Assessment Task:

Students are required to submit a literature review for their chosen project

Your literature review should be shaped by your argument and should seek to establish your theoretical orientation, along with your methodological choices. Your literature review needs to conclude with what you have demonstrated as a ‘need for research’ in the area. This is the primary statement for the justification of the research project.

The literature review needs to be organized with sub-headers in a meaningful manner based on your research topic. The language used in a literature review is often evaluative and demonstrates your perspectives of the literature in relation to your research question. Your 'voice' or your perspective, position or standpoint, should be identifiable in the literature review.

It is important that, firstly, your theoretical position is clearly and strongly stated and that your critical evaluations are an integral part of this document. Secondly, it important that your language indicates your own or other writers’ attitudes to the research question. The literature review always ends with a research question that will be the focus of the Master of Business Research thesis.

You should follow the outline below:

Title of literature review: In not more than 12 words state the title of your proposed research project and literature review

Research Cluster: Identify the Research Cluster aligned to your research project

 Cluster 1: Leadership and Management of Large Corporations

 Cluster 2: Leadership and Management of Not-for Profit Organisations

 Cluster 3: Leadership and Management of Start-ups, SMEs and Family Business

 Cluster 4: Leadership and Management of Technological and Digital Transformation

 Cluster 5: Leadership and Management of Sustainable Business Operations

 Cluster 6: Leadership and Management of Government and Multilateral Organisations

 Cluster 7: Leadership and Management of Tourism and Hospitality Organisations

Introduction

Provide an overview of the literature review. Indicate the objectives of the literature review. 

Literature review Use relevant headings and sub-headings to organize your literature review.

Conclusion

Your conclusion should provide a summary of the literature and show the gaps in the literature to be addressed by the research project, the proposed methods to be used and the expected contribution to the field of research from undertaking the research project.