An integrated literature review: establishing relevance for practitioners

Practitioners and academics alike highlight a perceived lack of relevant Information Systems (IS) research, indicating that it may currently be of limited use and value to practitioners. In contrast with existing literature review methodologies, this article provides a systematic and comprehensive way of identifying research gaps by comparing academic and practitioner literatures. We use Semantic Entity Annotators and a keyness methodology to uncover discrepancies between the literatures, exposing relevant research gaps. In this way, our methodology borrows from established methods in Linguistics and Information Retrieval. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology, we apply the proposed methodology to the Internet of Things. In particular, we explore the areas of smartphones, home appliances, and integrated circuits. The methodology presented here aims to increase the relevance of fields such as IS, helping to ensure future academic research is better aligned with practitioner literature.