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But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success? Looking at examples of failure? Working from a-priori theories? Both seem worse.
by tlb 6y ago
But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success? Looking at examples of failure? Working from a-priori theories? Both seem worse.
- daveFNbuck 6y agoYou should look at both successes and failures. When you only look at one or the other, the features you pick out might not be unique to that group.
- xenocyon 6y ago> But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success? Controlled experiments and/or causal analysis.
- 542458 6y agoPeople generally don’t hand out multimillion dollar assets to do controlled experiments on, and even then the “control” would be relatively weak since there are so many uncontrolled variables. Does statistical causal analysis work when there are this many variables? Feels like that would just be essentially a case study again.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago> Does statistical causal analysis work when there are this many variables? Yes, that's the whole point. It works when you can "simulate" experiments by looking at a large number of events. E.g. DNA evolution in genetics, drug testing in medicine, studying failure modes in aeronautics...
- jonny_eh 6y agoI guess you could watch The Apprentice shudder
- petra 6y agoSome management theories are quite useful. Clayton's Christensen's disruption theory was useful. But nothing's bulletproof, of course. So maybe looking at the methodologies serious business academics use to write their PHD, and their work in general, is a good alternative to case studies ?