Case Study Methods in Business Research

Gabrielle Durepos, MA, lectures in Organizational Behaviour in the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary′s University.

• VOLUME ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CENTRAL THEMES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BISINESSCLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION′Case Study′ in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer PlattBibliographies - Stéphane Dufour and Dominic FortinDoes Prediction Conflict with Individualization? - Lewis LawesMemorandum Concerning a Proposed Research Technique - Robert AngellOn Generalization from Limited Social Data - Frank Alexander RossCulture Case Study and Ideal-Typical Method - Howard BeckerWith Special Reference to Max WeberThe Quantification of Case Studies - Paul Lazarsfeld and W.S. RobinsonA Clinical Case Study - Mervin DureaThe Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light - Martin GlaeserA Case Study of Public Ownership EARLY FORAYS IN BUSINESSRubber - William OrtonA Case Study The Influence of Interest Rates upon Entrepreneurial Decisions in Business - J. Franklin ErerbsoleA Case Study Financial Control - Richard van WagenenA Case Study Profit-Sharing under Collective Bargaining - Joseph ScanlonThree Case Studies The WP Club - Alvin ZanderAn Objective Case Study of a Group Studies in the Social Development of an Industrial Community (The Glacier Project) - Elliott Jaques I. Collaborative Group Methods in a Wage Negotiation Situation - Part One: Case StudyThe Case Study Method and the Establishment of Standards of Efficiency - Preston LebretonSome Problems in Conceptualizing Organizational Climate - Chris ArgyrisA Case Study of a Bank DEBATES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCHQualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance - Matthew MilesThe Problem of AnalysisSome Limitations of the Case Method - Chris ArgyrisExperiences in a Management Development Program The Case Study Crisis - Robert YinSome Answers The Harvard Business School Story - Ianna Contardo and Robin WensleyAvoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant The Possibility of the Testimony - Paolo QuattroneA Case for Case Study ResearchThe Case Study as Disciplinary Convention - Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welch and Eriikka PaavilainenEvidence from International Business Journals Digging Archeology - Albert Mills and Jean Helms MillsPost-Positivist Theory and Archival Research in Case Study Development VOLUME TWO: POSITIVIST CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BUSINESSA Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in a Major Diversified Firm - Robert BurgelmanGovernance, Entrepreneurship and Effectiveness - Monica DiochonExploring the Link Keeping an Eye on the Mirror - Jane Dutton and Janet DukerichThe Role of Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation Politics of Strategic Decision-Making in High-Velocity Environments - Kathleen Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois IIIToward a Mid-Range Theory Toward a Model of Venture Capital Investment Decision-Making - Vance Fried and Robert HisrichTime and Transition in Work Teams - Connie GersickToward a New Model of Group DevelopmentMeasuring Organizational Cultures - Geert Hofstede et alA Qualitative and Quantitative Study across 20 CasesHow Consumers Consume - Douglas HoltA Typology of Consumption Practices International Sourcing and Supply Chain Stability - David LevyExplaining the Formation of International New Ventures - Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane and Benjamin OviattThe Limits of Theories from International Business Research SMEs and CSR - David Murillo and Josep Lozano An Approach to CSR in Their Own Words Toward an Understanding of Consumer Ambivalence - Cele Otnes, Tina Lowrey and L.J. ShrumUntangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales - Robert Sutton and Anat RaphaeliThe Case of Convenience StoresCorporate Codes of Ethics and Sales Force Behavior - William Weeks and Jacques NantelA Case StudyFrom Evangelism to General Service - Mayer Zald and Patricia DentonThe Transformation of the YMCAThe Value of the Voting Right - Luigi ZingalesA Study of the Milan Stock-Exchange Experience VOLUME THREE: INTERPRETIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESSOn Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew PettigrewThe Collapse of Sense-Making in Organizations - Karl WeickThe Mann Gulch Disaster The Good, the Bad and the Ambivalent - Michael PrattManaging Identification among Amway Distributors The Dark Side of Organizations - Diane VaughanMistake, Misconduct and DisasterSupermarkets and Culture Clash - Dvora YanowThe Epistemological Role of Metaphors in Administrative PracticeThe Bitter and the Sweet Evolving Constellations of Product Mix Management in a Confectionery Company - Päivi Eriksson and Keijo RäsänenThe Accomplishment of School Administration - Peter GronnNarrative, Life Story and Manager Identity - Tony WatsonA Case Study in Autobiographical Identity Work The Role of Annual Reports in Gender and Class Contradictions at General Motors, 1917-1976 - Tony Tinker and Marilynn NeimarkManaging Cultural Diversity - Lucy Taska and Dimitria GroutsisA Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship - Bernard Leca and Philippe NaccacheEngineering Humor - David Collinson Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations Change, Talk and Sense-Making - Amy Thurlow and Jean Helms MillsTowards a Critical Spirituality of Organization - Emma BellNick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank - Ian GreenerSociotechnical Networks and the ′Rogue Trader′Labor and Social Legislation in the United States - David JacobsBusiness Obstructionism and Accommodation Critical Realism in Case Study Research - Geoff EastonVOLUME FOUR: CASE STUDY RESEARCH FROM THE TRADITIONS OF THE POST AND BEYONDGender Relations and Identity at Work - Mats AlvessonA Case Study of Masculinities and Femininities in the Advertising IndustryStories of the Storytelling Organization - David BojeA Postmodern Analysis of Disney as ′Tamara-Land′ Accounting for the Dark Side of Corporate History - Charles Booth et alOrganizational Culture Perspectives and the Bertelsmann CaseRefusing to Be ′Me′ - Joanna BrewisEntrepreneurial Identities - Laurie Cohen and Gill MussonReflections from Two Case StudiesThe Managing of the (Third) World - Bill CookeOn Being a Professional in a ′Big Six′ Firm - Christopher GreyReflexivity in Organization and Management Theory - Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips and Stewart CleggA Study of the Production of the Research ′Subject′Networking as Knowledge Work - David Knights, Fergus Murray and Hugh WillmottA Study of Strategic Inter-Organizational Development in the Financial Services IndustryGlobalization, Post-Colonial Theory and Organizational Analysis - Brad Long and Albert MillsLessons from the Rwanda Genocide The Emergence of New Global Institutions - Steve Maguire and Cynthia HardyA Discursive PerspectiveGendering Teamwork - Beverly Metcalfe and Alison LinsteadRe-Writing the Feminine Representing Markets - Diego Rinallo and Francesca GolfettoThe Shaping of Fashion Trends by French and Italian Fabric CompaniesManaging Managerial Identities - Stefan Sveningsson and Mats AlvessonOrganizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity StruggleThe Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization - Anne Witz, Chris Warhurst and Dennis NicksonDiversity in the Lean Automobile Factory - Patrizia ZanoniDoing Class through Gender, Disability and Age