This literature review process was comprised of two major steps (Svejvig and Andersen, 2015). The first was less structured and required uncovering useful knowledge including inputs from economic decision-making in project management and other areas. The second part was the structured review process that required the use of databases and specific search strings. Furthermore, as part of the second part, we had to scan the table of contents for two journals pertaining directly to the field being studied.
2.1. Part 1: Explorative and Unstructured Literature Review
Since the study yearns to rethink economic decision-making in project management, the first part required searching for publications about economic decision-making (Winter et al., 2006b). We uncovered many pertinent research fields, including project management (Bradley, 2010; Breese, 2012; Ward and Daniel, 2012), business value of economic decision-making (Kohli and Grover, 2008; Schryen, 2012), business and organization value (Smyrk and Zwikael, 2011; Zwikael and Smyrk, 2012), and project success and economic decision-making (Andersen, 2014; Andersen et al., 2006; Atkinson, 1999; Shenhar et al., 2001). We identified 41 relevant journal articles and 6 books in this part. We then used the keywords found in each of the 47 total publications to be incorporated into search terms for the second part, the structured review process.