obtain
their data from annual corporate reports of
67 European insurance companies between 1995
and 2004. They code these data into six different
temporal patterns of change using an innovative
multiple sequence alignment method derived
from the biological sciences and then show how
regularity in ongoing organizational changes is
associated with performance using statistical
methods. Although Klarner and Raisch had a
large enough sample of cases to use statistical
methods of comparison, various forms of analytical
replication can also be embedded in qualitative
research designs and analyses.