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Table 2

Research methods, procedures and purposes

Methodological aspect	Procedure adopted	Purpose	References
Enabler identification	Literature review + expert confirmation	Content validity	Alka et al. (2025b), Agarwal et al. (2021)
Expert selection	Purposive and snowball sampling with inclusion/exclusion criteria	Judgment quality	Alka et al. (2025a, b)
Data collection	Structured interviews	Consistency and depth	Alka et al. (2025a), Sreenivasan and Suresh (2024)
Questionnaire design	Pairwise comparison using a 5-point Likert scale	Reliability of judgments	Alka et al. (2025a, b, c)
Disagreement handling	Majority consensus and interpretive clarification	Judgment consistency	Alka et al. (2025b)
Sample size	12 experts, based on saturation	Theoretical saturation	Alka et al. (2025c), Kaur et al. (2016), Dalvi-Esfahani et al. (2025), Kharb et al. (2024)
Model validation	Expert review + MICMAC classification	Structural understanding through confirmation	Alka et al. (2025a, b, c), Agarwal et al. (2021)

Methodological aspect	Procedure adopted	Purpose	References
Enabler identification	Literature review + expert confirmation	Content validity	Alka et al. (2025b), Agarwal et al. (2021)
Expert selection	Purposive and snowball sampling with inclusion/exclusion criteria	Judgment quality	Alka et al. (2025a, b)
Data collection	Structured interviews	Consistency and depth	Alka et al. (2025a), Sreenivasan and Suresh (2024)
Questionnaire design	Pairwise comparison using a 5-point Likert scale	Reliability of judgments	Alka et al. (2025a, b, c)
Disagreement handling	Majority consensus and interpretive clarification	Judgment consistency	Alka et al. (2025b)
Sample size	12 experts, based on saturation	Theoretical saturation	Alka et al. (2025c), Kaur et al. (2016), Dalvi-Esfahani et al. (2025), Kharb et al. (2024)
Model validation	Expert review + MICMAC classification	Structural understanding through confirmation	Alka et al. (2025a, b, c), Agarwal et al. (2021)

Source(s): Authors’ own work