Allison M Beaulieu, Katherine M Hunold, Jennifer Mitzman, Simiao Li-Sauerwine
The Impact of Faculty Gender on Resident Evaluations of Faculty Performance in Emergency Medicine
Cureus
describes process building theories case studies examines strengths weaknesses process case study research strategy one goal understand dynamics present within individual environment steps identified building theory include selecting cases crafting instruments protocols entering field analyzing data shaping hypotheses enfolding literature reaching closure process highly iterative closely tied empirical data using case studies build theory several advantages first likely generate novel theory additionally theories generated likely built constructs measurable theories likely empirically valid hand approach weaknesses include theories overly complex narrow idiosyncratic approach best used situations one want rely previous literature prior empirical evidence theories generated approach must grounded convincing evidence present novel ideas meet requirements good theory srd