosh Mishra is an Associate Professor for Healthcare Management (Management, Digital Health, and Heath Analytics) at the College of Healthcare Management and Economics, Gulf Medical University, Ajman (UAE). He has more than 15 years of experience in industries like Healthcare, EdTech, Finance, and Information Technology. He has successfully filled out a patent for a device for the early detection of diabetes using nail fold capillaroscopy and serves as domain expert for AI implementation in healthcare for Al Habtoor Bikal.ai. He is also a mentor for leading business incubators in India and UAE. He has published in journals of international repute (ABDC/Scopus/SSCI) and served as an editorial board member of reputed journals such as Hospital Topics, Frontiers in Digital Health, and Abhigyan.

Foreword

It is our pleasure to introduce the second volume in the series “Review of Management Literature”. This volume focuses on literature review (LR) methodologies. Over our respective careers, we read, write, and review manuscripts, and many of us (editors) write decision letters on business management research contributions. In every case, we expect and like to see the extent to which the contribution at an individual level and the volume as a package offer a distinguished contribution/s. As knowledge and research writing impactful literature review papers continue to grow, the majority of scholars still struggle to understand the standard protocols and structures of LR papers. One of the dominant reasons is a lack of a common template and checklist that they can follow while writing their LR papers. Hence, it is pertinent to explore literature review methodologies further. This volume includes eight contributions explaining different LR methodologies. The distinguished contribution of this volume is looking to simplify the guidelines on conducting various LR studies utilizing Bibliometric, Critical, technology-based, PRISMA, and realist reviews. Additionally, the volume explains the POWER framework with empirical evidence and suggestions to write a review paper. The implications of this volume are important for scholarly communities in general and specific to those who read, write, review, and make decisions on literature review papers. This volume concretely broadens the debate on the science and methods behind LR studies.

This volume is important for both early as well as mature career scholars in exploring the ways of conducting LR studies. At the same time, we alert the authors not to showcase a few approaches just because it is important to have an approach in LR studies; instead, we motivate them to learn LR methodologies and opt for the approaches and frameworks judiciously.

This volume introduces both general guiding principles as well as specific frameworks for business management and social science scholars. We hope that this volume will foster learning and motivate more LR contributions in the business management field.

We are highly thankful to all the authors and reviewers for their valuable contributions in making this volume a useful project. And thanks to editor colleagues who agreed to spare their time and valuable knowledge in making the exclusive POWER framework introduced in this volume.

We thank all the members from the Emerald publishing team for helping us throughout this project. We highly appreciate their consistent efforts to the series Review of Management Literature.

Your suggestions and comments on this volume are warmly welcomed.