HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY
OF HIGHER EDUCATION
HI6008 Assessment Two
Business Research Literature
Review
Due Friday 4pm of Week 06,
8-12 pages excluding
references, worth 30%
This is an individual
assignment.
Literature
Review is to be submitted by Friday 4pm in Week 6.
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.
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.)
