Building theories from case study research.
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...Field notes are a running commentary about what is happening in the research, involving both observation and analysis, preferably separate from one another (Eisenhardt, 1989)....
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...Interviews are usually conducted by a single investigator, but as Eisenhardt (1989) points out, the use of multiple investigators can have advantages....
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...In particular, we will draw on the work of Eisenhardt (1989), who brought together much of the previous work on building theory from case research....
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...Eisenhardt (1989) argues that a priori specification of constructs is valuable because `̀ It permits researchers to measure constructs more accurately....
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...However, in case research we often build a sample of cases by selecting cases according to different criteria (Eisenhardt, 1989; Yin, 1994)....
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...Eisenhardt (1989) argues that parsimony is the hallmark...
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...reader with information that makes it possible to evaluate the adequacy of the research procedure and its outcomes (Eisenhardt, 1989)....
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...One striking feature regarding how to build theory from case studies in general is that of ‘‘frequent overlap of data analysis with data collection’’ (Eisenhardt, 1989)....
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...It is important to provide the reader with information that makes it possible to evaluate the adequacy of the research procedure and its outcomes (Eisenhardt, 1989)....
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...reader with information that makes it possible to evaluate the adequacy of the research procedure and its outcomes (Eisenhardt, 1989). Logical coherence as a foundation for analytical generalization is an important criterion for quality in case research. The third problem with case research relates to the fact that some researchers tend to describe everything and ‘as a result describe nothing’. Such studies interfere with a second criterion of research quality. According to Pfeffer (1982), ‘‘good theory should be parsimonious....
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...One is the work on grounded theory building by Glaser and Strauss (1967) and, more recently, Strauss (1987)....
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...Third, particularly in comparison with Strauss (1987) and Van Maanen (1988), the process described here adopts a positivist view of research....
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...Glaser and Strauss (1967) and more recently Strauss (1987) have outlined pieces of the process, but theirs is a prescribed formula, and new ideas have emerged from methodologists (e.g., Yin, 1984; Miles & Huberman, 1984) and researchers conducting this type of research (e.g., Gersick, 1988; Harris…...
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