What constitutes an excellent literature review? Summarize, synthesize, conceptualize, and energize

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A literature review chronicles conceptual and empirical achievements within a research stream. An excellent literature review accomplishes much more. Excellent literature reviews not only explain advances within a research stream (“summarize and synthesize”) but also provide a conceptual framework that captures the key elements of the research (“conceptualize”) and lay a foundation for future inquiry that can accelerate progress in advancing knowledge (“energize”). We accomplish two main tasks in this editorial. First, we offer details about what constitutes an excellent literature review. Second, we summarize the four literature reviews contained in this special topic forum and explain their excellent features.

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Ketchen, D. J., & Craighead, C. W. (2023, April 1). What constitutes an excellent literature review? Summarize, synthesize, conceptualize, and energize. Journal of Business Logistics. John Wiley and Sons Inc. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12339

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