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Student Learning through Case Research and Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Graham Elkin
Graham Elkin*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, University of Otago, PO Box 56, DUNEDIN, Phone: +64 3 479 8189, Fax:, +64 3 479 8173, Email: gelkin@business.otago.ac.nz
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Abstract

The case method of teaching and learning is prominent in management education. We know little about the processes involved in writing and learning through cases. One element that may help the beginning of a theoretical understanding of these processes comes from an experiment with students entering organisations and writing cases for use with other management students. Students not only gain more knowledge related to management and organisations than in using prepared cases, but they also gain substantial additional process skills that are far more generalisable and to do with life-long learning – than those developed using traditional case learning.

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Research Article
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Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 2002, pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2002

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