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AoM Reference Style

This individual assignment is essentially a critical review of the key literature (mainly academic journal papers) on a specific topic. Particularly, you are required to write a literature review (LR) paper that is suitable for consideration by an academic journal for publication. To this end, you need to do some initial research to select an appropriate topic for your paper. A choice of ten topics is provided in the next section. After the topic of your semester paper has been selected, you need to do a comprehensive literature search on the chosen topic and conduct review (including summary, critical evaluation, and synthesis) of the key (i.e., most relevant and high-quality) papers you have found. In total, you are required to review at least 20 relevant journal papers, among which about 15 papers should be published within the last 10 years.

Keep in mind that writing an LR paper is a learning process. Therefore, if you do not have any experience in this type of academic writing, an efficient way to improve your writing skills is to read good LR papers. It is suggested that you should read as many LR papers as you can and learn how to critique and synthesise relevant papers. You can find many LR articles published by Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (SCM: IJ) and other reputable journals. Below is just one sample LR paper which is well structured and well written:

Damian Poer (2005) Sppl chain managemen inegraion and implemenaion: a lierare reie, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 252-263.

Structure

Generally, your semester paper should be structured in the format of a standard essay which consists of three components: introduction, body, and conclusion. In the introduction section, you are required to identify a particular (narrowly defined) topic for your paper and clearly define the scope of your literature review (e.g., limited to the key papers that have been published during the last 10 years if you have found too many relevant papers). Importantly, you need to explain the main reason(s) for choosing the topic and indicate one (or max. two) major theme(s)/issue(s) you have identified through your literature review and will critique later on.

In the body of the paper, you would normally organise your review around the major theme(s)/issue(s) (as indicated in the introduction section) based on a critical analysis of the key papers on the chosen topic. Please note that you should adopt the synthesis model, not the summary model, which will be explained in the workshop on semester paper in teaching week 4. In the conclusion section, you need to highlight the major findings of your literature review and discuss the implications of those findings. For example, are there any important research questions or problems that remain unaddressed in the literature?

Please note that the publisher of SCM: IJ (i.e., Emerald) has its own structured format for the abstract of a paper which has been adopted by journals such as SCM: IJ. Again, you should refer to papers published by SCM: IJ for the format of the abstract of your paper, which usually includes the following elements:

Purpose
Design/methodology/approach
Findings
Research limitations/implications Practical implications
Originality/Value
Keywords