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Table 2.

Guiding structure for the literature review

Literature review
Section and order of appearance	Description
1. Introduction of the literature review	Definition of the scope of the review and description of the journals or fields that were consulted
2. What is already known?	Presentation of the state of the art in the literature about the topic, based on landmark papers, and synthesized in a coherent storyline
3. What do we not know?	Highlights the lack in our understanding, such as current insights being inconclusive, results being contradicting, too little research and only qualitative research
4. Key statement of the relevance of the paper for the field: What gap in our understanding does the case address? The statement should establish the relevance and originality of the lessons that the case presents

Literature review
Section and order of appearance	Description
1. Introduction of the literature review	Definition of the scope of the review and description of the journals or fields that were consulted
2. What is already known?	Presentation of the state of the art in the literature about the topic, based on landmark papers, and synthesized in a coherent storyline
3. What do we not know?	Highlights the lack in our understanding, such as current insights being inconclusive, results being contradicting, too little research and only qualitative research
4. Key statement of the relevance of the paper for the field: What gap in our understanding does the case address? The statement should establish the relevance and originality of the lessons that the case presents

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