The ‘‘What’’ and ‘‘How’’ of Case Study Rigor: Three Strategies Based on Published Work

By Michael Gibbert, Winfried Ruigrok. 2010

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Qualitative research for international business (2011, background): “…researchers, to apply hard criteria of research rigour in our work and to report in our publications how we strived for the highest level of rigour (see Dubois & Gibbert, 2010; Gibbert & Ruigrok, 2010; Gibbert, Ruigrok, & Wicki, 2008; and Pratt, 2009, for interesting discussions of these issues).”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter? (2014, unknown): “In addition, single case studies are recognised in the extant management literature as credible sources of insights (for more details see: Gibbert 2006; Gibbert et al. 2008; Gibbert and Ruigrok 2010).”
The Heterogeneity of Family Firms in CSR Engagement (2014, methodology): “Regarding validity and reliability, the present study meets the requirements of internal validity (Gibbert & Ruigrok, 2010) by using three types of strategy: first, we base the research on existing literature and theories; second, we use pattern matching (Eisenhardt, 1989); and third, we use theory…”
How do business model and health technology design influence each other? Insights from a longitudinal case study of three academic spin-offs (2014, methodology): “Applying a “constant comparative” method of analysis (Gibbert and Ruigrok, 2010), our team actively searched for evidence that would contradict our emerging analytical insights (Ferlie et al.”
On doing better science: From thrill of discovery to policy implications (2017, methodology): “…given the idiosyncratic methods used and a general lack of clear description of how data are extracted and analyzed, makes it hard to understand what was done and whether it is replicable (Antonakis, Bastardoz, et al., 2014; Dixon-Woods, et al., 2004; Gibbert & Ruigrok, 2010; Gioia, et al., 2013).”
Strategic agility-driven business model renewal: the case of an SME (2017, methodology): “The present study meets internal validity (e.g. Gibbert and Ruigrok, 2010; Gibbert et al., 2008; Yin, 1994) by using the following primary strategies: first, we base the research on the existing literature; second, we use pattern matching (Eisenhardt, 1989), which compares the observed results with…”
Research Design for Mixed Methods (2017, background): “…‘‘judging’’ particular attributes of a theory.1 Thus, through holistic triangulation, scholars can generate more insight for a theory or develop more complete understandings of a given phenomenon through the use of multiple methodologies (Denzin, 2012; Gibbert & Ruigrok, 2010; Shah & Corley, 2006).”
CEO Succession Origin and Firm Performance: A Multilevel Study (2017, unknown): “Thus, we do encourage future work to use other research designs, such as multiple case studies (Gibbert et al., 2008; Gibbert and Ruigrok, 2010), to complement our findings by examining how multilevel factors impact the CEO-TMT micro-processes that, in turn, shape the performance effects of outside…”
Variable-Centered, Person-Centered, and Person-Specific Approaches (2018, background): “…person-specific analyses may provide large implications for the future of case-study research, which is often used in initial theory creation (Gibbert & Ruigrok, 2010; Piekkari, Welch, & Paavilainen, 2009), and this implication is discussed further below—along with the broader progression of…”
What We Know and Don’t Know About Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “However, we refer readers to the following sources, which provide state-of-the-science information regarding design, measurement, and analysis issues: Cunliffe (2011); Easterby-Smith, Golden-Biddle, and Locke (2008); Gibbert and Ruigrok (2010); Pollach (in press).”