Case Study Methodology in Business Research

Foreword (Chris Voss, London Business School) Aims and overview of this book A review of case studies in business research (Raf Jans and Koen Dittrich) Principles of empirical research Theory-testing research Part II: Theory-testing in case study research Testing sufficient and necessary conditions How to test a sufficient or a necessary condition Case study 1: Testing a theory of collaboration characteristics of innovation projects (Koen Dittrich) Methodological reflection on case study 1 Case study 2: Testing a theory of ideal typical organizational configurations of successful product innovations (Ferdinand Jaspers and Jan van den Ende Methodological reflection on case study 2 Testing a deterministic…