Hello,
I have a question that I believe this group may be able to help me with.
For some background/context, I'm currently working with a small team within ALA-BRASS-Business Reference in Academic Libraries to build a local guide which identifies evidence synthesis within the business disciplines. We've had some success finding studies in the management, marketing, strategy, and entrepreneurship literature; as I'm sure will come as no surprise to some of you. Additionally, there has been some reinforcement among our working group of some of what Zahra had mentioned at ESI -- that some systematic reviews [particularly in the social sciences] are actually "systematic literature reviews."
In the course of work, we were wondering if anyone in this community is aware of any attempts to evaluate ES claims? Admittedly, we haven't begun searching for rubrics, and of course there was some discussion of ES principles and "claims" at the Institute; however, can anyone help us elucidate rubrics or assessments for evaluating ES projects that make false claims about their methods?
I hope this makes sense. It feels like many business faculty have hijacked the term "systematic review" for the purposes of boosting citations, if nothing else.
Anyway, thanks for any leads.
Benjamin Hall
University of Southern California
hallbenj@usc.edu
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Benjamin Hall
Business Librarian
University of Southern California
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