Business-to-business (B2B) marketing has a long tradition of using qualitative case studies.Industrial Marketing Management, for example, has actively encouraged the use of qualitative case study methods, resulting in many important theoretical advances in B2B marketing.However, debate still rages over the nature of "research quality" in qualitative case studies.Based on an analysis of 105 case-based articles appearing in the period
in IndustrialMarketing Management, we analyze how authors address research quality. As a result of our analysis, we recommend that qualitative case researchers need to address explicitly epistemological stance and issues of research quality; methods, including sampling decisions, data collection tools, and analysis; and, finally, triangulation of data, methods, and researchers.