Case Studey Research What, Why and How?
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd 2012Description: 176pDDC classification:- M03 SW243
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includes index and biblioraphy
what is a case study?..........1 Phenomena and cases...............5 Historical background ..........10 Methodological point of departure ............12 Definition ...............12 Additional remarks about the definition ...........14 An holistic approach?........18 Conclusions .........21 2. When to conduct a case study ?..............24 Research questions ...........25 Specific conditions ..........33 Further considerations .............35 3. How to Select cases ?.............45 Demarcation of the domain ...........47 No selection of the domain............47 Random selection ...........50 Pragmatic Grounds.......52 Substantive criteria ............52 The problem of Generalisation ...........66 What data to collect ?...........73 Data and theories .......73 An application of theory ....77 Causality .......88 5. How to enrich your case study data? .............97 degrees of freedom ......97 Increasing the number of measurement points in time ..........99 Introducing sub-units .......101 Increasing the number of Predictions ..........106 Using several gradations of the independent variable .......108 Diversifying researchers.........109 Presenting results to participants and using thier opinions as extra data ............110 6. How to analyse your data.........113 Five traditions .........113 analysis ............124 Limits of tabulations on Qualitative data ................130 7. Assets and opportunities ...........136 Styles of reporting .......136 Combining intensive and extensive approaches..........139 Generalising from the user`s perspective ............146 Meta-analysis .........148 The efficiency of case studies ............150
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