The Case Study in Family Business
分析了2000至2014年间75篇家族企业文献的案例研究设计，发现实证主义是主流，批判实在论和解释主义使用较少，呼吁未来增加后两种方法以促进科学多元主义。
In this study, we identified and analyzed 75 articles in the family business (FB) literature between 2000 and 2014 as to the case study design they adopted. We found that the positivistic case study approach is the FB disciplinary convention. The two alternative approaches of critical realism and interpretivism are used to a significantly lesser extent. We anticipate that in the future the positivistic approach will continue to be used widely. The other two approaches can be employed to a higher extent since their use is likely to contribute to a scientific pluralism in FB case study research.