Case Studies and Organizational Innovation: Strengthening the Connection. Executive Summary

摘要

Case studies remain one of the most common ways of studying organizational innovation. Because of the persistence of case studies as a methodology, the present study was designed to determine how this methodology might be improved in the future. This objective was pursued by analyzing methodological characteristics in conjunction with external ratings of a set of case studies. The findings are presumed to be useful both to research investigators who do case studies, as well as to research-funding agencies that support the conduct of case studies.