Limitations of the study

Limitations are topics, that arise in a study and are not in researcher’s control. The limi-tations affect to the result and the extensity of the study. Every study has limilimi-tations and future studies can doubt any conclusion of the study. The limitations are for instance the accessibility to only certain interviewed people in organizations, data or documents. The future studies have a possibility to cover these limitations. Limitations in qualitative study are related to validity and reliability. In the context of case studies, the generality of the results is always unclear. The case study studies a person, organization or group and cannot be reflected to any similar case. For the case studies, additional research is always needed to verify the findings to some other similar alternative. (Simon, M. K., &

Goes, J. (2013).

Because of the limited research access, the research suffers from number of limitations.

The number of researched companies and the data was gathered without any distinc-tions to other relevant alternatives. That is why the generalisation to public- and private sectors in Finland cannot be generalized. Also the acquirements of the interviewees to talk about all the researched topics was limited. The possibility to also interview the top-management of the chosen organizations would have extensively increased the signifi-cance of the study. However, the interviewees had a possibility to express themselves freely, without too restricted questions.

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