Case Studies in Family Business Research
Kontinen, T., Ojala, A., & Plakoyiannaki, E. (2012). Case Studies in Family Business Research. In Proceedings of 57th International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference. ICSB. http://www.icsb2012.org.nz/
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Based on a review of 63 case studies from the family business field, the authors emphasize
the potential of critical realist case studies for family business scholars. The review revealed
that the positivistic case study introduced by Yin and Eisenhardt is the disciplinary
convention of family business field. Since there are several events and mechanisms
underspinning social phenomena, such as succession, they need to be both explanained
(erklären, matching the positivist view) and understood (verstehen, matching the
constructivist/interpretive view) which is the staring point of critical realism (Bhaskar, 1998;
Sayer, 1992). Hence critical realis ontology can be very fruitful for future studies. In a critical
realist case study, the research question addresses a research phenomenon of interest, in terms
of discernible events, and asks what causes them to happen (Easton, 2010). This matches FB
research that studies events, mechanisms and processes in special.
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