RESEARCH QUESTION – How to leverage cloud computing for government-wide adoption in the delivery of public goods to achieve e-government.
You must produce a 14–16-page literature review, based on your dependent variable/research question. The lit review must be grounded in prominent peer-reviewed work on your particular dependent variable/research question. The paper must illustrate why your research question is meaningful and theoretically significant. To do this, you must provide the reader with a strong sense of the state of the established literature in their chosen sub-field and must identify areas where they can make a substantial contribution to existing theory and scholarly discourse.
Start by briefly introducing your topic, providing your research question, and specifying your dependent variable. This should all be accomplished on page one of your lit review. Then, identify the peer-reviewed sources which represent the most prominent work done to date on your particular question. Describe key information from your reviewed sources in a manner that clearly connects to your specific research problem and helps you conceptualize how you will eventually study/tackle your problem. Steer away from describing this relevancy in general terms. Instead, describe the specific contribution the author(s) makes to ongoing scholarly conversations. Speaking of conversations, a good literature review will put scholars into discussions with one another. Use these conversations to illuminate how the key findings, research designs/methods and strengths/weaknesses of arguments and research approaches.
Finally, a good literature review will move seamlessly from this in-depth discussion of specific contributions/gaps up to the macro level, where the reader is provided with a sense of key advancements/setbacks and themes running throughout an entire body of literature. It takes practice and skill to effortlessly move your reader from specific contributions to a broad assessment of the state of an entire body of literature. But that is your goal.
