Research design

To analyze the literature, we follow the structured approach, introduced by Webster and Watson and Vom Brocke et al. Therefore, we divide the research process into six phases shown in Fig. 3. First, we define the scope of the literature review in detail. Second, we identify a search string, which enables the selection of all relevant articles in scope. Third, we apply the search string in literature databases to get matching papers from all publications in scope. Fourth, we reduce the hits from the search string application by deleting duplicates and filter for relevant articles. Fifth, based on exemplary results from the literature search, we develop a taxonomy for research results of BI & A 3.0. Thereby, we follow the taxonomy development approach by Nickerson et al. Finally, in step six, we deeply read all relevant articles and systematically classify them by applying the developed taxonomy.

Fig. 3 Literature search and analysis strategy