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‘Good’ case research in industrial marketing: Insights from research practice |
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| Authors: | Rebecca Piekkari [Author Vitae] Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki [Author Vitae] Catherine Welch [Author Vitae] |
| Institution: | a Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Marketing and Management, Discipline of International Business, PO Box 1210, FI-00101 Helsinki. Finland b Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, School of Economics, Department of Business Administration, Thessaloniki, 54 124, Greece c Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland d University of Sydney, Australia, Discipline of International Business, Institute Building, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to contribute to the emerging debate about the use of the case methodology in industrial marketing. We conducted a content analysis of the 145 case studies published in three key journals (Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing and Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing) over a 10-year period (1997-2006). The findings highlight the dominance of case research in qualitative industrial marketing research. They also lead us to distinguish between three different practices that influence perceptions of ‘good’ case research in this scholarly domain: ‘common’ practice, ‘best practice’ and ‘innovative’ practice. Our contribution lies in problematising what ‘good’ case research is, and showing how research practice - not just methodological literature - has a role in generating methodological conventions in a disciplinary field. |
| Keywords: | Case study Industrial marketing Qualitative methods Methodology |
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