Case Study Methods in Business Research
Four Volumes
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2012
Book
Hardback
1672 pages
978-1-4462-4706-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
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Series
Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
3310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4462-4706-8 (9781446247068)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gabrielle Durepos, MA, lectures in Organizational Behaviour in the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University.
Content
VOLUME ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CENTRAL THEMES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BISINESS
CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION
'Case Study' in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt
Bibliographies - Stephane Dufour and Dominic Fortin
Does Prediction Conflict with Individualization? - Lewis Lawes
Memorandum Concerning a Proposed Research Technique - Robert Angell
On Generalization from Limited Social Data - Frank Alexander Ross
Culture Case Study and Ideal-Typical Method - Howard Becker
With Special Reference to Max Weber
The Quantification of Case Studies - Paul Lazarsfeld and W.S. Robinson
A Clinical Case Study - Mervin Durea
The Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light - Martin Glaeser
A Case Study of Public Ownership
EARLY FORAYS IN BUSINESS
Rubber - William Orton
A Case Study
The Influence of Interest Rates upon Entrepreneurial Decisions in Business - J. Franklin Ererbsole
A Case Study
Financial Control - Richard van Wagenen
A Case Study
Profit-Sharing under Collective Bargaining - Joseph Scanlon
Three Case Studies
The WP Club - Alvin Zander
An 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 Study
The Case Study Method and the Establishment of Standards of Efficiency - Preston Lebreton
Some Problems in Conceptualizing Organizational Climate - Chris Argyris
A Case Study of a Bank
DEBATES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH
Qualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance - Matthew Miles
The Problem of Analysis
Some Limitations of the Case Method - Chris Argyris
Experiences in a Management Development Program
The Case Study Crisis - Robert Yin
Some Answers
The Harvard Business School Story - Ianna Contardo and Robin Wensley
Avoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant
The Possibility of the Testimony - Paolo Quattrone
A Case for Case Study Research
The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention - Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welch and Eriikka Paavilainen
Evidence from International Business Journals
Digging Archeology - Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills
Post-Positivist Theory and Archival Research in Case Study Development
VOLUME TWO: POSITIVIST CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in a Major Diversified Firm - Robert Burgelman
Governance, Entrepreneurship and Effectiveness - Monica Diochon
Exploring the Link
Keeping an Eye on the Mirror - Jane Dutton and Janet Dukerich
The Role of Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation
Politics of Strategic Decision-Making in High-Velocity Environments - Kathleen Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois III
Toward a Mid-Range Theory
Toward a Model of Venture Capital Investment Decision-Making - Vance Fried and Robert Hisrich
Time and Transition in Work Teams - Connie Gersick
Toward a New Model of Group Development
Measuring Organizational Cultures - Geert Hofstede et al
A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across 20 Cases
How Consumers Consume - Douglas Holt
A Typology of Consumption Practices
International Sourcing and Supply Chain Stability - David Levy
Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures - Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane and Benjamin Oviatt
The 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. Shrum
Untangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales - Robert Sutton and Anat Raphaeli
The Case of Convenience Stores
Corporate Codes of Ethics and Sales Force Behavior - William Weeks and Jacques Nantel
A Case Study
From Evangelism to General Service - Mayer Zald and Patricia Denton
The Transformation of the YMCA
The Value of the Voting Right - Luigi Zingales
A Study of the Milan Stock-Exchange Experience
VOLUME THREE: INTERPRETIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS
On Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew Pettigrew
The Collapse of Sense-Making in Organizations - Karl Weick
The Mann Gulch Disaster
The Good, the Bad and the Ambivalent - Michael Pratt
Managing Identification among Amway Distributors
The Dark Side of Organizations - Diane Vaughan
Mistake, Misconduct and Disaster
Supermarkets and Culture Clash - Dvora Yanow
The Epistemological Role of Metaphors in Administrative Practice
The Bitter and the Sweet Evolving Constellations of Product Mix Management in a Confectionery Company - Paeivi Eriksson and Keijo Raesaenen
The Accomplishment of School Administration - Peter Gronn
Narrative, Life Story and Manager Identity - Tony Watson
A 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 Neimark
Managing Cultural Diversity - Lucy Taska and Dimitria Groutsis
A Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship - Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache
Engineering Humor - David Collinson
Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations
Change, Talk and Sense-Making - Amy Thurlow and Jean Helms Mills
Towards a Critical Spirituality of Organization - Emma Bell
Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank - Ian Greener
Sociotechnical Networks and the 'Rogue Trader'
Labor and Social Legislation in the United States - David Jacobs
Business Obstructionism and Accommodation
Critical Realism in Case Study Research - Geoff Easton
VOLUME FOUR: CASE STUDY RESEARCH FROM THE TRADITIONS OF THE POST AND BEYOND
Gender Relations and Identity at Work - Mats Alvesson
A Case Study of Masculinities and Femininities in the Advertising Industry
Stories of the Storytelling Organization - David Boje
A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as 'Tamara-Land'
Accounting for the Dark Side of Corporate History - Charles Booth et al
Organizational Culture Perspectives and the Bertelsmann Case
Refusing to Be 'Me' - Joanna Brewis
Entrepreneurial Identities - Laurie Cohen and Gill Musson
Reflections from Two Case Studies
The Managing of the (Third) World - Bill Cooke
On Being a Professional in a 'Big Six' Firm - Christopher Grey
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory - Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips and Stewart Clegg
A Study of the Production of the Research 'Subject'
Networking as Knowledge Work - David Knights, Fergus Murray and Hugh Willmott
A Study of Strategic Inter-Organizational Development in the Financial Services Industry
Globalization, Post-Colonial Theory and Organizational Analysis - Brad Long and Albert Mills
Lessons from the Rwanda Genocide
The Emergence of New Global Institutions - Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy
A Discursive Perspective
Gendering Teamwork - Beverly Metcalfe and Alison Linstead
Re-Writing the Feminine
Representing Markets - Diego Rinallo and Francesca Golfetto
The Shaping of Fashion Trends by French and Italian Fabric Companies
Managing Managerial Identities - Stefan Sveningsson and Mats Alvesson
Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization - Anne Witz, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson
Diversity in the Lean Automobile Factory - Patrizia Zanoni
Doing Class through Gender, Disability and Age
CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION
'Case Study' in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt
Bibliographies - Stephane Dufour and Dominic Fortin
Does Prediction Conflict with Individualization? - Lewis Lawes
Memorandum Concerning a Proposed Research Technique - Robert Angell
On Generalization from Limited Social Data - Frank Alexander Ross
Culture Case Study and Ideal-Typical Method - Howard Becker
With Special Reference to Max Weber
The Quantification of Case Studies - Paul Lazarsfeld and W.S. Robinson
A Clinical Case Study - Mervin Durea
The Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light - Martin Glaeser
A Case Study of Public Ownership
EARLY FORAYS IN BUSINESS
Rubber - William Orton
A Case Study
The Influence of Interest Rates upon Entrepreneurial Decisions in Business - J. Franklin Ererbsole
A Case Study
Financial Control - Richard van Wagenen
A Case Study
Profit-Sharing under Collective Bargaining - Joseph Scanlon
Three Case Studies
The WP Club - Alvin Zander
An 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 Study
The Case Study Method and the Establishment of Standards of Efficiency - Preston Lebreton
Some Problems in Conceptualizing Organizational Climate - Chris Argyris
A Case Study of a Bank
DEBATES IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH
Qualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance - Matthew Miles
The Problem of Analysis
Some Limitations of the Case Method - Chris Argyris
Experiences in a Management Development Program
The Case Study Crisis - Robert Yin
Some Answers
The Harvard Business School Story - Ianna Contardo and Robin Wensley
Avoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant
The Possibility of the Testimony - Paolo Quattrone
A Case for Case Study Research
The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention - Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welch and Eriikka Paavilainen
Evidence from International Business Journals
Digging Archeology - Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills
Post-Positivist Theory and Archival Research in Case Study Development
VOLUME TWO: POSITIVIST CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in a Major Diversified Firm - Robert Burgelman
Governance, Entrepreneurship and Effectiveness - Monica Diochon
Exploring the Link
Keeping an Eye on the Mirror - Jane Dutton and Janet Dukerich
The Role of Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation
Politics of Strategic Decision-Making in High-Velocity Environments - Kathleen Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois III
Toward a Mid-Range Theory
Toward a Model of Venture Capital Investment Decision-Making - Vance Fried and Robert Hisrich
Time and Transition in Work Teams - Connie Gersick
Toward a New Model of Group Development
Measuring Organizational Cultures - Geert Hofstede et al
A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across 20 Cases
How Consumers Consume - Douglas Holt
A Typology of Consumption Practices
International Sourcing and Supply Chain Stability - David Levy
Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures - Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane and Benjamin Oviatt
The 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. Shrum
Untangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales - Robert Sutton and Anat Raphaeli
The Case of Convenience Stores
Corporate Codes of Ethics and Sales Force Behavior - William Weeks and Jacques Nantel
A Case Study
From Evangelism to General Service - Mayer Zald and Patricia Denton
The Transformation of the YMCA
The Value of the Voting Right - Luigi Zingales
A Study of the Milan Stock-Exchange Experience
VOLUME THREE: INTERPRETIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO CASE STUDIES IN BUSINESS
On Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew Pettigrew
The Collapse of Sense-Making in Organizations - Karl Weick
The Mann Gulch Disaster
The Good, the Bad and the Ambivalent - Michael Pratt
Managing Identification among Amway Distributors
The Dark Side of Organizations - Diane Vaughan
Mistake, Misconduct and Disaster
Supermarkets and Culture Clash - Dvora Yanow
The Epistemological Role of Metaphors in Administrative Practice
The Bitter and the Sweet Evolving Constellations of Product Mix Management in a Confectionery Company - Paeivi Eriksson and Keijo Raesaenen
The Accomplishment of School Administration - Peter Gronn
Narrative, Life Story and Manager Identity - Tony Watson
A 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 Neimark
Managing Cultural Diversity - Lucy Taska and Dimitria Groutsis
A Critical Realist Approach to Institutional Entrepreneurship - Bernard Leca and Philippe Naccache
Engineering Humor - David Collinson
Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations
Change, Talk and Sense-Making - Amy Thurlow and Jean Helms Mills
Towards a Critical Spirituality of Organization - Emma Bell
Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank - Ian Greener
Sociotechnical Networks and the 'Rogue Trader'
Labor and Social Legislation in the United States - David Jacobs
Business Obstructionism and Accommodation
Critical Realism in Case Study Research - Geoff Easton
VOLUME FOUR: CASE STUDY RESEARCH FROM THE TRADITIONS OF THE POST AND BEYOND
Gender Relations and Identity at Work - Mats Alvesson
A Case Study of Masculinities and Femininities in the Advertising Industry
Stories of the Storytelling Organization - David Boje
A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as 'Tamara-Land'
Accounting for the Dark Side of Corporate History - Charles Booth et al
Organizational Culture Perspectives and the Bertelsmann Case
Refusing to Be 'Me' - Joanna Brewis
Entrepreneurial Identities - Laurie Cohen and Gill Musson
Reflections from Two Case Studies
The Managing of the (Third) World - Bill Cooke
On Being a Professional in a 'Big Six' Firm - Christopher Grey
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory - Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips and Stewart Clegg
A Study of the Production of the Research 'Subject'
Networking as Knowledge Work - David Knights, Fergus Murray and Hugh Willmott
A Study of Strategic Inter-Organizational Development in the Financial Services Industry
Globalization, Post-Colonial Theory and Organizational Analysis - Brad Long and Albert Mills
Lessons from the Rwanda Genocide
The Emergence of New Global Institutions - Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy
A Discursive Perspective
Gendering Teamwork - Beverly Metcalfe and Alison Linstead
Re-Writing the Feminine
Representing Markets - Diego Rinallo and Francesca Golfetto
The Shaping of Fashion Trends by French and Italian Fabric Companies
Managing Managerial Identities - Stefan Sveningsson and Mats Alvesson
Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization - Anne Witz, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson
Diversity in the Lean Automobile Factory - Patrizia Zanoni
Doing Class through Gender, Disability and Age