Case Study Methods in Business Research
Four Volume Set
Edited by:
Series:
Fundamentals of Applied Research
Fundamentals of Applied Research
October 2012 | 1 672 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Case studies are one of the most popular approaches to business and management research. By bringing together research accounts from various research traditions, this collection is unique within the field. Over four volumes, the editors focus on central themes in the subject over time, before moving on to selected cases from positivist, interpretivist and critical approaches, and finishing with a look at traditions of the 'post'.
The set provides a highly accessible collection for anyone in business studies wishing to explore in depth and have readily available a sizeable number of case study accounts.
Volume One: Introduction to Central Themes in Case Study Research in Business
Volume Two: Positivist Case Study Research in Business
Volume Three: Interpretive and Critical Approaches to Case Studies in Business
Volume Four: Case Study Research from the Traditions of the Post and Beyond
VOLUME ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CENTRAL THEMES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BISINESS
CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION
Jennifer Platt
'Case Study' in American Methodological Thought
Stéphane Dufour and Dominic Fortin
Bibliographies
Lewis Lawes
Does Prediction Conflict with Individualization?
Robert Angell
Memorandum Concerning a Proposed Research Technique
Frank Alexander Ross
On Generalization from Limited Social Data
Howard Becker
Culture Case Study and Ideal-Typical Method
Paul Lazarsfeld and W.S. Robinson
The Quantification of Case Studies
Mervin Durea
A Clinical Case Study
Martin Glaeser
The Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light
EARLY FORAYS IN BUSINESS
William Orton
Rubber
J. Franklin Ererbsole
The Influence of Interest Rates upon Entrepreneurial Decisions in Business
Richard van Wagenen
Financial Control
Joseph Scanlon
Profit-Sharing under Collective Bargaining
Alvin Zander
The WP Club
Elliott Jaques
Studies in the Social Development of an Industrial Community (The Glacier Project)
Preston Lebreton
The Case Study Method and the Establishment of Standards of Efficiency
Chris Argyris
Some Problems in Conceptualizing Organizational Climate
DEBATES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH
Matthew Miles
Qualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance
Chris Argyris
Some Limitations of the Case Method
Robert Yin
The Case Study Crisis
Ianna Contardo and Robin Wensley
The Harvard Business School Story
Paolo Quattrone
The Possibility of the Testimony
Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welch and Eriikka Paavilainen
The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention
Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills
Digging Archeology
VOLUME TWO: POSITIVIST CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
Robert Burgelman
A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in a Major Diversified Firm
Monica Diochon
Governance, Entrepreneurship and Effectiveness
Jane Dutton and Janet Dukerich
Keeping an Eye on the Mirror
Kathleen Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois III
Politics of Strategic Decision-Making in High-Velocity Environments
Vance Fried and Robert Hisrich
Toward a Model of Venture Capital Investment Decision-Making
Connie Gersick
Time and Transition in Work Teams
Geert Hofstede et al
Measuring Organizational Cultures
Douglas Holt
How Consumers Consume
David Levy
International Sourcing and Supply Chain Stability
Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane and Benjamin Oviatt
Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures
David Murillo and Josep Lozano
SMEs and CSR
Cele Otnes, Tina Lowrey and L.J. Shrum
Toward an Understanding of Consumer Ambivalence
Robert Sutton and Anat Raphaeli
Untangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales
William Weeks and Jacques Nantel
Corporate Codes of Ethics and Sales Force Behavior
Mayer Zald and Patricia Denton
From Evangelism to General Service
Luigi Zingales
The Value of the Voting Right
VOLUME THREE: INTERPRETIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS
Andrew Pettigrew
On Studying Organizational Cultures
Karl Weick
The Collapse of Sense-Making in Organizations
Michael Pratt
The Good, the Bad and the Ambivalent
Diane Vaughan
The Dark Side of Organizations
Dvora Yanow
Supermarkets and Culture Clash
Päivi Eriksson and Keijo Räsänen
The Bitter and the Sweet Evolving Constellations of Product Mix Management in a Confectionery Company
Peter Gronn
The Accomplishment of School Administration
Tony Watson
Narrative, Life Story and Manager Identity
Tony Tinker and Marilynn Neimark
The Role of Annual Reports in Gender and Class Contradictions at General Motors, 1917-1976
Lucy Taska and Dimitria Groutsis
Managing Cultural Diversity
Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache
A Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship
David Collinson
Engineering Humor
Amy Thurlow and Jean Helms Mills
Change, Talk and Sense-Making
Emma Bell
Towards a Critical Spirituality of Organization
Ian Greener
Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank
David Jacobs
Labor and Social Legislation in the United States
Geoff Easton
Critical Realism in Case Study Research
VOLUME FOUR: CASE STUDY RESEARCH FROM THE TRADITIONS OF THE POST AND BEYOND
Mats Alvesson
Gender Relations and Identity at Work
David Boje
Stories of the Storytelling Organization
Charles Booth et al
Accounting for the Dark Side of Corporate History
Joanna Brewis
Refusing to Be 'Me'
Laurie Cohen and Gill Musson
Entrepreneurial Identities
Bill Cooke
The Managing of the (Third) World
Christopher Grey
On Being a Professional in a 'Big Six' Firm
Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips and Stewart Clegg
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory
David Knights, Fergus Murray and Hugh Willmott
Networking as Knowledge Work
Brad Long and Albert Mills
Globalization, Post-Colonial Theory and Organizational Analysis
Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy
The Emergence of New Global Institutions
Beverly Metcalfe and Alison Linstead
Gendering Teamwork
Diego Rinallo and Francesca Golfetto
Representing Markets
Stefan Sveningsson and Mats Alvesson
Managing Managerial Identities
Anne Witz, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
Patrizia Zanoni
Diversity in the Lean Automobile Factory