Kathleen M. Eisenhardt's scientific contributions

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- This paper describes the process of inducting theory using case studies from specifying the research questions to reaching closure. Some features of the process, such as problem definition and construct validation, are similar to hypothesis-testing research. Others, such as within-case analysis and replication logic, are unique to the inductive,...

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... This study draws on qualitative case study research and utilises an interpretive approach (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2000) that moves back and forth between theory and empirical material, and leads to an understanding of culture and society (Dana and Dana, 2005). The in-depth study of a single case provided a unique opportunity (Eisenhardt, 1989;Yin, 2003) to illustrate a phenomenon and to analyse and understand the important aspects of the environment and the interaction of key actors with it (Dana and Dana, 2005). ...