Many students consider a literature review an easiest part of academic papers. Certainly, there is a seed of truth in this notion, but let us emphasize that literature reviews have its own peculiarities. To complicate matters, there are research fields that are heavily focused on practice as opposed to purely academic disciplines. Therefore, writing such papers as Marketing research papers or management literature reviews can prove to be quite a problem.
 
In this article, we are going to provide you with several approaches of how to deal with management literature reviews correctly: where you should start, how to proceed, and how to finish in order to prepare a perfect literature review in management.
 
Management Literature Review: How to Start
 
Let us put it plainly: if you start completely from scratch, i.e. you do not have even the slightest notion of what your topic is, you will not write a winning management literature review. Still, it is likely that your tutor presented a list of literature to be studied and used. So, you already have a sort of foundation. If he/she did not, your first step is definitely to ask him to provide you with all necessary sources.
 
Management Literature Review: How to Proceed
 
Explore the reference lists provided at the end of recent research papers. Search for abstracts of cited papers and write a short list of all publications that relate to your topic.
 
When reading the first several articles of this list, you might need to explore the references of these papers as well. But you will soon notice that some papers are cited again and again, so your task will be to outline the contents of these publications. At this point, you can make the first draft of your management literature review.
 
Do note that sometimes it is enough to read a mere abstract of a paper to decide whether it should be included in your review or not. Still, do not forget to check some publications thoroughly, just in case. It will be a big fault to miss something important in your management literature review.