Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review

Best practice advice for literature reviews abounds, yet little advice is available for how to infuse a literature review with theory-generative insights that break out of knowledge silos. To address this issue, we provide guidance on reviewing a range of literature for theory-generative insights th...

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Main Authors: Gruner, Richard L., Minunno, Roberto
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2024
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97142
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description Best practice advice for literature reviews abounds, yet little advice is available for how to infuse a literature review with theory-generative insights that break out of knowledge silos. To address this issue, we provide guidance on reviewing a range of literature for theory-generative insights through a process of knowledge transfers from a source domain onto a target domain. To do so, mainly building on work concerned with analogical reasoning, we put forward a ‘breakout’ review model, which consists of three iterative stages. While we illustrate the process model in a supply chain management context, we aim to assist any organizational scholar interested in exploring cross-disciplinary literature for new ways of thinking.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-971422025-03-05T04:01:11Z Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review Gruner, Richard L. Minunno, Roberto Best practice advice for literature reviews abounds, yet little advice is available for how to infuse a literature review with theory-generative insights that break out of knowledge silos. To address this issue, we provide guidance on reviewing a range of literature for theory-generative insights through a process of knowledge transfers from a source domain onto a target domain. To do so, mainly building on work concerned with analogical reasoning, we put forward a ‘breakout’ review model, which consists of three iterative stages. While we illustrate the process model in a supply chain management context, we aim to assist any organizational scholar interested in exploring cross-disciplinary literature for new ways of thinking. 2024 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97142 10.1111/ijmr.12356 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ fulltext
spellingShingle Gruner, Richard L.
Minunno, Roberto
Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title_full Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title_fullStr Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title_full_unstemmed Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title_short Theorizing across boundaries: How to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
title_sort theorizing across boundaries: how to conduct a ‘breakout’ literature review
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97142