Locating Frameworks in Scholarly Studies

Your first three steps:

Describe what you are trying to learn about your topic $($business problem$).$

Identify the key concepts found in your purpose and project questions.

Complete the Keyword search grid. List the technical terms for these concepts that are relevant to your project, to ensure the chosen framework clearly expresses what you mean by each term.

Here is a Keyword Search Grid template you can use for this decision:

$1.$ What I Want to Know About My Topic:

$2.$ Key Concepts Framing My Purpose and Project Questions:

$3.$ Keyword Search Grid

$($a$)$ How the Concepts Come Together $($b$)$ Field$/$Domain $($c$)$ Concept

Framework

Model

Theory

Management Practices

Conceptual Framework

Applied Framework

Practitioner Model $($SHRM$)$

Consulting Model

Critical Review of$...$

Handbook of$...$