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 BISINESS
CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION
′Case Study′ in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt
Bibliographies - Stéphane 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 - Päivi Eriksson and Keijo Räsänen
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