Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges

By Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Melissa E. Graebner. 2007

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Contrasting Entrepreneurial Economic Development in Emerging Latin American Economies: Applications and Extensions of Resource-Based Theory (2007, methodology): “Below we organize our discussion about the differences in these two communities around the research questions of interest (Eisenhardt & Graebner, 2007) and use categories of resources that the literature suggests are important and which manifest themselves in these two cases.”
Factors distinguishing small firm growers and non-growers (2011, methodology): “Using multiple cases means that the final set of propositions will be parsimonious but robust (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007: 30).”
How firms collaborate with public research organizations : The evolution of proximity dimensions in successful innovation projects (2016, background): “Multiple-case studies provide a stronger base for theory construction than single-case studies (Yin, 1989), as the emergent findings can be compared across cases and as the findings may be grounded by varied empirical evidence (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007).”
Service-based differentiation strategies for business incubators: Exploring external and internal alignment (2012, methodology): “…practice obligates the researcher to triangulate, that is, to use multiple methods, data sources and researchers, to enhance the validity of research findings,’’ which in turn improves reliability and validity (Bryman and Bell, 2007; Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007; Ghauri, 2004; Pratt, 2009).”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, methodology): “This increased the likelihood of selecting cases that displayed variety in the use of effectuation and causation logic over time, enabling more robust theory development (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007).”
Lean principles, learning, and knowledge work: Evidence from a software services provider (2011, methodology): “This iteration between fieldwork and data analysis is an important part of the case study research process (Eisenhardt, 1989; Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007).”
Defeating the Toxic Boss: The Nature of Toxic Leadership and the Role of Followers (2020, methodology): “At this stage, we also engaged in the theory-building process “via recursive cycling among the case data, emerging theory, and later, extant literature” (Eisenhardt & Graebner, 2007, p. 25).”
Getting on board: Organizational socialization and the contribution of social capital (2013, methodology): “A qualitative method is more likely to yield new insights into complex social phenomena (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007; Patton, 2002; Silverman, 2005).”
The economics of COVID-19: initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis (2020, methodology): “Including multiple cases allowed for a robust research approach with more generalizable findings (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007; Yin, 2013, 2017).”