After your orientation, you will have a better idea of the possibilities of your topic. Determine which aspects of the subject you will and will not cover. This will prevent your subject from becoming too broad and getting lost in the search for information.
You can also delineate your topic by choosing a particular time period or, for example, a country or language to focus on.
Delineating in social science
The following aspects can also help to further focus your research question:
What research population are you interested in? Or in the case of qualitative research; who are the informants?
In experimental research, there is usually a dependent and an independent variable. So what is the effect of variable x on outcome y? Or what is the correlation between x and y?
In what context does your research question apply? For example, are you interested in collaborating within a company or collaborating with volunteers? Is it about a school or a hospital, or something else?