Methodological Rigour in Descriptions of Case-Study Research in Polish Academic Articles on Management

The purpose of the paper is to perform a systematic review of the research methods sections of texts published in 2012-2016 in journals ascribed by their editorial boards to the discipline of management science in the field of economics and/or the humanities. Its main conclusion is that the way in which case-study research is described in these journals is inconsistent with the purported principles of methodological rigour. In Polish journals we detect a gap between the recommendations for conducting case-study research and the way it is actually presented. The present study shows that it is essential for authors to address more closely the issue of justifying the research method they are applying, along with its associated components, in the sections that describe their research methodology