The case study method for studying family businesses

Abstract

The aim of this paper is support the use of case study method to study the specific reality of family businesses, beyond what the researches shows with a quantitative approach. The analysis performed on a set of investigations that have applied the case study, permitted to propose the question of why it is a method that seeks to generate significant theories, through answering questions of how and why there are certain events or phenomena, these investigations not provide the elements to support its validity?