How to Improve Case Use

Question 27

23.10.2002 11:10:33

hklein@rh.edu

continue to \'educate\' deans and administraters of the validity of case writing, case research and case based teaching

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28.10.2002 08:18:53

test@test.uga.edu

test record

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28.10.2002 16:20:07

fransson@rh.edu

Hold a case writing seminar here.

Add Society for Case Research to the above list

of case research and writing organizations.

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28.10.2002 17:13:47

fisherje@slu.edu

publish refereed case journal

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28.10.2002 21:03:48

allan.conway@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

maybe by making it central to the different ranking criteria used by various publications

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29.10.2002 04:30:06

zufan@mendelu.cz

By organizing a WACRA conference at our university...

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29.10.2002 07:32:44

hans.gylenhammar@medhs.ki.se

By continuing to offer conferences and the newsletter for course-announcements etc.

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29.10.2002 09:13:14

demich@earthlink.net

Market WACRA to administrators, faculty, and students (especially doctoral students)...perhaps through current members (ongoing at this time). Provide programs that appeal to all three categories (admin, fac, students) with emphasis on \"teamwork\" needed to advance the use of case studies in the classroom. Use administrators (holders of the purse strings) to give keynote speeches...perhaps with faculty from same institution. Provide specific opportunity for doctoral students to attend (fund

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29.10.2002 09:54:16

gerard.mortimer@dit.ie

Case use is long established at DIT and is

regarded as a vital component of most courses in

the business faculty.

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29.10.2002 10:21:22

Offer case writing workshops

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29.10.2002 10:55:08

mboland@agecon.ksu.edu

I didn\'t know it had a journal.

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29.10.2002 11:02:54

Provide a forum for publishing cases -- i.e. e-journal.

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29.10.2002 11:09:26

kheriot@fmarion.edu

An AACSB Advisor advising my former school noted that peer-reviewed journal articles are absolutely the primary intellectual contribution evaluated by an AACSB Accreditation team. Any other work is considered far less important. Hence, it is somewhat irrelevant what I think my school values if my school\'s accrediting body does not have the same opinion. I suspect many schools encourage case-wrting only to find that cases are not highly valued by AACSB. Both my current and former school did

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29.10.2002 11:13:50

jgogan@bentley.edu

send best WACRA cases to our deans

provide examples of how case writing can be part of a rigorous research stream

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29.10.2002 12:06:14

polson@rh.edu

WACRA should consider establishing a Journal of Case Study Analysis. This would assist the university\'s administration to better understand the value of case studies at their universities. As a professor in a School of Management, we use case studies in most management courses,

however the \"value\" of case writing is not high. WACRA needs to develop more case writing seminars and invite administrators and tenured faculty members to establish more academic credibility. Additionally, the WACRA

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29.10.2002 12:19:37

use: perhaps seminars on teaching w/ cases.

writing: promote cases as research (methodology)

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29.10.2002 12:37:06

Humm, are there two or three really good published studies out there indicating the value of case research? Perhaps NACRA and WACRA could join in creating a package including such papers to be sent out to my dean.

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29.10.2002 12:37:10

thomas.lyon@rockhurst.edu

Start publishing articles and info on the value, rigor, acceptance rates and tie to Porter McKibbin report and to AACSB mission based accreditation process. Also tie to Boyers work.

Got to convince old term deans and faculty by putting it out in front of them.

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29.10.2002 12:14:01

can\'t really think of anything

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29.10.2002 14:09:35

fransson@rh.edu

You omitted Society for Case Research. I have been attending their meetings and conferences for the last three years.

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29.10.2002 14:22:15

By encouraging those leading institutions that most fully recognise case writing activity as a basis for promotion/tenure decisions to make it more widely known. The issue is primarily one of legitimacy and the top institutions are the norm makers for the sector.

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29.10.2002 15:37:34

DRBUTTARO@AOL.COM or lbuttaro@kbcc.cuny.

By sending flyers to promote what the organization does. We can then post everything on our bulletin and that way have everyone develop an interest

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29.10.2002 15:56:31

simons@rpi.edu

Not needed

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29.10.2002 15:50:29

Promote free use of cases that are in machine readable form - HBS cases too expensive and inconvenient for our students

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29.10.2002 15:49:00

cohen@babson.edu

develop criteria for quality

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29.10.2002 15:54:19

pphan@rpi.edu

Make it easy to search for cases on your site. Make is easy to download cases (pdf) format. Make the adoption of cases royalty free.

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29.10.2002 16:07:18

Support case journals like CRJ which are blind, peer-reviewed with limited acceptance rates.

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29.10.2002 16:14:40

hjones@ugf.edu

Possibly, through a workshop.

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29.10.2002 16:16:11

c.patti@qut.edu.au

At my university,cases are accepted as equal

in value to other published research

they must be refereed and published. Therefore,

WACRA can assist us by refereeing and publishing

cases.

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29.10.2002 16:33:26

this is a bloddy awful questionnaire. Need to constantly scroll. Asks studpid question - how many years accredited.

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29.10.2002 16:47:09

jdhunger@iastate.edu

Establish a journal for publishing cases and case related material.

If the case appears in a journal, it is counted as something of value.

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29.10.2002 16:14:50

mwelsh@gwm.sc.edu

Continue promoting research into the effectiveness of case method instruction.

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29.10.2002 17:32:21

tmorris@sandiego.edu

I don\'t really know, this is a personal decision to write and use cases. Our faculty have a lot of latitude to use whatever teaching method they want. Some use straight lecture, others use simulations, some use cases. There is no \"recommended\" style.

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29.10.2002 19:20:21

gardner@uleth.ca

I wish I knew the answer to that one. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for years to get more attention and interest in case writing and case teaching.

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29.10.2002 21:58:00

wasif@lums.edu.pk

WACRA can stress the value of quality cases as genuine research work

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30.10.2002 03:46:19

By offering the possibility to publish original case studies in journals \'which count\' (towards the tenure)

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30.10.2002 09:51:59

erosker@uces.edu.ar

By promoting the WACRA 2004 Conference in Buenos Aires

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30.10.2002 09:54:58

rbrunson@alvincollege.edu

We in the business fields especially use cases-it is a community college and we are not expected to do research, hence, somewhat a lack of interest.

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30.10.2002 10:17:15

tfriel@butler.edu

notify me of opportunities for publication, and training classes

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30.10.2002 18:27:38

Walter_Greene@hotmail.com

copy to dean john emery

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31.10.2002 05:04:31

kamal.abouzeid@zu.ac.ae

Iam trying to get some of our faculty to join. Once they join, they could attend WACRA \'s annual conferences for professional developmen and participate in its activities.

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31.10.2002 07:58:56

Dgrune34@aol.com

Develop a refereed case study journal perhaps on line

More emphasis on cases at your conferences

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31.10.2002 10:05:23

mao@fcee.urv.es

- A virtual case clearing house

- Improve web services

- Virtual comunitios

- e-books

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31.10.2002 12:04:24

m-govekar@onu.edu

We have trouble getting from the case idea to the case draft stage

Access and publication permission are particularly important roadblocks

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31.10.2002 14:20:03

cdarden@pepperdine.edu

Realistically, there\'s not much that WACRA (or NACRA) can do to impact the somewhat negative attitude toward case research at my institution (or, in my judgment, any other institution). The battle is one that committed case researchers/writers have to fight in whatever institutional setting they find themselves.

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01.11.2002 00:14:43

Why bother.

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01.11.2002 00:33:04

j.jackson@cqu.edu.au

Proof of academic standing , and standing with top business people.

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01.11.2002 02:43:10

Send information of publication opportunities and calls for writing cases

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01.11.2002 02:55:31

akoshy@iimahd.ernet.in

By organising case writing workshops,help in getting funds to attend case workshops and Seminars,

circulating case studies and their teaching notes, suggesting appropriate forum to dissiminate case studies and

encouraging cross-country case writing projects (like help in networking and suggesting funding sources)

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01.11.2002 07:49:49

We are currently in the accreditation process and my sense is that this will make change difficult. The AACSB tends to have a \"cookie-cutter\" view of the business curriculum and what should be seen in an accredited school

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01.11.2002 08:38:21

STHACH@TNSTATE.EDU

PEER REVIEW, DATA ON pUBLICATION, CIRCULATION OF CASES

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01.11.2002 09:23:39

wacra needs to change to perception that case research is not true academic research

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01.11.2002 09:38:13

I do not think you can.

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01.11.2002 10:08:09

AACSB recognition of case publication as important in professional development. Until the AASCB does this, case writing will not get any attention at my institution.

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01.11.2002 13:42:45

pbrock@pace.edu

edit a collection of authentic case studies [including one sample from me!], add framework samples for case work development & publish with a commercial, world recognized company

have users of websites report their findings/results of usage, especially successes ... good luck!

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01.11.2002 15:09:54

thickey@monroecc.edu

Start recognition of Community College programs

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02.11.2002 03:02:46

jjackson@cuhk.edu.hk

Identify quality attributes in cases (standards)

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02.11.2002 04:58:21

soroos@mindspring.com

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02.11.2002 14:48:33

convince administrators that case writing/publication is a rigorous and prestigous as refereed journal publications

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05.11.2002 13:33:13

market program

show ways that case study research is useful both for academic research as well as practice in particular fields

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05.11.2002 14:07:43

jonwalsh@uoguelph.ca

Free use of published cases.

Free access to teaching notes.

Awards for best cases.

Visit and speak on Case Writing publication.

Provide research grants.

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05.11.2002 16:24:03

janko.kralj@guest.arnes.si

Informing and inviting to conferences

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05.11.2002 17:32:00

aklein@wheelock.edu

Developing Case Writing/Teaching Standards for Promotion and Tenure

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06.11.2002 10:56:40

mshaw@uoguelph.ca

Not necessary - our school is avery heavy user of the case study pedagogy.

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08.11.2002 00:10:08

arif@

If our cases can be externally refereed, that would go a long way in establishing the credibility of case writing as a research activity.

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08.11.2002 12:50:48

Make our faculty aware of the value to faculty to develop cases

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08.11.2002 13:29:20

rkmartin@mail.fairfield.edu

Cases are used extensively at my institution. They are considered in the R&T process, but with limited understanding by some colleagues from other schools in the university who sit on the R&T Committee.

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08.11.2002 14:27:50

arielq@tesla.ispjae.edu.cu

WACRA have been promoting Case use at my Institution since 1999.

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10.11.2002 21:55:34

Provide relevant, up-to-date short cases with teaching notes.

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10.11.2002 23:37:01

We\'re there already. Too bad more institutions are not.

Thanks.

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11.11.2002 08:21:58

spence@admin.uottawa.ca

We are a bilingual institution (French-English) and pedagogical material in French with Canadian content is not always readily available. Helping French speaking faculty writing cases would enhance course content and student nad faculty satisfaction.

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11.11.2002 09:48:56

talmor@colman.ac.il

Our institution promotes lecturers based on scholarly publications only. Therefore I have stopped writing case studies and concentrate on traditional research only at least until I will receive the degree of professor. I think it is very difficult to change this attitude, as the universities in Israel sit on the committee that promotes academics in our institution and theyare research oriented.

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11.11.2002 10:18:31

pol@iastate.edu

Offerring case-writing and case-teaching seminars

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11.11.2002 10:31:19

jimib@wsu.edu

Cannot.

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11.11.2002 10:30:06

jstopford@london.edu

with great difficulty. we are the UK leader in

many things, but not case writing. Even so, we have some of the finest

case writers [eg Sumantra Ghoshal] on the faculty.

He like me has written many cases used all over the world.

We do it for pride in developing the world\'s best courses and also because it helps greatly

in our research and connection to business.

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11.11.2002 23:31:38

Come to Otago, Scool of Business, dept. of Marketing

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13.11.2002 06:29:40

scovotti@cnu.edu

I just learned of nacra and wacra while attending the case writing workshop at Harvard Business School this past weekend. Will investigate when the semester ends

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13.11.2002 17:01:32

kegoodpaster@stthomas.edu

Not sure. Hope to learn more.

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15.11.2002 17:23:16

Email Dean C.David Billings

billind@email.uah.edu

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16.11.2002 18:41:11

ktdunlop@aol.com

Workshops, etc.

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18.11.2002 17:51:42

tbatley@business.otago.ac.nz

Through publications

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19.11.2002 04:32:20

mask@asb.dk

Too many North American, Eastern European, Asian and French cases are too purely practitioner-oriented for the research-based teaching university paradigm of Northern European institutions. Cases that can be both used to analyse practitioners\' problems and the (often limited) practical applicability of theory (e.g. resource-based theory, social network theory, management theory) as well as to illustrate meta-theoretical analysis to students are sorely needed.

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20.11.2002 13:51:50

provide funding for case development so that good quality cases can be written without the mad scramble for limited if non-existent funding

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20.11.2002 16:35:25

Lman454574@aol.com

Most of our faculty are very lazy - just open a book

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26.11.2002 19:05:49

It\'s difficult to say. Only a few of us use cases for teaching or for research. Comparable data about case use and recognition at other AACSB accredited institutions might help.

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10.12.2002 14:09:34

It has to be considered acceptable research by our accrediting organization AACSB. if it is published in a journal it is research. If it is published in a book, it has less credit than an academic article. Yet, case writing for a book is just as tedious and challenging as writing a journal case analysis

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12.12.2002 17:03:06

joanna.scott-kennel@vuw.ac.nz

Case study method seminar

Links to case studies for classes (with teaching notes).

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