In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the C-suite, into agile teams. But agile is not suitable for all circumstances, particularly in carrying out the many key operations and…
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Methodological fit is an implicitly valued attribute of high-quality field research in organizations that receives little explicit attention in the management literature. Fit refers to internal consistency among elements of a research project - research question, prior work, research design, and theoretical contribution. We introduce a contingency framework that relates prior work - the state o…