Table 1.

Research protocol

Research protocolDetails description
Research various databasesScopus Database and Web of Science
Publication typePeer-review journals
LanguageEnglish
Date rangeTodo o período (sem filtro temporal)
Search fieldsTitle, abstract, and keywords
Search terms (Scopus)(TITLE-ABS-KEY (“case stud*”) AND ALL (“construct validity”) OR ALL (“internal validity”) OR ALL (“external validity”)) OR ALL (“validity and reliability”)) OR ALL (“reliability and validity”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “ar”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA, “BUSI”)) The authors arranged the articles in a spreadsheet, eliminating repeated records
Search terms (Web of Science)"case stud*” (Topic) and “construct validity” (All Fields) or “internal validity” (All Fields) or “external validity” (All Fields) or “validity and reliability” (All Fields) or “reliability and validity” (All Fields) and Article (Document Types) and English (Languages) and Article (Document Types) and Management or Public Environmental Occupational Health or Business or Business Finance or Public Administration (Web of Science Categories)
Inclusion criteriaOnly empirical theoretical studies with case studies as the qualitative research method; studies published in English; articles with case study methods that fell within positivism; articles whose authors acknowledged the use of at least one of the validity or reliability tests were sought; and mixed studies, in which one method was a qualitative case study
Exclusion criteriaEmpirical theoretical articles that did not use case studies as a qualitative research method, such as RSL, quantitative studies, theoretical essays, etc; studies not published in English; articles without database access; articles from proceedings and grey literature; articles that did not acknowledge the use of at least one of the validity or reliability tests; and purely quantitative case studies
Source(s): Authors’ own work

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