Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice

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Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice

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Malcolm Tight
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Series: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods
- Publication year: 2014
- Online pub date: June 10, 2015
Discipline: Case Study & Narrative Analysis, Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473915480
Online ISBN: 9781473915480

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Case surveys bridge the gap between nomethic surveys and idiographic case studies to combine their respective benefits of generalizable, cross-sectional analysis and in-depth, processual analysis. Methodological fragmentation has limited systematic utilization of numerous managerially relevant case studies. This article develops a comprehensive procedure synthesizing the individual strengths of previous efforts and illustrates this method in a case survey of mergers and acquisitions. The empirical application is used to generate directions for future methodological development.

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‘Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice’, IanMacpherson, RossBrooker and PaulAinsworthInternational Journal of Social Research Methodology, 3(1) (2000): 49–61. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd,

Chronology of Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice

Volume I: Case Study Contexts
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- Origins and History
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  - 1. Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research
    
    Ernest Burgess
    1927
    Sociology and Social Research
  - 2. The Case Study as a Research Method
    
    Percival Symonds
    1945
    Review of Educational Research
  - 3. The Theory of Case Studies
    
    Paul Foreman
    1948
    Social Forces
  - 4. Case and Situation Analysis
    
    J. Mitchell
    1983
    Sociological Review
  - 5. “Case Study” in American Methodological Thought
    
    Jennifer Platt
    1992
    Current Sociology
- Contemporary Meanings of Case Study
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  - 6. Making the Case for Case Study
    
    W. Kenny | Arden Grotelueschen
    1984
    Grotelueschen Journal of Curriculum Studies
  - 7. What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for?
    
    John Gerring
    2004
    American Political Science Review
  - 8. What Is This a Case of? Exploring Some Conceptual Issues in Case Study Research
    
    Suzanne Wilson | Sigrun Gudmundsdottir
    1987
    Education and Urban Society
  - 9. Redefining Case Study
    
    Rob VanWynsberghe | Samia Khan
    2007
    International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  - 10. The Case Study Challenge – A New Approach to an Old Method
    
    Tsilia Romm | Sophia Mahler
    1991
    Management Education and Development (now known as Management Learning)
  - 11. The Harvard Business School Story: Avoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant
    
    Ianna Contardo | Robin Wensley
    2004
    Organization
- The Relationship Between Case Study and Other Methodologies
Volume II: Case Study Design
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- Overall Design
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  - 21. Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice
    
    Ian Macpherson | Ross Brooker | Paul Ainsworth
    2000
    International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  - 22. A Case in Case Study Methodology
    
    Christine Meyer
    2001
    Field Methods
  - 23. Identification of Ambiguity in the Case Study Research Typology: What Is a Unit of Analysis?
    
    Niels Grünbaum
    2007
    Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal
- Types of Case Study
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  - 24. Case Study Principles for Different Types of Cases
    
    J. Cunningham
    1997
    Cunningham Quality & Quantity
  - 25. Types of Case Study Work: A Conceptual Framework for Case-Based Research
    
    David Edwards
    1998
    Journal of Humanistic Psychology
  - 26. Case Studies: Types, Designs, and Logics of Inference
    
    Jack Levy
    2008
    Conflict Management and Peace Science
  - 27. A Typology for the Case Study in Social Science Following a Review of Definition, Discourse, and Structure
    
    Gary Thomas
    2011
    Qualitative Inquiry
- Sampling/Selection
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  - 28. Process Sampling: A Method for Case Study Research on Administrative Behavior
    
    Charles McClintock
    1985
    Educational Administration Quarterly
  - 29. Approaches to Sampling and Case Selection in Qualitative Research: Examples in the Geography of Health
    
    Sarah Curtis | Wil Gesler | Glenn Smith | Sarah Washburn
    2000
    Social Science & Medicine
  - 30. Site Selection within Comparative Case Study and Ethnographic Research
    
    Geoffrey Walford
    2001
    Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
  - 31. Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu of Qualitative and Quantitative Options
    
    Jason Seawright | John Gerring
    2008
    Political Research Quarterly
- Particular Kinds of Case Study
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  - 32. Using Stake's Qualitative Case Study Approach to Explore Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice
    
    Sheryl Boblin | Sandra Ireland | Helen Kirkpatrick | Kim Robertson
    2013
    Qualitative Health Research
  - 33. Single-Outcome Studies: A Methodological Primer
    
    John Gerring
    2006
    International Sociology
  - 34. The Comparative Case Study Approach in Public Administration
    
    Robert Agranoff | Beryl Radin
    1991
    Research in Public Administration
  - 35. Pedagogic Research into Singularities: Case-Studies, Probes and Curriculum Innovations
    
    Michael Bassey
    1983
    Oxford Review of Education
  - 36. The Case-Study Model: An Organizational Strategy for Cross-Cultural Evaluation
    
    Gila Garaway
    1996
    Evaluation
  - 37. The “Too Few Cases/Too Many Variables” Problem in Implementation Research
    
    Malcolm Goggin
    1986
    The Western Political Quarterly (now known as Political Research Quarterly)
Volume III: Issues with Case Study
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- Overviews
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  - 38. The Case Study Crisis: Some Answers
    
    Robert Yin
    1981
    Administrative Science Quarterly
  - 39. Case Study as a Research Strategy: Some Ambiguities and Opportunities
    
    Piet Verschuren
    2003
    International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  - 40. Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
    
    Bent Flyvbjerg
    2006
    Qualitative Inquiry
- Generalisation
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  - 41. A Research Design for Generalizing from Multiple Case Studies
    
    David Greene | Jane David
    1984
    Evaluation and Program Planning
  - 42. On Generalising from Single Case Studies: Epistemological Reflections
    
    Colin Evers | Echo Wu
    2006
    Journal of Philosophy of Education
  - 43. The Case: Generalisation, Theory and Phronesis in Case Study
    
    Gary Thomas
    2011
    Oxford Review of Education
  - 44. A Case Study of a Case Study: Strategies of Generalization and Specification in the Study of Israel as a Single Case
    
    Lars Mjóset
    2006
    International Sociology
  - 45. Drawing Lessons from Case Studies by Enhancing Comparability
    
    Attilia Ruzzene
    2012
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Validity, Reliability, Etc.
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  - 46. What Passes as a Rigorous Case Study?
    
    Michael Gibbert | Winfried Ruigrok | Barbara Wicki
    2008
    Strategic Management Journal
  - 47. Are Case Studies More Than Sophisticated Storytelling? Methodological Problems of Qualitative Empirical Research Mainly Based on Semi-Structured Interviews
    
    Thomas Diefenbach
    2009
    Quality & Quantity
  - 48. Validity and Generalization in Future Case Study Evaluations
    
    Robert Yin
    2013
    Evaluation
- Other Issues
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  - 49. Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Analysis
    
    James Mahoney
    2000
    Sociological Methods & Research
  - 50. Cumulating the Intellectual Gold of Case Study Research
    
    Jason L. | Robert Rodgers
    2001
    Public Administration Review
  - 51. Epistemology as Ethics in Research and Policy: The Use of Case Studies
    
    John Elliott | Dominik Lukeš
    2008
    Journal of Philosophy of Education
- Case Study and Theory
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  - 52. Building Theories from Case Study Research
    
    Kathleen Eisenhardt
    1989
    Academy of Management Review
  - 53. Eisenhardt's Impact on Theory in Case Study Research
    
    Katherine Ravenswood
    2011
    Journal of Business Research
  - 54. The Normative Case Study
    
    David Thacher
    2006
    American Journal of Sociology
  - 55. Doing Case Study: Abduction Not Induction, Phronesis Not Theory
    
    Gary Thomas
    2010
    Qualitative Inquiry
  - 56. Troubling Theory in Case Study Research
    
    Martyn Hammersley
    2012
    Higher Education Research & Development
  - 57. Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Case Studies: An Approach to Theory Building
    
    Christina Hoon
    2013
    Organizational Research Methods
Volume IV: The Use of Case Studies in Different Disciplines
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- Accounting
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  - 58. Case Study Research in Accounting
    
    David Cooper | Wayne Morgan
    2008
    Accounting Horizons
  - 59. Value Chains, Partnerships and Development: Using Case Studies to Refine Programme Theories
    
    Sietze Vellema | Giel Ton | Nina de Roo | Jeroen van Wijk
    2013
    Evaluation
- Education
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  - 60. Case Study in Comparative Education: Particularity and Generalisation
    
    Lawrence Stenhouse
    1979
    Comparative Education
  - 61. A Case Study of a Case Study: Analysis of a Robust Qualitative Research Methodology
    
    Catherine Snyder
    2012
    The Qualitative Report
- Health
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  - 62. The Case Study as a Scientific Method for Researching Alternative Therapies
    
    David Lukoff | David Edwards | Martha Miller
    1998
    Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
- Industrial Marketing Management
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  - 63. What Makes a Good Case Study? A Positivist Review of Qualitative Case Research Published in Industrial Marketing Management, 1971–2006
    
    Michael Beverland | Adam Lindgreen
    2010
    Industrial Marketing Management
- Information Systems
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  - 64. Case Study Research: A Multi-Faceted Research Approach for IS
    
    A.L.M. Cavaye
    1996
    Information Systems Journal
  - 65. Rigor in Information Systems Positivist Case Research: Current Practices, Trends, and Recommendations
    
    Line Dubé | Guy Paré
    2003
    MIS Quarterly
- International Business
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  - 66. The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention: Evidence from International Business Journals
    
    Rebecca Piekkari | Catherine Welch | Eriikka Paavilainen
    2009
    Organizational Research Methods
- Law
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  - 67. Evaluation Case Histories as a Parallel to Legal Case Histories: Accumulating Knowledge and Experience in the Evaluation Profession
    
    Darrel Caulley | Irene Dowdy
    1987
    Evaluation and Program Planning
- Operations Management
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  - 68. Case Research in Operations Management
    
    Chris Voss | Nikos Tsikriktsis | Mark Frohlich
    2002
    International Journal of Operations & Production Management
- Psychoanalysis
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  - 69. The Psychoanalytic Case Study: Toward a Method for Systematic Inquiry
    
    Enrico Jones | Michael Windholz
    1990
    Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Public Administration
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  - 70. The Single Case Study as Intellectually Ambitious Inquiry
    
    Michael Barzelay
    1993
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J-PART
  - 71. The Case Study Method for Research in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms
    
    Sylvie Chetty
    1996
    International Small Business Journal
- Social Work
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  - 72. How to Critically Evaluate Case Studies in Social Work
    
    Eunjung Lee | Faye Mishna | Sarah Brennenstuhl
    2010
    Research on Social Work Practice

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Case Study in the Contemporary World of Research: Using Notions of Purpose, Place, Process and Product to Develop Some Principles for Practice

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Table of Contents

Volume I: Case Study Contexts

Origins and History

Contemporary Meanings of Case Study

Volume II: Case Study Design

Overall Design

Types of Case Study

Sampling/Selection

Particular Kinds of Case Study

Volume III: Issues with Case Study

Overviews

Generalisation

Validity, Reliability, Etc.

Other Issues

Case Study and Theory

Volume IV: The Use of Case Studies in Different Disciplines

Accounting

Education

Health

Industrial Marketing Management

Information Systems

International Business

Law

Operations Management

Psychoanalysis

Public Administration

Social Work

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Key Reading

All Readings

Entry

Table of Contents

Volume I: Case Study Contexts

Origins and History

Contemporary Meanings of Case Study

Volume II: Case Study Design

Overall Design

Types of Case Study

Sampling/Selection

Particular Kinds of Case Study

Volume III: Issues with Case Study

Overviews

Generalisation

Validity, Reliability, Etc.

Other Issues

Case Study and Theory

Volume IV: The Use of Case Studies in Different Disciplines

Accounting

Education

Health

Industrial Marketing Management

Information Systems

International Business

Law

Operations Management

Psychoanalysis

Public Administration

Social Work

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