Example Literature Reviews

Literature Review on Risk Management and Hedging

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Introduction M & M – Risk management is irrelevant to the firm, shareholders can themselves eliminate any risk they do not wish to be exposed too (through diversification for example). However,...

Literature Review on Rural Poverty in Bangladesh

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries, position third after India and China in the extent of poverty. The population is predominantly......

Literature Review on Salmonella Studies

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

In 1884, the first Salmonella species was isolated by veterinary surgeon Daniel E. Salmon from porcine intestines. The isolated species was first referred to as Bacillus choleraesuis, however was ren...

Literature Review on Sexual Objectification Instruments

Last modified: 1st Mar 2022

Evaluating sexual objectification instruments and the cumulative evidence of their psychometric properties: A Systematic Review....

Literature Review on Single Pilot Operations

Last modified: 5th Oct 2021

We examine the fundamental Single Pilot Operations (SPO) concepts found in literature and then analyse with frameworks designed to provide a measurement tool to assess the feasibility of SPO....

Literature Review on Stock Market Behaviour

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

2.0 Introduction The dynamic relationship between macroeconomic variables and share returns have been widely discussed and debated. It is an uneasy task to select a proper macroeconomic variable that ...

Literature Review on Succession Planning in HRM

Last modified: 28th Oct 2021

This paper describes the human resource management need to understand and implement succession planning in an organization, and uses the question “What is the purpose of succession human resource planning of an organization?”...

Literature Review on Sudden Cardiac Death

Last modified: 16th Apr 2021

A detailed literature review of previous research studies focused on the incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the associated identifiable risk factors was conducted....

Literature Review on Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Last modified: 13th Apr 2021

This research looks into the technological and social problems and assesses the merits and demerits of each for sustainable energy....

Literature Review on Teaching Visual Arts in the Digital Media Age

Last modified: 28th May 2021

The purpose of this research study is to learn about the experiences of visual arts teachers in teaching creativity at the high school level....

Literature Review on Team Structures and Development

Last modified: 26th Jan 2022

The aim of this paper was to begin the process of synthesizing the existing literature on teams, subjective perception patterns and team structures....

Literature Review on the Education System for Civil Engineers

Last modified: 23rd Jun 2021

Is the current route to civil engineering stifling creativity in engineering students? There is potential for D&T to become a useful subject for students wishing to pursue engineering....

Literature Review on the Effect of Exercise on Oxygen Rates in the Human Body

Last modified: 19th Mar 2021

Demonstration of Knowledge and Evidence. DKE #1 (Group 1): Knowledge of the heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, blood pressure, and oxygen consumption responses during sub-maximal and maximal exercise....

Literature Review on The Effectiveness of Electronic Medical Records

Last modified: 18th Oct 2021

An electronic medical record can be defined as a software program part or complete medical record of a patient kept in a computer....

Literature Review on the Glass Ceiling and Gender Gap in Leadership

Last modified: 6th Jan 2022

In this chapter the researcher will look at what the glass ceiling is, the definition of gender and the reasons behind the leadership gap between men and women....

Literature Review on the Phenomenon of Politeness

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The phenomenon of interest in politeness, both socially and linguistically, has seen a significant increase over the last three decades as evidenced by the numbers of paper that have appeared on the s...

Literature Review on the Prohibition of Riba

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

CHAPTER 2: 2.1 INTRODUCTION – PROHIBITION OF RIBA 2.1.1 Riba In Holy Qur’an Since the ages of legacy by Prophet Muhammad S.A.W., he has encourage and forbid public to never take riba (inte...

Literature Review on Total Knee Arthroplasty Complications

Last modified: 15th Apr 2021

The purpose of this literature review was to discuss some of the most common reported complications following TKA that lead to revisions....

Literature Review on Transformational Leadership

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

According to Nicholas and Ghobadian leadership is “ the process of transforming organisations from what they are to what the leader would have them come” (Nicholas and Ghobadian, 2004). In todays ...

Literature Review On Value Added Tax (VAT)

Last modified: 26th Oct 2021

The literature on VAT is relatively small compared to its rapid spread and seemingly attractive worldwide. This section reviews the literature, with particular emphasis on the impact of VAT as a consumption tax on consumption behaviour and economic growth. ...

Literature Review on Video Use in Teacher Training

Last modified: 22nd Dec 2021

This literature review will lay the groundwork of what has been discussed in the field of video use in teacher education, including in-service and preservice teachers....

Literature Review on Voluntary and Forced Migration

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

1. Literature review 1.1. Modern migrations: between voluntary and forced migration Migration is certainly not a new phenomenon, despite being a key social issue in current European politics on a loc...

Literature Review on Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)

Last modified: 9th Apr 2021

This paper examines existing literature on Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), specifically on the topic of the many interrelated social and institutional barriers which impede the widespread implementation of alternative approaches within the urban water sector....

Literature Review on Wireless Technology in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Last modified: 8th Jul 2021

The literature available on heterogeneous MANETs has suggested different combination of access technologies. Some of the suggested techniques are discussed in this literature review....

Literature Review: Capital Structure and Corporate Finance

Last modified: 20th Dec 2021

Williamson in his article, “Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance”, analyzed the effects of tangible assets and probability of bankruptcy on the relationship between capital structure, leverage, and asset liquidity....

Literature Review: Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

We start the chapter with reviewing the empirical literature related to the monetary policy transmission mechanisms, as previous studies provide us with necessary tools and ideas for performing the em...

Macro and Micro Environment Analysis of McDonalds

Last modified: 8th Sep 2021

This section provides a broad picture of the dissertation that includes setting up the parameters and limits to the field of inquiry going into the research....

Maritime Safety Using e-Navigation Technologies

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It has widely been accepted that more than 80% of all high consequence marine disasters have been the result of human error. Accidents related to navigation continue to occur despite...

Maternal Serum Zinc Deficiency and Low Birth Weight Outcomes

Last modified: 1st Nov 2021

A literature review on the link between maternal zinc deficiency and increased rates of neonate low birth weight....

Merger and Acquisition Between Orange and T-Mobile

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

To evaluate and discuss the concepts of the M&A among corporations, their types and the reasons underlying behind these mergers. To find out whether M&A help in obtaining appropriate results...

Microglial Activation and Cancer Induced Bone Pain: Literature Review

Last modified: 26th Jan 2022

The limited effectiveness of current pain control therapies proves to be an important area of research for the treatment of CIBP....

Microorganisms that Thrive in Dairy Processing Environments

Last modified: 3rd Nov 2021

The intent of this research is to review literature published on the prevalence of bacterial foodborne pathogens found in milk and dairy environments....

Models of Change in Organizational Management

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Changing Nature of Market Influence The changing nature of the market had influenced the ways that many managers used to think. Many organizations now seek to cope with the change that occurs in the m...

Models to Describe Interest Rate Uncertainty

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Introduction An interest rate is the rate at which interest is paid by a borrower for the use of money that they borrow from a lender. Interest’s rates are fundamental to a capitalist society. I...

Monitoring Microorganisms in the Food Industry

Last modified: 7th Sep 2021

This literature review provides a comprehensive overview of current technologies that are used to monitor microorganisms in the food industry....

Motivation in the Workplace

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Abstract This dissertation is concerned with the effect of money when motivating employees at call centres. The evidence in my writing indicates that the money influences the way employees are motivat...

Motivation of Employees in a Nursing Home

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Chapter 1 Introduction This sudden shift in the economic stability and job market has resulted in diminished passion and loss of productivity for many employees. As unemployment rate has drastically i...

Netflix Disruptive Innovation

Last modified: 20th Aug 2021

The purpose of this report is to explain a disruptive innovation using an ICT-enabled technology, which in this case is Netflix....

NHS Staff Experiences of Violence: Literature Review

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

NHS Inpatient Staff Experiences of Violence: A Systematic Review of the Literature Abstract Background For decades there has been an interest in the link between mental health and violence. ...

Non-performing Loans and Bank Performance During Economic Crisis

Last modified: 7th Jan 2022

This study is focused on the effect of nonperforming loans of Public Bank toward macroeconomic variable. Viewing quarterly in 2005 to 2009 as a reference of investigation, it can be used for bankers as a benchmark for their future planning....

Objective of Training and Developing a Role

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The training is an essential program that every organization needs to manage their employees because it is beneficial among the employees in developing their updates skills through the latest methodol...

Occupational Stress of Nurses

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

In the years to come stress would find more place in our lives. One has to adopt specific skills to combat stress. Stress management is of paramount importance in organizational and individual practic...

Organisational Culture-Performance link in Hairdressing

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Organisations operate in a very unpredictable environment; hence survival depends on the organisations’ ability to exploit resources; collaborate and adjust. There are extensive demonstrations ...

Pandemic and Recession Impact on Airlines

Last modified: 13th Oct 2021

This research project will analyse how airlines are affected during a global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic or a recession....

Performance Changes of DBS after Merger with POSB

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Introduction Since early 1980s, financial institutions around the world have undergone transformations led by globalisation, deregulation, and privatization, supported by the information technology a...

Performance of Working Capital Management

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The study was conducted at Parisons Roller Flour Mills Private Limited with an attempt to analyses working capital management of the company for a period of 5 years (2005 – 2009) and How to impr...

Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Last modified: 1st Oct 2021

Ample work has been done on pricing asset due to its vital importance in finance literature. This review looks at theories related to asset pricing....

Portrayals of Feminine Sexuality on Social Media: Emily Ratajkowski

Last modified: 18th Nov 2021

The aim of this dissertation is to explore the portrayal of feminine sexuality on social media, in particular that of the actress and supermodel Emily Ratajkowski....

Preferences for Female Political Leaders in Times of Threat

Last modified: 17th Jan 2022

I propose to investigate preferences for female political leaders as a function of the membership of the group posing the threat and whether the leader is described as upholding cultural traditions....

Pressure on Development Land in the South East of England

Last modified: 15th Jul 2021

The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss and evaluate the pressure on development land in the South- East of England, and how that pressure relates to the need for sustainable architecture....

Pressure Ulcer Prevention - Literature Review

Last modified: 27th Oct 2021

In this literature review we are looking at international and national studies carried out on pressure ulcers and their prevention....

Profit Versus Free Cash Flow

Last modified: 20th Dec 2021

In this study we have taken seven years data of seven different listed companies of oil and gas marketing and exploration sector. We have taken data from state bank web site from the year 2002 to 2008....

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Theory and Exchange Rates

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Purchasing power parity (PPP) states that in the absence of transaction costs and barriers to trade, the nominal exchange rate between two countries should equate the aggregate price levels of the res...

Quantitative Project Risk Analysis for Construction Project: Literature Review

Last modified: 8th Sep 2021

The first aim of this project falls into the domain of quantitative project risk analysis with respect to the time factor. The criticality of defining accurate activity time estimates will be pointed out through the literature review....

Real Estate and Portfolio Investment

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Real Estate Investment business deals with immovable property, such as land, and everything else that is permanently attached to it, such as buildings. C.F. Sirmans et.al. 2003, in his paper observed ...

Reducing Anxiety Among Radiation Therapy Patients

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The review of literature in a research report is a summary of current knowledge about a particular practice- problem. (Nancy & Burns 2002). A literature review is an organized writer’s pres...

Relationship between Climate Change and Tropical Hurricanes

Last modified: 12th Dec 2019

What is the impact of climate change and subsequent increase in sea surface temperature having on tropical hurricanes? A critical evaluation With the continuing population increase in coastal area...

Relationship Between Trade Deficit and Growth

Last modified: 25th Jan 2022

To study and investigate the relationship between Trade Deficit and Growth, considering the case of Pakistan, showing that increasing trade deficits are the cause of dampening growth....

Resistance to Change in Organisations

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Senior and Fleming (2006) consider change as essential for an organisation. Change can be defined as the event that occurs when passing from one state or phase to another, in essence becoming differen...

Retaining Generation Y in the Work Force

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Generation Y that closely referred to as millennial is latest member in the multigenerational workforce. In fact they are the newest and the last members of the workforce, born between 1982 and 2003. ...

Retaining Talent in Organisations

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Finding qualified workers is a difficult and tedious process. Every industry has been finding ways to attract and keep its workforce. One of the factors leading to turnover is by adopting bad retentio...

Review of Internet Banking in Thailand

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The rapid growth of the internet has had a significant impact on the business world including the banking industry. The internet offers an alternative channel to distribute products and services to c...

Rise of Obesity in the US

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Obesity is on the rise both in the US and internationally. In the US, many factors have contributed to the rise in obesity including dining outside of the home and the food choices consumers make. The...

Risk Management in Financial Institutions

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

“Risk management is important in financial institution than in other parts of the nation. Although its complex. The banking sectors and other similar financial institutions is facing risk in situati...

Risk Management in the Construction Industry

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Risk Management In Malaysian Construction Industry Risk management is one of the subfields on nine knowledge area in project management. Risk management is about managing uncertainty that inherent in ...

Role of Imaging in Early Diagnosis of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Last modified: 23rd Dec 2021

This literature review aims to provide a clinical review of the advantages and disadvantages of different available neuroimaging methods in approaching acute stroke to help clinicians choose the best method according to the settings....

Safer Pregnancies in the Philippines

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Chapter 2 Related Literature This chapter include Foreign and Local Studies, and Foreign and Local Literature in which will relate our study. Local Literature According to the philstar, CEBU, Philippi...

Sales Representatives Acceptance of CPQ Systems

Last modified: 24th Jun 2021

The literature review presents technology acceptance using the context of behavioural intention to use CPQ systems by sales representatives. ...

Service Quality Concepts

Last modified: 22nd Nov 2023

A literature review that explores service quality and its related concepts including SERVQUAL, Gap analysis, the three dimensions of Lehtinen and Lehtinen and the Perceived service quality model....

Skilled Workers Shortage in China: Causes and Effects

Last modified: 5th Nov 2021

Literature review on the shortage of skilled workers in China and how shortages of skills affect MNCs....

Social and Cultural Aspects of Child Abuse

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

LITERATURE REVIEW: In the article he discussed that children are a very vulnerable sector of our society. Child abuse can occur in every sector of our society, but some children are at a higher risk f...

Social Connectedness as a Predictor of Sexual Behaviour

Last modified: 25th Feb 2022

This chapter describes the systematic literature review that was conducted to examine the existing quantitative evidence of social connectedness as a predictor of sexual behaviour among Asian adolescents globally....

Social Media and Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice Organizations

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Every human being struggles with what’s right and what’s wrong; What’s considered bad versus evil and what’s positive versus negative behavior.  Making unethical decisions whether it’s in ...

Social Media Marketing Strategies in the Food Industry

Last modified: 5th Oct 2021

A literature review for a study that aims to analyse the possibility of creating brand awareness in the Indian market using social media marketing....

Socio-Economic Impact of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

2.1 The purpose of the literature review The purpose of the literature review was to: Review the available literature on the trend of alcohol consumption in Scotland; Review literature on accessibilit...

Sponsorship and the Organisation of Mega Events

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Abstract The growth in the holding of mega events is an important contemporary phenomenon. Such events involve the participation of thousands of people, the viewership of many more through local and g...

Stakeholders and Project Risk Management

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

CHAPTER TWO 2.0 Literature Review The need for project to be completed on time, cost and quality cannot be over emphasised as it brings satisfaction to all the stakeholders particular to the project. ...

Stealth Assessment in Educational Games: An In-depth Literature Review

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Stealth assessment in educational games: An in-depth literature review Abstract Teaching and learning through games has been a subject of interest to educators for a long time. With the relatively re...

Stock Market Efficiency in Kazakhstan and Russia

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) continues to be controversial and debatable even in the 21st century. In the financial world many researchers have garnered ever greater empirical evidence of ineffic...

Students’ Misconceptions in Science Education

Last modified: 4th Oct 2021

Students form their own concepts regarding their surroundings and the world.  These are based on their own sensorial experiences....

Supply Chain Risk in the Hyundai Motor Company

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Introduction Over the years, many companies have reduced their business cost and expanded their product lines through an aggressive supply chain strategy. Low cost-cost country sourcing, multi-tiered ...

Tata Group Company Acquisitions Performance

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

In the current globalised economy, mergers and acquisitions are being progressively more used the world over, for increasing competitiveness of companies through gaining better market share, expansion...

Tendon Development, Healing, and Adhesion Formation

Last modified: 18th Feb 2022

The goal of this article is to discuss the recent literature relating to tendon development, tendon healing, and adhesion formation to identify areas in need of further research....

The Changing Dynamics in the Fashion Apparel Industry

Last modified: 13th Oct 2021

The purpose of this document is to investigate the shift in the fashion apparel industry and the emergence of the phenomenon, fast fashion....

The Effect of a Mindset Intervention on Middle School Student Academic Achievement

Last modified: 25th Feb 2022

The literature review has presented a number of topic areas, namely incremental theory of intelligence, or mindset theory, and its historical background through current research and interventions....

The Hydrology of the Nile River Basin: Literature Review and Comparison Between Two Model Structures

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

THE HYDROLOGY OF THE NILE RIVER BASIN: LITERATURE REVIEW AND COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO MODEL STRUCTURES Abstract. This report presents a review for some of the hydrological studies that were carried out...

The Impact of Bankruptcy Regimes on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Is there any relationship?

Last modified: 23rd Feb 2022

The literature review indicates that bankruptcy law may play an important role in and be one of the factors influencing the development of entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus economic growth, among other things....

The Impact of Student Employment During the First Two Years of College

Last modified: 1st Dec 2021

This literature review will give a broad summary of the dominant studies on the topic of student work and its impact on student academic success....

The Problem of Money Laundering

Last modified: 5th Oct 2021

A literature review for a study aiming to analyse harmful effects of money laundering on the economic growth of a developing country....

The Urban Street: A Conduit for Vitality and Multimodal Movement in the City

Last modified: 6th Dec 2021

A study of Strøget, Copenhagen, analysing how the pioneering street design impacted the entire city's way of life. Through the exploration of factors which define the success of streets, their impact on the vitality and multimodal movement of the city can be assessed. ...

Tobacco Industry and Tobacco Control in Nigeria

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, tobacco smoking has been shown to be the most significant cause of preventable, premature deaths in economically developed countries, and is rapidly achieving this status outsi...

Trade Liberalization Impact in China

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

Introduction Since China began its economic transformation in 1979, China’s economy has grown sharply. However, this transformation is facing one of its biggest setbacks after 2008 because of th...

Traditional and Practical Capital Budgeting Techniques

Last modified: 20th Dec 2021

In this literature review both traditional capital budgeting techniques and practical capital budgeting techniques are reviewed and the limitations of traditional capital budgeting techniques are discussed....

Traditional Finance And Behavioral Finance

Last modified: 13th Oct 2021

This research studies the relation between traditional finance and behavioural Finance. This study is an attempt to understand whether investors always follow traditional finance perspective or catch by their own beliefs or trial and error behaviour....

Transformation Leadership Skills In The Retail Sector

Last modified: 22nd Dec 2021

The main aims of this dissertation are to find out the transformational model being used in retail sectors to increase employee productivity and enhance customer support. ...

Unaccompanied Minors Entering the UK

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Literature Review The phenomenon of the migration of minors (children, young people and adolescents) who migrate alone, without their families and regardless of the established laws and administra...

Understanding The Virtue Of Patience

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

In today’s fast paced world, where things happen with click of a button, we are growing inpatient. Gone are the days when people were patient enough to wait for days for the computer to produce ...

University Contributions to Research and Development

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

2.0 Introduction In this chapter we will discuss the general contribution of the university to R&D, especially in a developing country such as Malaysia. A brief historical background of universit...

Use of Metaphors in Advertising

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

A lot of people believe that there is too much advertising, that it makes us a herd of capitalistic robots, that it consolidates on stereotypes, that it plays on our fears of not being socially toler...

User Involvement in Mental Health Care

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

Value of Service User Involvement in Mental Health Care There is increasing emphasis on the need for the NHS to withdraw from a paternalistic approach to healthcare and adopt a patient centred approa...

Variables Affecting the Wages of Individuals

Last modified: 6th Dec 2019

The aim of this empirical project is to find out which variables affect the wages of an individual. This will initially be done by describing the variables such as qualitative data, which are data tha...

Walmart and the Retailing Process

Last modified: 9th Dec 2019

1.0 Literature Review The Retailing process includes the business actions involved in selling goods and services to consumers for their personal or household use. Retailing also consists of the final ...

Zero Carbon Buildings: Is Electrification of Heat the Answer?

Last modified: 16th Nov 2021

The possibilities of how zero-carbon buildings might be achieved have been widely discussed, with four main strategies currently representing potential options for future decarbonised supply....