Innovation Drivers and Outputs for Software Firms: Literature Review and Concept Development

Table 1

Application of guidelines for systematic literature reviews [13] to the current study.

Guidelines for systematic literature reviews	Current study
A review protocol that specifies the research question being addressed and the methods that will be used to perform the review	Research questions given in Section 1 and three-stage method summarized in Figure 1
A defined and documented search strategy that aims to detect as much of the relevant literature as possible	See Figure 1 and the discussion offered in relation to this figure
Explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria	Articles should follow an accepted scientific research method, be published in reputable outlets, and be concerned with both innovation and building of software
Specification of the information to be obtained from each primary study	Innovation outputs, innovation drivers, and relationships between drivers and outputs