Combining Case Study Designs for Theory Building: A New Sourcebook for Rigorous Social Science Researchers

ISBN-13: 9781009010245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Switzer Bareerah Hafeez (Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Opis

A useful guide for instructors and researchers interested in designing, conducting, and critically engaging with rigorous case studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to case study research; 2. Building blocks of case study research; 3. Of talking pigs and black swans: single holistic case study design; 4. Do it again: the evidentiary basis of case studies is plural; 5. The natural experiment, aka the single embedded design; 6. Do it again (and again): multiple embedded case study design; 7. Sequencing case study designs: inductive-deductive; 8. More on sequencing case study designs: deductive-inductive; 9. A parting (optimistic) note.