Using the agile literature review approach for scholar-practitioner development

About three years' ago, I started the academic project to develop the agile literature review approach (ALRA) to guide my MBA students to do their final year dissertation projects. By now, the ALRA has been employed by me to guide quite a number of part-time MBA students in Hong Kong to complete their dissertation projects.

For those of you new to ALRA, I recommend the following two readings:

1. What is this thing called management-concerns diagramming?

2. An examination of the theoretical framework usage.

The ALRA is designed to be used in two ways:

1. To guide MBA students to do final-year dissertation projects, notably ones with case study research.

2. To guide MBA graduates to utilize academic literature in the field of management for dealing with real-world managerial problems that they encounter from time to time.

A key long-term benefit of practicing ALRA is to build up scholar-practitioner competence for its users. I thus recommend ALRA to readers interested in intellectual competence development in the field of business management.