Review research in management, like other research traditions, demands a methodological compass to advance coherent and credible knowledge claims. Yet, the established landscape of review research lacks a common framework for guiding and assessing its methodological rigor. We conducted an exploratory scoping review, analyzing a large sample of review articles published in the Journal of Management. The review focuses on reported practices dealing with five themes embedded within all review articles: their purpose, type, design, execution, and internal alignment. By comprehensively examining manifest practices, the review reveals crucial insights into the progress and evolving methods employed in management research reviews. Synthesizing those insights with existing conceptions of rigor, we present a conceptual framework including promising research directions on the methodological rigor of review articles.

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管理研究评论中方法论的严谨性

与其他研究传统一样，管理学评论研究需要方法论指南来推进连贯且可信的知识主张。然而，现有的综述研究缺乏一个共同的框架来指导和评估其方法论的严谨性。我们进行了探索性范围界定审查，分析了《管理杂志》上发表的大量评论文章样本。该评论重点关注所报告的实践，涉及所有评论文章中嵌入的五个主题：目的、类型、设计、执行和内部一致性。通过全面审查明显的实践，该评论揭示了对管理研究评论中所采用的进展和不断发展的方法的重要见解。将这些见解与现有的严谨性概念相结合，我们提出了一个概念框架，其中包括关于评论文章方法论严谨性的有前景的研究方向。