关键词: 案例研究, 数据, 科学性, 评价体系, Case study, Data Source, Data scientific, Evaluation system

Abstract: Case study has become an important research method for domestic scholars to explore management theory under the Chinese context. A major charge against it is the difficulty in the obtaining firs-data. On contrast, most case studies were researched with secondary data. Thus, there is a question about the scientific of different kind of data for case study. This article, first of all sorts out the theories about case study scientific in literature on case study methodology. Based on existing theories, this article proposes a comprehensive evaluation system for assessing the rigor in handling data by case study researchers. The evaluation system consists of two elements: the data analysis strategy and data collection strategy. The article then analyzes how case researchers deal with the difficult issue of data scientific in practice by examining 122 sample publications using case study method published between 2007 and 2011 in five leading management academic journals, and compared with those samples using firs data and samples with secondary data. The purpose of this paper is to provide a evaluation system for case researchers when dealing with different kind of data, and some strategies were given at last in order to publish more high-level case studies papers.