Hak, A.; Dul, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009
Theory-building with cases is (a) formulating new propositions that emerge from the empirical evidence in a sample of … theoretical formulations are accepted as a result of the theory-building study that are confirmed in a test in the sample from … test that new proposition in the same study because this would require a comparison in a sample of cases. The term theory-building …