Scholarly Articles

Building upon our past “From the Editor” articles that focused on cases in the classroom (Peters, Cellucci, and Ford, 2015; Cellucci, Peters, and Woodruff, 2015), the purpose of this ar

Team SōPOD, a student-lead business startup, was required to follow Lean Startup Methodologies and utilize the Business Model Canvas to validate their business idea.

Thus, for this issue, our “From the Editors” article focuses on points made during the workshops.

In Vol. 33 (1), we focused the discussion on cases in the classroom, and we asserted that cases offer value for student learning (Peters, Cellucci, and Ford, 2015).

Based on our own experiences in the classroom, at Society for Case Research meetings, and our working with this journal, we put forth that some of us really began to learn what a case was by atte

As writers who have made numerous attempts to create cases (some more successful than others) we are often asked, "how do you find a topic?" or "what topics make good cases?" These questions are

This descriptive case was designed for use in an undergraduate course in social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, or business ethics.

The Society for Case Research held a preconference workshop to help authors improve their case research skills.

In 2007, after raising nearly $1.5 million in seed money, Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad quit their jobs and founded Flat World.

This decision oriented case illustrates the critical abilities needed for starting and developing a small business.

Dr. Cara Peters, Associate Editor of Journal for Case Studies, has a long-time friend from graduate school who used to be an active member of the Society for Case Research.

Dr.

As editors, our goal is to facilitate the publishing of interesting and relevant cases that allow for students to evaluate real-world events and experiences.

Over time, each of the editors of the Journal of Case Studies has set a goal to improve the quality of publications produced by the journal.

Cases are real life, true stories. The story is told about a real event in a real organization in a real industry.

John Stuve was a professor who had recently moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. John met Steve Finley at a church social event.

Hammerhead Systems (HS) evolved from the incubator stage inside a venture capitalist (VC) firm.

Laird Jennings, a long time senior software engineer at Circle 6 Corporation became increasingly concerned about his future employment due to a series of events that threatened the survival of th

This case involves an entrepreneurial company’s decision on whether to expand or not expand due to over-crowding issues at their current location.