Hi,
I am working on my literature review for my thesis. There are very limited numbers of paper in this field. Therefore I feel like I am pulling information with a tweezer. I am working on the effects of something (let's call it A) on the field of another thing (let's call it B). There are some papers discussing both A and B, but they are very limited. Since the number of paper is limited, I am taking knowledge from the articles on B even the main subject is not related to A. For example, if the A is discussed in part of findings or conclusion I am taking this knowledge and citing that article.
Is this a right approach?
Thanks
This is ablsolutely right .In one of my research papers Article Factors impacting innovation performance for entrepreneurs in India
I have tried this because these causal relationships were available in very few other past literature papers.I had little data but the paper got published because of the niche that it had.
Yes, and few papers means your research is more original :)
Hopefully the searching strategies as per the following publications could further help:
- Hart, C. (2007) Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
- Rowley, J. and Slack, F. (2004) Conducting a literature review, Management research news, 17, 6, pp. 31-39.
- Timmins, F. and McCabe, C. (2005) How to conduct an effective literature search, Nursing Standard, 20, 11, pp. 41-47.
- Wakefield, A. (2014) Searching and critiquing the research literature, Nursing Standard, 28, 39, pp. 49-57.
- Younger, P. (2010) Using Google Scholar to conduct a literature search, Nursing Standard, 24, 45, pp. 40-46.
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