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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Systematic Literature Evaluation

SMP805 · Developing Research Capability — Week 3 of 16

CourseSMP805
Week3 of 16
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This week’s topics

Systematic Literature Evaluation

  1. Advanced multi-database search protocols
  2. Critical synthesis of scholarly discourse
  3. Identification of empirical, conceptual, and contextual gaps
  4. Structuring your critical literature review
  5. Literature Review Part 2: How to Do a Systematic Literature Review (#SLR)
  6. Public Health 250B - Lecture 24: Meta analysis/systematic reviews
  7. Public Health 250B - Lecture 23: Meta analysis/systematic re

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Search and evaluate relevant literature, draw conclusions and justify the need for further research.
  • 4.2 Evaluate existing studies by examining its methodological gaps, discrepancies in theoretical stance, findings and analysis.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: search and evaluate relevant literature, draw conclusions and justify the need for further research.

Study materials

Videos

  • Structuring your critical literature review · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 10 min · for registered students
  • Literature Review Part 2: How to Do a Systematic Literature Review (#SLR) · YouTube · Data-driven · 121 min · for registered students
  • How To Write A Literature Review | Research Project Tutorial · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 16 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • How to perform a literature review with free and open source software · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
  • Participative Leadership: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Empirical Budgeting Research in Accounting Journals: Review, Critique, and Research Agenda · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Organizational Problem Identification
  • Week 2: Research Problem Formulation
  • Week 3: Systematic Literature Evaluation
  • Week 4: Theoretical Paradigms and Disciplinary Debates
  • Week 5: Conceptual Frameworks and Theoretical Solutions
  • Week 6: Philosophical Underpinnings of Management Research
  • Week 7: Methodological Coherence
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Critical Appraisal of Empirical Research
  • Week 10: Doctoral Research Synthesis and Reporting
  • Week 11: Theoretical Defense and Research Justification
  • Week 12: Applying Developing Research Capability in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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