Systematic literature searching and the bibliographic database haystack

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-180

  Page, Douglas ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boolean algebra; Database; Leadership; Literature review; Meta analysis; Search filter; Social research; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880094462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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