Guides for your systematic literature review
Practical, evidence-based guidance for business and management researchers — from search strategy to peer review.
How to Screen Abstracts for a Systematic Literature Review
A step-by-step guide to abstract screening for business and management researchers. Learn how to screen thousands of papers efficiently, document every decision, and satisfy your supervisor and peer reviewers.
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Systematic Literature Reviews
How to write, apply, and document inclusion and exclusion criteria for a systematic literature review in business and management. Covers PICO, PCC, SPIDER, CIMO frameworks, PRISMA 2020 reporting, and common errors.
Best Databases for a Systematic Literature Review in Business and Management
Which databases to search for a business and management SLR, Web of Science, Scopus, ABI Inform, EBSCO BSC, and Google Scholar compared. Evidence-based guidance with benchmark data from published management reviews.
Why Systematic Literature Reviews Get Rejected, and How to Avoid It
The insider editorial perspective on why management SLRs are desk rejected or fail peer review, covering synthesis failures, search strategy problems, the ten reviewer questions, and a pre-submission checklist.
Systematic Literature Review or Bibliometric Analysis? How to Choose
A practical decision framework for choosing between a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis in business and management research, including when to combine both in a hybrid approach.