Assessment:
Literature Review:
This will consist of
developing a comprehensive literature review chapter for the business research
proposal. You will have to identify a business research topic, describe the
literature on the research topic and provide hypotheses based on the literature
for the research questions you have already defined in your research proposal
in HI6007.
It is a special form of
information gathering where you present the known body of knowledge relevant to
the issue(s) or problem(s) you are addressing
The literature review is NOT
just a string of authors, names, pages and references. It is structured as if you are developing an
argument explaining why you need to undertake your research. Possibly, you
might point to: a gap in the literature, or an issue or question that needs
more evidence or research.
From week 04 and 05 tutorials
you learnt how to develop a literature review.
A strong suggestion is to
follow the following format discussed in week 05:
1. Introduction to Literature Review
Start with introduction which
includes a list of the topic you will do a literature review on, what your
hypotheses are from these topics that you are starting out with (what you think
is true about the topics).
E.g. I believe outsourcing
for IT services I still growing and providing better quality for companies.
4 key
words:1) cost to study
1)
Marketing new business
2)
products to sell
3)
customer services
Hypotheses:Your
opinion about “keywords”
-eg;
Online business is not expensive to set up but if you a lot of services it gets
more expensive.
Cost
to set up business: 1st references: from literature you write what
experts say negatives (disadvantages). Positive (Advantages)
1.1 Topic 1
Define your 1st key word or phrase. Provide
strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4
references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your
conclusion.
1.2 Topic 2
Define your 2nd key word or phrase. Provide
strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4
references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your
conclusion.
1.3 Topic 3
Define your 3rd key word or phrase. Provide
strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4
references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your
conclusion.
1.4 Topic 4
Define your 4th key word or phrase. Provide
strengths and weaknesses from literature about the topic. Provide at least 4
references. Analyse your hypothesis about this topic and discuss your
conclusion.
Add Topics as you see fit to build your literature review here ….
1.5 Conclusion:
Finish with conclusion which
includes a list of the topic you discussed in the literature review, a summary
of what your literature research discovered and a conclusion on the hypotheses
from these topics that you started with.
(E.g. After studying the
literature on outsourcing for IT services, there are a lot of issues in quality
of customer service and product quality when it comes to some of the
outsourcing IT service providers.)
conclusion: Is your
hypotheses is correct?
The literature
agrees/disagrees with key hypotheses cost set up online business.
