Finding More Needles in More Haystacks: Rigorous Literature Searching for Reviews in Management and Organization Studies. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL.
This collection contains supplementary material on the article "Finding More Needles in More Haystacks: Rigorous Literature Searching for Reviews in Management and Organization Studies." This article demonstrates a six-step protocol for setting up a rigorous search. Instead of sampling from a limited set of journals, it focuses on databases and uses information in thesauri, key articles, and automated text analysis to construct a search string. It details decision aids on database inclusions and syntax adaptations and discusses additional search techniques, accompanied with best practice examples. The six-step process provides practical considerations for authors and develops assessment criteria for journal editors and reviewers to judge the rigor of the search in terms of construct, internal, external validity, and reliability. Thus, the article facilitates more rigorous syntheses in MOS by focusing on the heart of any such endeavor, the search. The following material is included in this collection:
- S1: short paper on a qualitative analysis of reviews in management and organizations studies + Excel sheet for sample selection
- S2: application example illustrating the method suggested in the main paper