ERP Systems and Accounting: A Systematic Literature Review

2. Methodology

Despite the growing importance that social sciences literature has been giving to SLR, meta-analysis, scientometric analysis, bibliometric analysis, and so on (Briner and Denyer, 2012; Crossan and Apaydin, 2010; Pittaway and Cope, 2007; Pittaway, Robertson, Munir, Denyer, and Neely, 2004; Rousseau, Manning, and Denyer, 2008; Walker, 2010), there has been few attempts to systematically map the field of research in conjunction with content analysis. In order to fill this gap and achieve the objectives of this research, i.e., clarify the state-of-the-art regarding the relationship between ERP and accounting information, it requires the process of collecting, analyzing and organizing a considerable amount of scientific papers. In that sense, our strategy is based on getting an overview of current scientific contributions and develop a literature framework in order to map key topics and themes for further research.