Knowledge advances with the comparative method across cases, time, and models. for several studies in this special forum, the authors examine not just one process story, but several, allowing theoretical ideas to be tested and deepened in different settings. for example, in their quantitative study, Klarner and Raisch (2013) obtain their data from annual corporate reports of 67 European insurance companies between 1995 and 2014. They code these data into six differant temporal patterns of change using an innovative multiply sequence alignment method derived from the biological and then show how regularity in ongoing organizational changes is associated with performance using statistical methods.