Using literature reviews to identify new research avenues and provide novel theoretical insights is increasing, with the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) recently gaining greater attention from human resource development scholarship. Analyzing and making sense of literature can be insightful, but also daunting as it involves organizing and analyzing vast amounts of articles and data. Computer-Aided/Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) software can be used to support this process by organizing the literature to enable more fine-grained analysis, support analytical coding, explore patterns in the literature, and check for coding consistency. In this instructor’s corner we explain and illustrate some of the CAQDAS analysis actions that can support researchers with their SLRs.
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