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The art of crafting a systematic literature review in entrepreneurship research

2020; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11365-020-00635-4

1555-1938

Sascha Kraus, Matthias Breier, Sonia Dasí-Rodríguez,

Innovation and Knowledge Management

Abstract Systematic literature reviews are an increasingly used review methodology to synthesize the existing body of literature in a field. However, editors complain about a high number of desk rejections because of a lack in quality. Poorly developed review articles are not published because of a perceived lack of contribution to the field. Our article supports authors of standalone papers and graduate students in the Entrepreneurship domain to write contribution-focused systematic reviews e.g. by providing a concrete guideline. Our article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a systematic literature review and how they can be overcome. Furthermore, we provide a combined list of highly ranked journals in the Entrepreneurship domain as a basis for quality appraisal. Finally, this article builds a scenario for the future of the systematic literature review methodology and shows how technological improvements have changed this methodology and what can be achieved in the future.