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Table A1

Quality assessment criteria

Elements of the study	Level
Elements of the study	0. Absent	1. Low	2. Medium	3. High
1. Theoretical contribution	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Poor development of theoretical insights and limited awareness of prevailing literature	Basic understanding of theory and use of concepts from existing literature	Deep and broad knowledge of theory, including the novel and provocative development of concepts
2. Implication for practice	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Very difficult to implement the concepts and ideas in pragmatic problem solving	Findings have the potential for being implemented by practitioners with minor reviews or adjustments	The utility for practitioners is clear
3. Methodology	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Data incomplete and not related to theory and weak research design	Data is related to the arguments, although the research design could be improved	Data strongly support arguments. Robust research design and good use of methods
4. The relevance of findings and generalization	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Only tangentially relevant, and mainly to the population studied	Broadly relevant, perhaps in one of the areas or applied in organizations of similar characteristics	High level of integration of findings, methods and theoretical constructs
5. Contribution	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Does not make an important contribution; it does not make it clear the advances it makes	Although using other’s ideas, builds upon the existing theory	Further develops existing knowledge, expanding the way the issues were explained so far

Elements of the study	Level
Elements of the study	0. Absent	1. Low	2. Medium	3. High
1. Theoretical contribution	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Poor development of theoretical insights and limited awareness of prevailing literature	Basic understanding of theory and use of concepts from existing literature	Deep and broad knowledge of theory, including the novel and provocative development of concepts
2. Implication for practice	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Very difficult to implement the concepts and ideas in pragmatic problem solving	Findings have the potential for being implemented by practitioners with minor reviews or adjustments	The utility for practitioners is clear
3. Methodology	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Data incomplete and not related to theory and weak research design	Data is related to the arguments, although the research design could be improved	Data strongly support arguments. Robust research design and good use of methods
4. The relevance of findings and generalization	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Only tangentially relevant, and mainly to the population studied	Broadly relevant, perhaps in one of the areas or applied in organizations of similar characteristics	High level of integration of findings, methods and theoretical constructs
5. Contribution	The article does not provide enough information to assess this criterion	Does not make an important contribution; it does not make it clear the advances it makes	Although using other’s ideas, builds upon the existing theory	Further develops existing knowledge, expanding the way the issues were explained so far

Source: Adapted from MacPherson and Holt (2007)