案例研究为什么能为本土管理理论作出贡献——学理基础与构建路径

Why Can Case Studies Contribute to Local Management Theory:Theoretical Basis and Construction Path

尽管学术界关于案例研究能够助推本土管理理论的认识逐渐形成共识,但对于案例研究为什么能够为本土管理理论作出贡献仍然存在认识难以达成统一、方法有待进一步规范、研究较为碎片化等诸多挑战。本文基于对案例研究探索性功能的理解,梳理案例研究的知识发现过程,总结归纳背后的内在逻辑,提出了涵盖“归纳—溯因—演绎”三阶段的统一底层逻辑,形成了一套各管理学派可以共用的知识发现结构框架,以辅助管理学者进行更深层次的研究。厘清学理基础并在构建路径上建立起共用的逻辑框架,是进一步推动案例研究助力本土管理理论研究走出困境、走向世界的根本出路。

Although the academic community gradually reaches a consensus on the understanding that case studies can boost local management theories, there are still many challenges as to why case studies can contribute to local management theories, such as difficulty to reaching a consensus on understanding, methods to be further standardized, and research fragmentation. Based on the understanding of the exploratory function of case studies, this paper sorts out the knowledge discovery process of case studies, summarizes the internal logic behind the induction, and proposes a unified underlying logic covering the three stages of ’induction-abductive-deduction’, forming a set of knowledge discovery structure framework that can be shared by all management schools to assist management scholars to conduct deeper studies.Clarifying the theoretical basis and establishing a common logical framework in the construction path is the fundamental way to further promoting the case study to help local management theory out of the dilemma and into the world.