Structured Content Analysis of Cases: A Complementary Method for Organizational Research

In this article, we introduce a comparatively new method that uses case materials for the development and testing of hypotheses. After comparing cases to questionnaires as a data source, we explain the key role of the content analysis schedule, and provide an illustration centering on environmental volatility.

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