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1、CopyrightoftheAcademyofManagement,allrightsreserved.Contentsmaynotbecopied,AcademyofManagementJournalemailed,postedtoalistserv,orotherwisetransmittedwithoutthecopyrightholder’sexpress2007,Vol.50,No.1,25–32.writtenpermission.Usersmayprint,downloadoremaila
2、rticlesforindividualuseonly.THEORYBUILDINGFROMCASES:OPPORTUNITIESANDCHALLENGESKATHLEENM.EISENHARDTStanfordUniversityMELISSAE.GRAEBNERUniversityofTexasatAustinTheAcademyofManagementJournalhastakenaccounts,suchasWeick’s(1993)studyoftheManntheleadamongmajorj
3、ournalsinspotlightingalter-Gulchfire,buttheyaremorelikelytobecontem-nativemethodsthattakeadvantageofrichempiri-porarydescriptionsofrecentevents,suchasGil-caldata.Inaseriesof“FromtheEditor”commen-bert’s(2005)studyofadaptationtodiscontinuoustaries,scholarsc
4、ogentlyhaveexplicatedrelatedenvironmentalchangebynewspaperorganizations.topicssuchasqualitativeresearch(Gephart,2004),Thecentralnotionistousecasesasthebasisfromgroundedtheorybuilding(Suddaby,2006),thewhichtodeveloptheoryinductively.Thetheoryisvalueofrichn
5、ess(Weick,2007)andthepersuasiveemergentinthesensethatitissituatedinandpowerofthesinglecase(Siggelkow,2007).Inthisdevelopedbyrecognizingpatternsofrelationshipscommentary,wefocusontherelatedresearchstrat-amongconstructswithinandacrosscasesandtheiregyoftheor
6、ybuildingfromcases,particularlymul-underlyinglogicalarguments.tiplecases.CentraltobuildingtheoryfromcasestudiesisScholarshaveusedcasestudiestodevelopthe-replicationlogic(Eisenhardt,1989b).Thatis,eachoryabouttopicsasdiverseasgroupprocess(Ed-caseservesasadi
7、stinctexperimentthatstandsonmondson,Bohmer,&Pisano,2001),internalorgan-itsownasananalyticunit.Likeaseriesofrelatedization(Galunic&Eisenhardt,2001;Gilbert,2005),laboratoryexperiments,multiplecasesarediscreteandstrategy(Mintzberg&Waters,1982).Classicexperim
8、entsthatserveasreplications,contrasts,scholars(Chandler,1962;Whyte,1941)aswellasandextensionstotheemergingtheory(Yin,1994).theauthorsofhighlyregardedAMJpapers(DuttonButwhilelaboratoryexperimentsisolatethephe-&Dukeri