Using grounded theory as a method for rigorously reviewing literature

By J. F. Wolfswinkel, Elfi Furtmueller, Celeste Wilderom. European Journal of Information Systems, 2013

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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A Framework for Guiding and Evaluating Literature Reviews (2015, positive): “…X Oxman (1994) X Pawson et al. (2005) X Petersen et al. (2008) X Shea et al. (2007) X Torraco (2005) X Webster & Watson (2002) X Whittemore (2005) X Wolfswinkel et al. (2013) X As a third and final step, we reflected on the usefulness and necessity of each activity, or guideline, in the review…”
On being ‘systematic’ in literature reviews in IS (2015, methodology): “…a broad literature on literature reviews in IS and beyond (Hart, 1998; Webster and Watson, 2002; Finn, 2005; Levy and Ellis, 2006; Schwarz et al., 2007; Ridley, 2008; Feak and Swales, 2009; Machi and McEvoy, 2012; Bandara et al., 2011; Wolfswinkel et al., 2013; Boell and Cecez-Kecmanovic, 2014).”
Linking information systems and entrepreneurship: A review and agenda for IT‐associated and digital entrepreneurship research (2018, methodology): “…the few applications already discussed in the literature with their established labels: For example, one application was named “ unit of analysis ” according to Zott et al., 2011) with the existing literature on business models (Strauss & Corbin, 1990; Wolfswinkel et al., 2011; Xiao et al., 2013).”
STEM Education in Early Childhood: A Review of Empirical Studies (2020, neutral): “The analysis of the findings in these papers followed the three phases of generating grounded theories (Charmaz, 2000; Wolfswinkel et al., 2013): open coding, axial coding and selective coding.”
Analysing supply chain integration through a systematic literature review: a normative perspective (2014, neutral): “There are other methodologies proposed by reviewing literature e.g. Grounded Theory as a methodology for rigorously reviewing the literature by Wolfswinkel et al., (2013).”
Digital business ecosystem: Literature review and a framework for future research (2019, methodology): “applied the tenets of grounded theory literature review method (Wolfswinkel et al., 2013).”
Factors affecting adoption of online banking: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling study (2015, methodology): “We drew on Grounded Theory Literature Review method [100, 142] to identify and synthesize the factors affecting consumers’ pre-and post-adoption of the online banking, as presented in our two proposed research models depicted in Fig.”
Electronic HRM: four decades of research on adoption and consequences (2017, background): “The only exception is the study of DeSanctis (1986) who empirically verified operational consequences: cost savings, effectiveness and efficiency gains.”
Glaser or Strauss? Considerations for selecting a grounded theory study (2016, neutral): “As such, I had to unpack Strauss’ processes with the supposition that they are intrinsic in his work (Wolfswinkel, Furtmueller, & Wilderom, 2011).”
Achieving Rigor in Literature Reviews: Insights from Qualitative Data Analysis and Tool-Support (2015, methodology): “We propose using grounded theory for analyzing literature inductively and following the grounded theory literature review method adapted for IS research by Wolfswinkel et al. (2013).”
How Green FinTech Can Alleviate the Impact of Climate Change—The Case of Switzerland (2020, neutral): “Therefore, in order to analyze the existing theory in more detail, a literature analysis was undertaken, comprising five steps [25]: (1) definition of the scope of the analysis, (2) literature search, (3) selection of the final sample, (4) corpus analysis and (5) presentation of the findings.”
Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: a review, analysis and extension of the literature (2018, background): “Relevant to conceptualizations of academic entrepreneurship ecosystems, a grounded theory approach focuses on interrelationships and dependencies within and beyond a body of literature (Wolfswinkel et al. 2013).”