Skirting SLR's Language Trap: Reframing the ‘Systematic’ vs ‘Traditional’ Literature Review Opposition as a Continuum

A review of studies on information systems and SMEs in high ranked IS journals (2000-2014)

“…Our overall approach to this review was informed by Schultze's (2015) useful framework outlining a continuum of pluralistic literature review methods. In particular, we followed the principles associated with the 'interpretive literature review' end of this continuum to guide our article selection and analysis, as explained further in the next section.…”

“…In particular, we followed the principles associated with the 'interpretive literature review' end of this continuum to guide our article selection and analysis, as explained further in the next section. This was because the interpretive approach is most suited to identifying new future research opportunities (Schultze 2015) and to dealing with complexities in literature reviews (Boell and Cecez-Kecmanovic 2010), such as interpreting units of analysis (as explained later).…”

“…Further hermeneutic cycles of reading, interpreting and coding of the 61 articles were carried out by the first and second authors, consistent with the approach by Schultze (2015) and Boell and Cecez-Kecmanovic (2010), to understand how the three facets were manifested in the articles, and to develop emergent coding themes. The first author started the hermeneutic approach by reading the full text of all articles to identify initial coding themes relating to each facet.…”

Literature Reviews in IS Research: What Can Be Learnt from the Past and Other Fields?

“…Among the top 40 IS journals that Lowry et al (2013) identify, 17 journals explicitly welcome LRs as a research genre in their editorial statements and 36 journals have published at least one LR between 2000 and 2014 (Wagner, Prester, Roche, Benlian, & Schryen, 2016). MIS Quarterly provided the opportunity to publish "theory and review" papers in 1999 (Markus & Saunders, 2007;Watson, 2001), the European Journal of Information Systems recognized the need for stronger support of LRs (Rowe, 2012(Rowe, , 2014, Communications of the AIS published a special issue on LRs in 2015 (Tate, Furtmueller, Evermann, & Bandara, 2015), and the Journal of Information Technology recently published a debate on systematic LRs (Boell & Cecez-Kecmanovic, 2015a, 2015bChiasson, 2015;Oates, 2015;Schultze, 2015;Watson, 2015). IS authors have responded to the call for LRs by contributing more than 200 LRs to the above-mentioned set of top IS journals since 2000 (Paré, Trudel, Jaana, & Kitsiou, 2015;Wagner et al, 2016).…”

Value impact of social media: a perspective from the independent brewery sector

“…In order to focus these theories on the research topic, literature around social media and social media marketing is reviewed. The literature review takes an interpretative approach, more akin to traditional review principles than a strict systematic approach (Schultze, 2015), taking key influential texts and identifying areas that can be developed in line with the research objectives. The key areas considered are relationship marketing, anchored through the principles of service-dominant logic (SDL) and the co-creation of value.…”