Case research in operations management
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...Subsequently, a number of articles have suggested the use of a priori constructs to help shape the initial design of theory building research (Bourgeois and Eisenhardt, 1988; McCutcheon and Meredith, 1993; Voss et al., 2002)....
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...Although research questions may evolve over time and constructs may be modified (Eisenhardt, 1989; Voss et al., 2002), there must be focus which helps maintain consistency throughout data collection and analysis (Benbasat et al., 1987)....
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...…2007; Harris and Sutton, 1986; Langley, 1999; Yin, 1989, 1994), information systems (Benbasat et al., 1987; Cavaye, 1996; Lee, 1989), marketing (Bonoma, 1985; Hillebrand et al., 2001; Johnston et al., 1999), and operations management (Meredith et al., 1989; Stuart et al., 2002; Voss et al., 2002)....
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...As an alternative to survey-based research, other OM scholars have promoted the use of qualitative case study research (Lewis, 1998; McCutcheon and Meredith, 1993; Meredith et al., 1989; Voss et al., 2002)....
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...Researchers employ an inductive logic, utilizing a variety of methods to collect primarily qualitative data from which to develop relevant and testable theories (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007; Fisher, 2007; Roth, 2007; Voss et al., 2002)....
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...Further, even though the tools are used by the supplier, retooling is actually paid by the buyer (Walker and Weber, 1984, p. 376)....
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...For example, the situationally grounded observation of echnological uncertainty linking to the make rather than the buy ecision (Walker and Weber, 1984) is made more broadly relevant n two ways....
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...For instance, Walker and Weber (1984) is a representative example of theory-testing case research not because it unambiguously belongs to this category but because it effectively illustrates, in particular, how a researcher can transcend the specific empirical context and seek generality using…...
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...It is important to try to reduce data into categories (Miles and Huberman, 1994; Glaser and Strauss, 1967). The existence of good documentation of observations and multiple sources of evidence allows a chain of evidence to be established. Incidents of phenomena in the data are coded into categories. By comparing each incident with previous incidents in the same category, the researcher develops theoretical properties of categories and the dimensions of these properties (Partington, 2000). Many researchers have followed the coding scheme suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1990). They propose three steps....
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...It is important to try to reduce data into categories (Miles and Huberman, 1994; Glaser and Strauss, 1967)....
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...It is important to try to reduce data into categories (Miles and Huberman, 1994; Glaser and Strauss, 1967). The existence of good documentation of observations and multiple sources of evidence allows a chain of evidence to be established. Incidents of phenomena in the data are coded into categories. By comparing each incident with previous incidents in the same category, the researcher develops theoretical properties of categories and the dimensions of these properties (Partington, 2000). Many researchers have followed the coding scheme suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1990). They propose three steps. The first step is open coding ± data are fragmented or taken apart. Concepts are the basic building blocks of theory and open coding is an analytic process by which concepts are identified and are developed in terms of their properties and dimensions. Individual observations, sentences, ideas, events are given names and then regrouped into sub-categories which in turn can be grouped as categories. The next step is axial coding ± putting together the data in new ways. The objective of this step is to regroup and link categories into each other in a rational manner. The final step is selective coding ± selecting a core category and relating it to other categories. An example of this in operations management research is a study of blackbox engineering by Karlsson et al. (1998). One of the drivers of doing good data documentation and coding is to improve reliability....
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...Yin (1994) has described in detail case research design, and Glaser and Strauss (1967) described the grounded theory method....
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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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