Interrogating the essence of literature review to social and management science research in the 21st century

Abstract

This paper is on Interrogating the Essence of Literature Review to Social Science and Management Science Research in the 21st Century. The explanatory survey research design was used in this paper and the secondary method of data collection was adopted to provide explanation on literature review which is a very important item on social and management science research. There are two challenges facing literature review application in the 21st century and those are the wrong use of literature review and the other one is the temptation by the review to apply outdated literatures, it is based on this that this paper recommends that supervision of writeup is required, so as to help research determine the most favourite type of literature review to be used and researchers and presenters are advise to avoid outdated literature to support their writing, it is also suggested that literature outside ten years should be avoided.