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This review follows Noble’s approach (1999) and Tawse and Tabesh’s (2021) broad approach, which includes both implementation and implementation-related research to overcome the low number of papers explicitly examining SD implementation topics. Because the strategy implementation research has been fragmented across several management disciplines (e.g., marketing literature, organizational behavior, and project management) (Amoo et al., 2019), it was necessary to adopt this wide scope in the investigation.
To recognize the effective practices of SD implementation, the researcher conducted a literature search in two stages. First, we used several databases like ScienceDirect, ProQuest ABI, and EBSCOhost to search for papers. The search words were ‘strategic decision’ and their equivalents (e.g., project, initiative, choice of suppliers, information system selection, and new product development), and ‘implementation’ and its synonyms (e.g., execution, application, accomplishment, achievement, and realization). Second, cross-referencing was carried out to identify further articles. This way, the analysis included articles that considered strategic decision implementation despite not including it in their abstracts or keywords.
The shortlisted papers must be from peer-reviewed journals with an AJG rating of “2” or above or were at least B in the 2019 ABDC list (Fatima & Elbanna, 2022). The researcher had to use the two lists with this low rating to compensate for the scarcity of papers on this topic. This yielded 33 peer-reviewed papers, of which nearly 64.7% had an AJG rating of 3 or higher and 70.5% were rated A or higher on the ADC list. A summary of the empirical strategic decision implementation-related documents can be found in Table 2 in the appendix section.