When Truth is the Daughter of Time: Longitudinal Case Studies in International Business Research

Putting Process (Back) In: Research on the Internationalization Process of the Firm

“…In practice, identifying process data is not straightforward. Kimberly () posed the question, ‘How long is longitudinal?’, and even now, no generally accepted definitions of longitudinal or process data have been settled on (Blazejewski ; Paavilainen‐Mäntymäki and Raukko ). As Kimberly () notes, any answer to the question of how many time points are required needs to be contextualized to suit the research topic and theoretical perspective (see also Strauss and Corbin ).…”

Offshoring of higher education services in strategic nets: A dynamic capabilities perspective

“…Our focus on a single case study is explained by the unique situation that allows more in-depth analysis of the empirical phenomena in their contexts (Dubois & Gadde, 2002;Yin, 1994). We present our study in line with calls for longitudinal studies in international business research (Blazajewski, 2011) in order to access the unfolding process (Partanen & Mö ller, 2012) of the transformation of Curtin's network of multiple partners over time.…”

Offshore outsourcing: A dynamic, operation mode perspective

“…Case study approaches are also useful when trying to follow longitudinal patterns and processes of some complexity (Patton, 1990;Pratt, 2009;Blazejewski, 2011;Soulsby & Clark, 2011), as in this study, in which we retrospectively studied the outsourcing development over a number of years from its inception in SimCorp HQ in Copenhagen (2002) to ultimate subsidiary establishment in Kiev (2007) and beyond. Case study research has long been regarded as a suitable research approach when the focus of research is on "how" and "why" questions (Yin, 2003;Ghauri, 2004), and these were critical questions for our study as we sought to understand how SimCorp came to be involved in and went about outsourcing, the driving forces behind this move, and the process that led it to eventually replace its independent suppliers with its own subsidiary.…”