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The problematizing review : a counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s argument for integrative reviews
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Alvesson, Mats and Sandberg, Jörgen (2020) The problematizing review : a counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s argument for integrative reviews. Journal of Management Studies, 57 (6). pp. 1290-1304. doi:10.1111/joms.12582 ISSN 0022-2380.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12582
Abstract
In this paper we provide a counterpoint to conventional views on integrative reviews in knowledge development, as exemplified by Elsbach and Van Knippenberg (2020). First, we critique their proposed integrative review by identifying and problematizing several key assumptions underlying it, particularly their idea that the integrative review can simply build on existing studies and lead the way to knowledge. Second, based on this critique, we propose as an alternative the problematizing review, which is based on the following four core principles: the ideal of reflexivity, reading more broadly but selectively, not accumulating but problematizing, and the concept that ‘less is more’. In contrast to the integrative review, which regards reviews as a ‘building exercise’, the problematizing review regards reviews as an ‘opening up exercise’ that enables researchers to imagine how to rethink existing literature in ways that generate new and ‘better’ ways of thinking about specific phenomena.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Knowledge management -- Methodology, Research -- Methodology, Research -- Evaluation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Management Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0022-2380 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 57 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1290-1304 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/joms.12582 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Alvesson, M. and Sandberg, J. (2020), The problematizing review: A counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s argument for integrative reviews. J. Manage. Stud., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12582. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Description: | Free access on publisher's site. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 April 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 April 2022 | ||||||||
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