Best-Practice Recommendations for Producers, Evaluators, and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews

Aguinis, H (通讯作者),George Washington Univ, Sch Business, Dept Management, Funger Hall,Suite 311,2201 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052 USA.
We categorized and content-analyzed 168 methodological literature reviews published in 42 management and applied psychology journals. First, our categorization uncovered that the majority of published reviews (i.e., 85.10%) belong in three categories (i.e., critical, narrative, and descriptive reviews), which points to opportunities and promising directions for additional types of methodological literature reviews in the future (e.g., meta-analytic and umbrella reviews). Second, our content analysis uncovered implicit features of published methodological literature reviews. Based on the results of our content analysis, we created a checklist of actionable recommendations regarding 10 components to include to enhance a methodological literature review's thoroughness, clarity, and ultimately, usefulness. Third, we describe choices and judgment calls in published reviews and provide detailed explications of exemplars that illustrate how those choices and judgment calls can be made explicit. Overall, our article offers recommendations that are useful for three methodological literature review stakeholder groups: producers (i.e., potential authors), evaluators (i.e., journal editors and reviewers), and users (i.e., substantive researchers interested in learning about a particular methodological issue and individuals tasked with training the next generation of scholars).
ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
卷号:26|期号:1|页码:46-76
ISSN:1094-4281|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
George Washington University; Morgan State University; Kuwait University
被引频次(WOS)
38
被引频次(其他)
38
180天使用计数
10
2013以来使用计数
25
EISSN
1552-7425
出版年
2023-1
DOI
10.1177/1094428120943281
学科领域
循证管理学
关键词
methodological literature review research synthesis methodological resources qualitative methods quantitative methods transparency recommendations methodological improvements
WOS学科分类
Psychology, Applied Management