A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information Systems Research

Levy, Yair; Ellis, Tim

doi:10.28945/479

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“…A methodological review of past literature is a "crucial endeavour" (Webster and Watson 2002) for any academic research, and it is vital that this is done in a rigorous and comprehensive manner (Webster and Watson 2002, Walsham 2006, Levy 2006. The literature analysis strategy and approach is rarely given much attention, with most papers elaborating more on the empirical data collection and analysis phases of the research.…”

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Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

Conboy

2009

Information Systems Research

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Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the development and promotion of these methods have been almost entirely driven by practitioners and consultants, with little participation from the research community during the early stages of evolution. While these methods are now the focus of more and more research efforts, most studies are still based on XP, Scrum, and other industry-driven foundations, with little or no conceptual studies of ISD agility in existence. As a result, this study proposes that there are a number of significant conceptual shortcomings with agile methods and the associated literature in its current state, including a lack of clarity, theoretical glue, parsimony, limited applicability, and naivety regarding the evolution of the concept of agility in fields outside systems development. Furthermore, this has significant implications for practitioners, rendering agile method comparison and many other activities very difficult, especially in instances such as distributed development and large teams that are not conducive to many of the commercial agile methods. This study develops a definition and formative taxonomy of agility in an ISD context, based on a structured literature review of agility across a number of disciplines, including manufacturing and management where the concept originated, matured, and has been applied and tested thoroughly over time. The application of the texonomy in practice is then demonstrated through a series of thought trials conducted in a large multinational organization. The intention is that the definition and taxonomy can then be used as a starting point to study ISD method agility regardless of whether the method is XP or Scrum, agile or traditional, complete or fragmented, out-of-the-box or in-house, used as is or tailored to suit the project context.

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Section: Research Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

Conboy

2009

Information Systems Research

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“…In order to answer the research question, a literature review was carried out according to Levy and Ellis (2006). The following databases were researched for scientific literature from the areas business informatics, forestry, timber as well as pulp and paper industry: HoWiLit, ACM Portal, CiteSeer, EbscoHost, Elsevier, IEEE Xplore, InderScience, JSTOR, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley Online Library.…”

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First International Conference on Resource Efficiency in Interorganizational Networks – ResEff 2013 –

Geldermann¹,

Schümann²

2013

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“…Those lacking empirical tests were excluded. Backward references [36] provided further publications. One of the authors of a recent literature review [34] provided an appendix of literature focused on motivating information security policy compliance in organizations.…”

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“…1) Literature Review: Using the methodology in [31], we searched for literature using the terms 'behaviour change' and 'information security'. From notable research repositories providing access to peer-reviewed literature [36], we identified papers published from the year 2000 to date. Those lacking empirical tests were excluded.…”

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Voter, What Message Will Motivate You To Verify Your Vote?

Olembo¹,

Renaud²,

Bartsch³

et al. 2014

Proceedings 2014 Workshop on Usable Security

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Abstract-There is increasing interest in verifiable Internet voting systems that enable voters to verify the integrity of their vote on the voting platform prior to casting it, and any interested party to verify the integrity of the election results. The ease with which a vote can be verified plays a key role. Empowering individual voters to act as interested yet objective verifiers increases the probability of fraud detection. Verifying constitutes additional effort, something humans resist unless the benefits are compelling enough. Thus, what is the best way to provide such motivation? We report on a survey, distributed to 123 respondents, in which we explore the effects of three types of motivating messages on voters' intention to verify a vote, using a smartphone app. The motivating messages were intended to increase the intention to verify a vote. Our findings have persuaded us that further research on the use of motivating messages in the context of verifiable voting is warranted.

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A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information Systems Research

Cited by 942 publications

References 48 publications

Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

First International Conference on Resource Efficiency in Interorganizational Networks – ResEff 2013 –

Voter, What Message Will Motivate You To Verify Your Vote?

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