Thanks for your interesting presentation. I’m especially interested and have researched about the circular economy and sustainability in business-related areas. There are a lot of publications in the context of circular economy, collaboration, and business models. I’m curious about how you reached a small final amount of articles to be considered in the qualitative synthesis. Please, could you explain more deeply the exclusion criteria you used?
Good morning,
Thank you for your comment. Yes, you are right, it is a big field of research where you have to choose your exclusion criteria wisely. In our case, it was the focus on success factors that led to most exclusions. If the focus was not explicitly on these, we decided to exclude the article because we assumed that it was a by-product rather than a methodologically clean examination. When considering which methods are relevant, it was mainly the level of detail and the quality in the method description that led to the exclusion.
These exclusion criteria could be enforced at the earliest during the screening of abstracts, often only in the full-text review – something of which one should be aware when moving in this field via SLR.
I hope I could answer your question
Best regards
Jannis
Thanks for your interesting presentation. I’m especially interested and have researched about the circular economy and sustainability in business-related areas. There are a lot of publications in the context of circular economy, collaboration, and business models. I’m curious about how you reached a small final amount of articles to be considered in the qualitative synthesis. Please, could you explain more deeply the exclusion criteria you used?
Good morning,
Thank you for your comment. Yes, you are right, it is a big field of research where you have to choose your exclusion criteria wisely. In our case, it was the focus on success factors that led to most exclusions. If the focus was not explicitly on these, we decided to exclude the article because we assumed that it was a by-product rather than a methodologically clean examination. When considering which methods are relevant, it was mainly the level of detail and the quality in the method description that led to the exclusion.
These exclusion criteria could be enforced at the earliest during the screening of abstracts, often only in the full-text review – something of which one should be aware when moving in this field via SLR.
I hope I could answer your question
Best regards
Jannis