Case Survey Methodology: Quantitative Analysis of Patterns Across Case Studies.

Larsson, Rikard

doi:10.2307/256820

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“…The main advantages of the case survey method are its ability to collect richer information than conventional survey, and extendibility to study more cases. That said, the data collected by a case survey are limited by the scope of the questionnaire instrument [33], [35]. Validity threats of our study are discussed in Section 3.3.…”

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A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Klotins

Unterkalmsteiner

Chatzipetrou

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Context: Software start-ups are emerging as suppliers of innovation and software-intensive products. However, traditional software engineering practices are not evaluated in the context, nor adopted to goals and challenges of start-ups. As a result, there is insufficient support for software engineering in the start-up context. Objective: We aim to collect data related to engineering goals, challenges, and practices in start-up companies to ascertain trends and patterns characterizing engineering work in start-ups. Such data allows researchers to understand better how goals and challenges are related to practices. This understanding can then inform future studies aimed at designing solutions addressing those goals and challenges. Besides, these trends and patterns can be useful for practitioners to make more informed decisions in their engineering practice. Method: We use a case survey method to gather first-hand, in-depth experiences from a large sample of software start-ups. We use open coding and cross-case analysis to describe and identify patterns, and corroborate the findings with statistical analysis. Results: We analyze 84 start-up cases and identify 16 goals, 9 challenges, and 16 engineering practices that are common among startups. We have mapped these goals, challenges, and practices to start-up life-cycle stages (inception, stabilization, growth, and maturity). Thus, creating the progression model guiding software engineering efforts in start-ups. Conclusions: We conclude that start-ups to a large extent face the same challenges and use the same practices as established companies. However, the primary software engineering challenge in start-ups is to evolve multiple process areas at once, with a little margin for serious errors.

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“…The original case survey method description suggests using coding and statistical methods to analyze the data [33]. However, we extend the method by adding more steps from the theory building process proposed by Eisenhardt [34].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

Klotins

Unterkalmsteiner

Chatzipetrou

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Then each author conducted open coding to independently generate additional descriptive codes and categories based on what was seen and heard in the data set. In the final stage of coding, the three analysts collaboratively explored the possible interpretations of these codes and categories and collectively reached a single unified framework of themes that was endorsed as the best representation of the data (Hill, Thompson, & NuttWilliams, 1997;Larsson, 1993).…”

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A Theory of Relational Ageism: A Discourse Analysis of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging

2017

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Purpose: The widespread use of ageist language is generally accepted as commonplace and routine in most cultures and settings. In order to disrupt ageism, we must examine the use of ageist language and sentiments among those on the front line of providing advocacy, services, and policy for older adults; the professional culture of the aging services network. The recorded video segments from the sixth White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) provided a unique opportunity to examine discourse used by professionals and appointed representatives in the field of aging within a professional sociocultural context. Design and Methods: A qualitative discourse analysis of video recordings was used to analyze the 15 video fragments that comprised the recorded sessions of the 2015 WHCOA. Results: About 26 instances were identified that captured statements expressing personal age, aging or an age-related characteristic negatively in regard to self or other (microageism), and/or statements expressing global negative opinions or beliefs about aging and older adults based on group membership (macroageism). A theoretical pathway was established that represents the dynamic process by which ageist statements were expressed and reinforced (relational ageism). Implications: Numerous instances of ageism were readily identified as part of a live streamed and publically accessible professional conference attended and presented by representatives of the aging services network. To make meaningful gains in the movement to disrupt ageism and promote optimal aging for all individuals, we must raise awareness of the relational nature, expression, and perpetuation of ageism.

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“…The segmentation of the market can be seen as being partly due to a methodological misconception. It is our contention that the decision of whether nomothetic or idiographic methods are to be employed should not be based on paradigmatic considerations (Larsson, 1993). We propose instead methodological pragmatism.…”

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Market Segmentation in Scientific Publications: Research Patterns in American vs European Management Journals¹

Collin

Johansson

Svensson

et al. 1996

British J of Management

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Ideal science should conform to certain criteria or goals, among them the goals of universalism and communality. Realization of these goals may be limited, however, through the dividing up of researchers in terms of geographical borders. In this study the general hypothesis is tested that there is a segmentation of the society of management researchers into a North American (US) and a European (E) segment, a segmentation which is Mhered by differences in incentive schemes and in paradigms. Four leading management journals from North America and from Europe, respectively, and the 242 articles they contained published in 1993 were selected to represent the different geographical segments. The results provide: support for the existence of two such segments; support for differences in incentive schemes influencing the articles; support for their being paradigm differences between the two segments; and support for a paradigm effect being stronger in US-journals than in E-journals, US-authors are more willing, however, to conform to the E-paradigm than vice versa We argue for methodological pragmatism in order to reduce the presumed countepproductive effects of paradigmatic rigidity.

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Case Survey Methodology: Quantitative Analysis of Patterns Across Case Studies.

Cited by 337 publications

References 49 publications

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

A Theory of Relational Ageism: A Discourse Analysis of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Market Segmentation in Scientific Publications: Research Patterns in American vs European Management Journals¹

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A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

A Progression Model of Software Engineering Goals, Challenges, and Practices in Start-Ups

A Theory of Relational Ageism: A Discourse Analysis of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Market Segmentation in Scientific Publications: Research Patterns in American vs European Management Journals1

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