A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information Systems Research

By Yair Levy, Timothy J. Ellis. Informing Sci. Int. J. an Emerg. Transdiscipl., 2006

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

What is an Information System? (2015, background): “Therefore, the identification of relevant literature is not a straight forward process that can be undertaken at the beginning of a research project relying on strict keyword searches [58].”
Business intelligence in banking: A literature analysis from 2002 to 2013 using text mining and latent Dirichlet allocation (2015, background): “Text mining (TM) is a particular type of DM that is focused on handling unstructured or semi structured data sets, such as text documents (Fan, Wallace, Rich, & Zhang, 2006).”
Socially Assistive Robots in Elderly Care: A Mixed-Method Systematic Literature Review (2014, background): “…is to present an integrated report on published studies about SAR in the context of elderly care, to enable scholars to realize what is already known (Levy & Ellis, 2006) and connect ongoing studies to superior dialogue in the literature (Cooper, 1984; Creswell, 2009; C. Marshall & Rossman, 2006).”
The impact of role models on entrepreneurial intentions and behavior: a review of the literature (2020, methodology): “In a second step, we used backward and forward searches based on the articles’ citations and reviewed these findings (Levy and Ellis 2006).”
Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development (2009, neutral): “The ﬁnal deﬁnition of ﬂexibility is “the ability of an ISD method to create change, or proactively, reac-tively, or inherently embrace change in a timely manner, through its internal components and relationships with its environment.””
Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences - A scoping review (2019, methodology): “As an important part of the review process a meticulous quality assessment of included publications was conducted [17].”
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search in Information Systems Research (2015, methodology): “Literature reviews of this type are basically threephased processes of input (searching), processing (analyzing and synthesizing), and output (writing) (Levy & Ellis, 2006).”
Can Agile Project Management be Adopted by Industries Other than Software Development? (2014, background): “10 Project team location Verganti (1999); Zirger & Hartley (1996); Chin (2004); Highsmith (2004); Augustine (2005); Chow & Cao (2008); Qumer & Henderson-Sellers (2008); Chen, Damanpour, & Reilly (2010)”
The role of artificial intelligence in healthcare: a structured literature review (2021, methodology): “As suggested by [11, 41] and motivated by [42], keywords can be selected through a top-down approach by identifying a large search field and then focusing on particular sub-topics.”
On being ‘systematic’ in literature reviews in IS (2015, background): “…Cruzes and Dybå, 2011) and those from 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.,…”
The Research Audit Trail: Methodological Guidance for Application in Practice (2020, methodology): “…the procedures by which the literature review was conducted in accordance with key methodological guidance (e.g. Okoli, 2015; Brereton et al, 2017; Levy and Ellis, 2006; Pare et al, 2015; Vom Brocke et al, 2015; Carcary et al, 2018; Whittemore et al, 2014) in order to enable others to reproduce…”
Transformational Instructor-Leadership in Higher Education Teaching: A Meta-Analytic Review and Research Agenda (2016, methodology): “…485 4 Total number of records 1,341 1,205 1,350 3,896 73 Records after duplicates removed 35 Records from backward/forward search and author communications 5 Studies removed 18 Total studies included in review 22 search involved reviewing articles that cited the article (Levy & Ellis, 2006).”
Reconstructing the giant: On the importance of rigour in documenting the literature search process (2009, neutral): “However, one should note that the quality of contributions in conference proceedings is usually considered lower and less mature than those in journals (cf. Levy and Ellis 2006, p. 187).”
A Framework for Guiding and Evaluating Literature Reviews (2015, positive): “Since narrative and developmental reviews usually do not formally assess the quality of the primary studies they include (see step 4), they must find other ways to ensure the quality of the evidence on which they base their conclusions (Levy & Ellis, 2006a).”