Renaissance of case research as a scientific method

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 232-240

  Ketokivi, Mikko ^a   Choi, Thomas ^b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case research; Methodology; Reasoning; Theory building; Theory elaboration; Theory testing

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

METHODOLOGY; REASONING; THEORY BUILDING; THEORY ELABORATION; THEORY TESTING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84899876162     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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