At what point does a theoretical framework come into literature review? Are they supposed to be different independent topics in research, or can a theoretical framework come early in literature review to avoid lots of repetitions?
If it's to early, before you have analyzed the structure and the relationship of the parts of a work, you risk to read mainly your theoretical input. It's a matter of flair. There are lots of misinterpretations because of the "to early". The work itself has to lead you to the theory. But that's simply said .... and in the end a feat.
A literature review should be "true" to what is read, and not in any way distort it by injecting a later, "foreign" note into it. That way no justice is done to the original material, and the "review" becomes in a way part of the later author's view. That may be offered, but only AFTER an "objective" review has been presented. A reader has a right to expect an earlier view to be reported in an objective fashion.
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Dear Omale Juliana ,
In reply to your Discussion Question "At what point does a theoretical framework come into literature review? Are there supposed to be different independent topics in research?" In my opinion, you first need to select a topic in your research field, which is Business and Business Entrepreneurship, I believe. After you have selected a topic that interests you, then you need to find out if there exist any recent publications, including books and articles in journals or business magazines, which focus on the topic you have selected. You should not try to cover more than one main topic in a research paper. As you begin to read articles and make a list of articles and books you encounter, you should begin to see a pattern of related subtopics, which will help you to organize your research outline. Furthermore, you will also begin to see if other researchers in Business and Business Entrepreneurship make mention of relevant theories and/or theorists. If they do, the complete source information will be shown in their list of References and/or Works Cited and/or Bibliography.
As your research project progresses, you may see several interesting general topics, which you may wish to take into consideration. If it is necessary for you to include theory, you should consider choosing the topic in which there is adequate prior theoretical material, at least two or three articles or books. Be sure to use quotation marks whenever you directly quote your sources. Be sure to keep an accurate list of all of the sources you read. You can always set them aside later, but you may want to go back and re-read some of them while you are working on your project.
The two basic organizational guidelines to follow as you indicate in your question are (1) theoretical framework; and (2) literature review. Proceed systematically. First, you need to outline your paper into a "framework," which means that you systematically analyze the theory or theories into (1) general; and (2) specific. A sentence outline will help you to provide a strong "framework" for your research project/paper. Within each subhead in your theoretical framework, select the articles, books, theorists, secondary theoretical proponents and insert each one of these within each one of the categories that form your theoretical outline.
Next, prioritize which of the parts in your outline you want to develop; in other words, which one do you have the most to say about? Here, you can decide if you want to take a broad view and devote an equal amount of space to each of the subcategories in your theoretical framework, or, on the other hand, if you wish to emphasize one of them, in which case, you can decide to make the most interesting subtopic the subject you discuss at length in the main body of your project/paper.
Part of your decision-making will depend on the availability of research materials. Time will also be a factor. If this is a paper project to fulfill requirements for a course assignment, then you need to limit your theoretical framework, maybe even to one main theory. This will greatly simplify your literature review, because your presentation of the literature review will be focused on only one theory.
Best wishes.
Sincerely.
Nancy Ann Watanabe
They are not two independent entities. The literature review includes reviewing the theoretical framework too. So, I share what you said I mean to minimize repetitions here and there the theoretical frame should come at the onset of the literature review. And thereby serve its function of guiding decisions related to literature review emphasis as well as other research decisions throughout!