A framework for rigorously identifying research gaps in qualitative literature reviews

2015 International Conference on Information Systems: Exploring the Information Frontier, ICIS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Müller Bloch, Christoph ^a   Kranz, Johann ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Literature analysis; Literature review; Research gap; Research methods methodology

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH; ITS APPLICATIONS; LITERATURE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES; MODUS OPERANDI; REPLICABILITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART PROCEDURES;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 85126593598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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