TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swanborn, Peter G
AU  - Swanborn,Peter G
TI  - Case Studey Research:  What, Why and How?
U1  - M03 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
N1  - 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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