“…Several studies have used the scoping review in their research for the goal of analyzing and examining the nature, range or size of available evidence to explore the scope of literature on a specific topic (Gardner et al, 2018;King & Grobbelaar, 2020). It is considered as an appropriate method to be adopted especially when the topic has been studied in multiple academic fields such as the case of innovation (van Niekerk, Manderson, & Balabanova, 2021) and deemed to be suitable for obtaining an overview of existing research (Armstrong, Hall, Doyle, & Waters, 2011;Spies, Grobbelaar, & Botha, 2020).…”