While every effort has been made within this review to provide
a comprehensive and balanced synthesis of available MFCA literature,
the observations made herein should be viewed in light of
several limitations. As noted in Section 4, MFCA was originally
developed in Germany and Japan. As a result much of the early
work to emanate from these countries was designed for use by
domestic organisations. Thus it is acknowledged there are publications,
especially from the late 1990s and early 2000s, that are
only available in German or Japanese. These papers were not
considered within this composition which, as noted in Section 6,
was limited to publications available in English. While it is not believed the decision to exclude these papers would be sufficient to
undermine the value of this review, it is possible some of the areas
discussed, and some of the research questions that are proposed,
may have been covered elsewhere.