Benoit's top bestselling cases
Browse Benoit's top three bestselling cases during the last year.
Browse Benoit's top three bestselling cases during the last year.
“Management research and education are at an interesting crossroad: with a world becoming more and more unpredictable, recipes derived from historical datasets and large cross-sections are becoming less and less relevant, a fact compounded by the slow refereeing process in general. As an educator, it becomes more and more difficult to stand in front of a digital-native audience and argue that many ‘classic’ papers have much value left in them.
“So how do you figure out today’s and tomorrow’s issues, not yesterday’s? Case research offers that perspective, flushing out issues as they emerge. My primary driver in case research has always been to stay relevant in the classroom and bring ‘issues’ to discuss, not necessarily ‘answers’.
“Learning to live with ambiguities, dilemmas and fast-changing environments is what students need today. In that sense, case research becomes ever more relevant: we simply don’t have the leisure to wait for publications to introduce new knowledge in the classroom. On a personal level, the process is what really excites me, the intimacy developed with the case protagonists, the long-term relationships that often ensue, and the surprises every case brings…”
~ Benoit Leleux