WHAT PASSES AS A RIGOROUS CASE STUDY?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gibbert, Michael; Ruigrok, Winfried; Wicki, Barbara
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; University of St Gallen; SBS Swiss Business School
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.722
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1465-1474
• 关键词: case studies; case study research; validity; reliability

摘要

This article investigates the methodological sophistication of case studies as a tool for generating and testing theory analyzing case studies-published during the period 1995-2000 in 10 influential management journals. We find that case studies emphasized external validity at the expense of the two more fundamental quality measures, internal and construct validity. Comparing case studies published in the three highest-ranking journals with the other seven, we reveal strategies that may be useful for authors wishing to conduct methodologically rigorous case study research. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.