The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science is in the enviable position of being a go-to journal for many readers seeking useable insights for solving practical problems in managing modern organizations. A perennial source of such knowledge has been case studies, but case studies have been treated as questionable sources of widely applicable knowledge because they have been assumed to be idiosyncratic and to lack adequate “scientific” rigor. In this brief article, I argue for using a methodological approach to studying single cases that addresses both these thorny problems.

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进行定性研究的系统方法

《应用行为科学杂志》处于令人羡慕的地位，它是许多寻求解决现代组织管理实际问题的有用见解的读者的首选期刊。此类知识的一个长期来源是案例研究，但案例研究被视为广泛适用知识的可疑来源，因为它们被认为是特殊的并且缺乏足够的“科学”严谨性。在这篇简短的文章中，我主张使用一种方法论方法来研究解决这些棘手问题的单个案例。