Western Casewriters Association
Welcome to the Western Casewriters Association (WCA). WCA is the Western regional association of business casewriters. Its purpose is to train, develop and support business case writing for research and pedagogical purposes. WCA organizes an annual conference for experienced and new case-writers and academics using cases for classroom teaching. Please see Call for Cases tab on the menu for this year's conference, held in association with the annual meeting of the Western Academy of Management (WAM).
Announcement
Western Casewriters Association (WCA) and the Journal of Case Research and Inquiry (JCRI) invite educators, practitioners, and students to submit consulting cases for the 2025 "Making Your Consulting Case" competition. The outstanding consulting cases will be invited for submission to a special issue of JCR with Consulting cases. For more information and important dates, click here.
The Conference
The Western Casewriters Association annual conference is a unique opportunity to engage with other case-writers in a small group format to exchange feedback and polish-up your case, learn about using cases in the classroom, get a peer-reviewed conference on your vita and enjoy the presentations from leading case authors and case educators.
It is an excellent professional development opportunity because it is a "developmental" conference designed to provide feedback from experienced case researchers in order to move the projects toward eventual publication in a top-level journal such as the Case Research Journal.
The format is round-table discussions. You will be grouped with three or four other people who have written cases and will spend time with an experienced facilitator providing feedback on each others' cases. The feedback, although rigorous, is friendly. Or, you may attend the conference just to learn more about case-research and see presentations on how to teach with cases.
Most Recent Program and Proceedings
Next Year’s Conference Date and Hotel Location:
March 2025
Kelowna, Canada
Early Submission deadline: TBD
Submission deadline: TBD
Reasons to Attend
- To improve your case. Round table discussions provide an opportunity for feedback that otherwise would be difficult to obtain.
- To hone and refine your case research, writing, and teaching skills. By participating in a serious, constructive debate over cases, discussants will gain a variety of valuable insights that will assist in the development of the case presented and cases to be written in the future.
- To obtain assistance in making your cases publishable. A high percentage of WCA cases are published in one form or another every year.
- You will meet a lot of terrific people—dedicated case researchers, writers, and teachers to whom you can turn for friendship and assistance for years to come.
Who Should Attend
Academic researchers looking for a peer-reviewed platform to develop their research stream. If accepted, this will count as a peer-reviewed conference on your vita.