Case Study Reseach method

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Case Study Reseach method

• What is case study research method
• Empirical inquiry that
• Investigates a contemporary phenomenon within
  its real-life context
• Boundaries between phenomenon and context are
  not clearly evident
• Type of questions
• A how or why question being asked about a
  contemporary set of events over which the
  investigator has little or no control

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Case Study Reseach method

• Case study inquiry
• Copes with different situation, variables
• Multiples sources of evidence
• Benefits from the previous theoretical
  prepositions to guide data collection and
  analysis process

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Case Study Reseach method

• Components of research design
• Studys questions
• Theory (prepositions) if any
• Unit of analysis
• Logic linking the data to the propositions
• Criteria for interpreting the findings

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Case Study Reseach method

• Relevant situations for different research
  strategies
• Experiment
• Survey
• Archival analysis
• History
• Case study
• (see table)

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Case Study Reseach method

• Types of case studies
• Nature of the case
• Intrinsic unique and extraordinary
• Instrumental developing theories and insights
• Collective more than one instrumental case
• Theoretical aims
• descriptive requires a theory to guide data
  collection

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Case Study Reseach method

• Casual search for casual and explanatory
  theories
• Explanatory data collected before theory
• Number of case
• single
• multiple

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Case Study Reseach method

• Units
• embedded more than one sub-unit
• holistic global

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Case Study Reseach method

• Case Study Research Design Methods, Robert K.
  Yin, Applied Social Research Methods Series,
  Volume 5. NY, London Sage Publications, Inc.,
  1994.
• Designing case studies different types of case
  studies criteria for quality of research designs
• Preparing for data collection research skills
  training preparation case study protocol
  pilot case study
• Collecting evidence sources principles
• Analyzing case study evidence modes of analysis
  pressing for high quality analysis
• Composing the case study report audiences
  varieties procedures what makes an exemplary
  case study?

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Case Study Reseach method

• What makes an exemplary case study?
• Significance of the case study
• A single case can have significance
• Completeness
• Well defined boundaries of the case
• Critical evidence has been given complete
  attention
• Consideration of alternative perspectives
• Perspectives of all major actors
• Sufficient evidence presented in case study
  analysis
• Reader can reach an independent judgment of its
  merits
• Engaging write-up
• Enthusiasm for meaning of findings results