Case Studies

VOLUME ONE: THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF CASE STUDY Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research - Ernest Burgess The Case Study as a Research Method - Percival Symonds The Theory of Case Studies - Paul Foreman Case and Situation Analysis - J. Clyde Mitchell 'Case Study' in American Methodological Thought - Jennifer Platt Part One: Contemporary Meanings of Case Study Making the Case for Case Study - W. Robert Kenny and Adren Grotelueschen What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good For? - John Gerring What Is This a Case Of? Exploring Some Conceptual Issues in Case Study Research - Suzanne Wilson and Sigrun Gudmundsdottir Redefining Case Study - Rob VanWynsberghe and Samia Khan The Case Study Challenge: A New Approach to an Old Method - Tsilia Romm and Sophia Mahler The Harvard Business School Story: avoiding knowledge by being relevant - Ianna Contardo and Robin Wensley Part Two: The Relationship between Case Study and Other Methodologies Survey/Variable-oriented Research Integrating Case Study and Survey Research Methods: An Example in Information Systems - Guy Gable Case Survey Methodology: Quantitative Analysis of Patterns across Case Studies - Rikard Larsson Triangulation between Case Study and Survey Methods in Management Accounting Research: An Assessment of Validity Implications - Sven Modell Turning the Tables: How Case-oriented Research Challenges Variable-oriented Research - Charles Ragin Part Three: Other Methodologies The Harvard Business School Story: avoiding knowledge by being relevant - Donna Baines and Ian Cunningham The Extended Case Method - Michael Burawoy Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educational Inequalities - Peter Foster, Roger Gomm and Martyn Hammersley Case Studies as Natural Experiments - Allen Lee Case Studies and Generalizability: Grounded Theory and Research in Science Education - Keith Taber VOLUME TWO: CASE STUDY DESIGN Part Four: Overall Design 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 and Paul Ainsworth A Case in Case Study Methodology - Christine Benedichte Meyer Identification of Ambiguity in the Case Study Research Typology: What Is a Unit of Analysis? - Niels Grunbaum Part Five: Types of Case Study Case Study Principles for Different Types of Case - J. Barton Cunningham Types of Case Study Work: A Conceptual Framework for Case-based Research - David Edwards Case Studies: Types, Designs and Logics of Inference - Jack Levy A Typology for the Case Study in Social Science Following a Review of Definition, Discourse and Structure - Gary Thomas Part Six: Sampling/Selection Process Sampling: A Method for Case Study Research on Administrative Behavior - Charles McClintock Approaches to Sampling and Case Selection in Qualitative Research: Examples in the Geography of Health - Sarah Curtis et al. Site Selection within Comparative Case Study and Ethnographic Research - Geoffrey Walford Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu of Qualitative and Quantitative Options - Jason Seawright and John Gerring Part Seven: Particular Kinds of Case Study Using Stake's Qualitative Case Study Approach to Explore Implementation of Evidence-based Practice - Sheryl Boblin et al. Single-Outcome Studies: A Methodological Primer - John Gerring The Comparative Case Study Approach in Public Administration - Robert Agranoff and Beryl Radin Pedagogic Research into Singularities - Michael Bassey The Case-Study Model: An Organizational Strategy for Cross-Cultural Evaluation - Gila Garaway The 'Too Few Cases/Too Many Variables' Problem in Implementation Research - Malcolm Goggin VOLUME THREE: ISSUES WITH CASE STUDY Part Eight: Overviews The Case Study Crisis: Some Answers - Robert Yin Case Study as a Research Strategy: Some Ambiguities and Opportunities - Piet Verschuren Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research - Bent Flyvbjerg Part Nine: Generalisation A Research Design for Generalizing from Multiple Case Studies - David Greene and Jane David On Generalising from Single Case Studies: Epistemological Reflections - Colin Evers and Echo Wu The Case: Generalization, Theory and Phronesis in Case Study - Gary Thomas A Case Study of a Case Study: Strategies of Generalization and Specification in the Study of Israel as a Single Case - Lars Mjoset Drawing Lessons from Case Studies by Enhancing Comparability - Attilia Ruzzene Part Ten: Validity, Reliability, etc What Passes as a Rigorous Case Study? - Michael Gibbert, Winfried Ruigrok and Barbara Wicki Are Case Studies More Than Sophisticated Storytelling? Methodological Problems of Qualitative Empirical Research Mainly Based on Semi-Structured Interviews - Thomas Diefenbach Validity and Generalization in Future Case Study Evaluations - Robert Yin Part Eleven: Other Issues Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Analysis - James Mahoney Cumulating the Intellectual Gold of Case Study Research - Jason Jensen and Robert Rodgers Epistemology as Ethics in Research and Policy: The Use of Case Studies - John Elliott and Dominik Lukes Part Twelve: Case Study and Theory Building Theories from Case Study Research - Kathleen Eisenhardt Eisenhardt's Impact on Theory in Case Study Research - Katherine Ravenswood The Normative Case Study - David Thacher Doing Case Study: Abduction Not Induction, Phronesis Not Theory - Gary Thomas Troubling Theory in Case Study Research - Martyn Hammersley Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Case Studies: An Approach to Theory Building - Christina Hoon VOLUME FOUR: THE USE OF CASE STUDIES IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES Part Thirteen: Accounting Case Study Research in Accounting - David Cooper and Wayne Morgan Part Fourteen: Development Value Chains, Partnerships and Development: Using Case Studies to Refine Programme Theories - Sietze Vellema et al. Part Fifteen: Education Case Study in Comparative Education: Particularity and Generalization - Lawrence Stenhouse A Case Study of a Case Study: Analysis of a Robust Qualitative Research Methodology - Catherine Snyder Part sixteen: Health The Case Study as a Scientific Method for Researching Alternative Therapies - D. Lukoff, D. Edwards and M. Miller Part seventeen: Industrial Marketing Management What Makes a Good Case Study? A Positivist Review of Qualitative Case Research Published in Industrial Marketing Management, 1971-2006 - Michael Beverland and Adam Lindgreen Part Eighteen: Information Systems Case Study Research: A Multi-Faceted Research Approach for IS - A.L.M. Cavaye Rigor in Information Systems Positive Case Research: Current Practices, Trends and Recommendations - Line Dube and Guy Pare Part Nineteen: International Business The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention: Evidence from International Business Journals - Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welch and Erikka Paavilainen Part Twenty: Law Evaluation Case Histories as a Parallel to Legal Case Histories: Accumulating Knowledge and Experience in the Evaluation Profession - Darrel Caulley and Irene Dowdy Part Twenty-One: Operations Management Case Research in Operations Management - Chris Voss, Nikos Tsikriktsis and Mark Frohlich Part Twenty-Two: Psychoanalysis The Psychoanalytic Case Study: A Method for Systematic Inquiry - Enrico Jones and Michael Windholz Part Twenty-Three: Public Administration The Single Case Study as Intellectually Ambitious Inquiry - Michael Barzelay The Case Study Method for Research in Small and Medium-Sized Firms - Sylvie Chetty Part Twenty-Four: Social Work How to Critically Evaluate Case Studies in Social Work - Eunjung Lee, Faye Mishna and Sarah Brennenstuhl