Explanatory Case Study
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Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, explanatory case studies not only explore and describe phenomena but can also be used to explain causal relationships and to develop theory.
Conceptual Overview and Discussion
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Reader's Guide
- Abduction
- ANTi-History
- Action-Based Data Collection
- Before-and-After Case Study Design
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Activity Theory
- Case Study Research in Anthropology
- Agency
- Analytic Generalization
- Audience
- Bayesian Inference and Boolean Logic
- Blended Research Design
- Case Study as a Teaching Tool
- Case Study Research in Business and Management
- Actor-Network Theory
- Chicago School
- Alienation
- Analysis of Visual Data
- ANTi-History
- Authenticity
- Authenticity and Bad Faith
- Bounding the Case
- Bricoleur
- Case Study in Creativity Research
- Case Study Research in Business Ethics
- Colonialism
- Anonymity and Confidentiality
- Anonymizing Data for Secondary Use
- Author Intentionality
- Autoethnography
- Case Selection
- Case Study Research in Education
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Case-to-Case Synthesis
- Concatenated Theory
- Constructivism
- Archival Records as Evidence
- Base and Superstructure
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Case Study Research in Feminism
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Case-to-Case Synthesis
- Causal Case Study: Explanatory Theories
- Conceptual Argument
- Critical Realism
- Audiovisual Recording
- Case Study as a Methodological Approach
- Case Study Research in Medicine
- Case Within a Case
- Chronological Order
- Collective Case Study
- Conceptual Model: Causal Model
- Contentious Issues in Case Study Research
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Dialectical Materialism
- Autobiography
- Case Study Research in Political Science
- Character
- Coding: Axial Coding
- Comparative Case Study
- Conceptual Model: Operationalization
- Configurative-Ideographic Case Study
- Dissertation Proposal
- Epistemology
- Case Study Database
- Case Study Research in Psychology
- Class Analysis
- Coding: Open Coding
- Conceptual Model in a Qualitative Research Project
- Critical Incident Case Study
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Diagnostic Case Study Research
- Ecological Perspectives
- Existentialism
- Case Study Protocol
- Case Study Research in Public Policy
- Closure
- Coding: Selective Coding
- Conceptual Model in a Quantitative Research Project
- Cross-Sectional Design
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Explanatory Case Study
- Families
- Ideology
- Case Study Surveys
- Codifying Social Practices
- Cognitive Biases
- Contribution, Theoretical
- Deductive-Nomological Model of Explanation
- Exploratory Case Study
- Formative Context
- Masculinity and Femininity
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Cognitive Mapping
- Communicative Action
- Consent, Obtaining Participant
- Credibility
- Deviant Case Analysis
- Docile Bodies
- Frame Analysis
- Inductivism
- Objectivism
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Communicative Framing Analysis
- Community of Practice
- Contextualization
- Discursive Frame
- Ecological Perspectives
- Equifinality
- Historical Materialism
- Institutional Ethnography
- Othering
- Comparing the Case Study With Other Methodologies
- Complexity
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Dissertation Proposal
- Experience
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Instrumental Case Study
- Interpretivism
- Patriarchy
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: ATLAS.ti
- Consciousness Raising
- Data Resources
- Ethics
- Explanation Building
- Intercultural Performance
- Liberal Feminism
- Pedagogy and Case Study
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: CAITA (Computer-Assisted Interpretive Textual Analysis)
- Contradiction
- Depth of Data
- Event-Driven Research
- Extension of Theory
- Intrinsic Case Study
- Managerialism
- Power
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: Kwalitan
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Diaries and Journals
- Exemplary Case Design
- Falsification
- Limited-Depth Case Study
- Modernity
- Power/Knowledge
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: MAXQDA 2007
- Critical Sensemaking
- Dasein
- Direct Observation as Evidence
- Extended Case Method
- Functionalism
- Multimedia Case Studies
- North American Case Research Association
- Pragmatism
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: NVIVO
- Decentering Texts
- Discourse Analysis
- Extreme Cases
- Generalizability
- Ontology
- Participatory Action Research
- Researcher as Research Tool
- Concept Mapping
- Deconstruction
- Documentation as Evidence
- Genericization
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Terroir
- Congruence Analysis
- Dialogic Inquiry
- Ethnostatistics
- Holistic Designs
- Indeterminacy
- Philosophy of Science
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Utilitarianism
- Constant Causal Effects Assumption
- Discourse Ethics
- Fiction Analysis
- Hypothesis
- Indexicality
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Pracademics
- Verstehen
- Content Analysis
- Double Hermeneutic
- Field Notes
- Instrumental Case Study
- Integrating Independent Case Studies
- Postcolonialism
- Processual Case Research
- Conversation Analysis
- Dramaturgy
- Field Work
- Juncture
- Macrolevel Social Mechanisms
- Postmodernism
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Cross-Case Synthesis and Analysis
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Ethnographic Memoir
- Going Native
- Longitudinal Research
- Middle-Range Theory
- Postpositivism
- Program-Logic Model
- Document Analysis
- Ethnography
- Informant Bias
- Mental Framework
- Naturalistic Generalization
- Poststructuralism
- Prospective Case Study
- Ethnomethodology
- Factor Analysis
- Institutional Ethnography
- Mixed Methods in Case Study Research
- Overdetermination
- Poststructuralist Feminism
- Real-Time Cases
- Eurocentrism
- Fiction Analysis
- Interviews
- Most Different Systems Design
- Plausibility
- Radical Empiricism
- Retrospective Case Study
- Families
- High-Quality Analysis
- Iterative Nodes
- Multimedia Case Studies
- Probabilistic Explanation
- Radical Feminism
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Formative Context
- Inductivism
- Language and Cultural Barriers
- Multiple-Case Designs
- Process Tracing
- Reality
- Single-Case Designs
- Frame Analysis
- Interactive Methodology, Feminist
- Multiple Sources of Evidence
- Multi-Site Case Study
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Scientific Method
- Spiral Case Study
- Front Stage and Back Stage
- Interpreting Results
- Narrative Analysis
- Naturalistic Inquiry
- Reporting Case Study Research
- Scientific Realism
- Storyselling
- Gendering
- Iterative
- Narratives
- Natural Science Model
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Socialist Feminism
- Genealogy
- Iterative Nodes
- Naturalistic Context
- Number of Cases
- Statistical Generalization
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Governmentality
- Knowledge Production
- Nonparticipant Observation
- Outcome-Driven Research
- Substantive Theory
- Grounded Theory
- Method of Agreement
- Objectivity
- Paradigmatic Cases
- Theory-Building With Cases
- Hermeneutics
- Method of Difference
- Over-Rapport
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Hybridity
- Multicollinearity
- Participant Observation
- Participatory Action Research
- Underdetermination
- Imperialism
- Multidimensional Scaling
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Institutional Theory, Old and New
- Over-Rapport
- Participatory Case Study
- Polar Types
- Intertextuality
- Pattern Matching
- Personality Tests
- Problem Formulation
- Isomorphism
- Problem Formulation
- Quantitative Single-Case Research Design
- Re-Analysis of Previous Data
- Langue and Parôle
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Questionnaires
- Regulating Group Mind
- Layered Nature of Texts
- Quick Start to Case Study Research
- Reflexivity
- Relational Analysis
- Life History
- Random Assignment
- Regulating Group Mind
- Replication
- Logocentrism
- Reliability
- Research Framework
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Management of Impressions
- Repeated Observations
- Research Objectives
- Rival Explanations
- Means of Production
- Researcher-Participant Relationship
- Research Proposals
- Secondary Data as Primary
- Metaphor
- Research Questions, Types of Retrospective Case Study
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Serendipity Pattern
- Modes of Production
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Sensitizing Concepts
- Situational Analysis
- Multimethod Research Program
- Sampling
- Standpoint Analysis
- Subjectivism
- Multiple Selfing
- Socially Distributed Knowledge
- Statistical Analysis
- Subject Rights
- Native Points of View
- Spiral Case Study
- Storyselling
- Theoretical Saturation
- Negotiated Order
- Statistics, Use of in Case Study
- Temporal Bracketing
- Triangulation
- Network Analysis
- Storyselling
- Textual Analysis
- Use of Digital Data
- One-Dimensional Culture
- Temporal Bracketing
- Thematic Analysis
- Utilization
- Ordinary Troubles
- Thematic Analysis
- Use of Digital Data
- Visual Research Methods
- Organizational Culture
- Theory, Role of
- Utilization
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Webs of Significance
- Performativity
- Utilization
- Within-Case Analysis
- Phenomenology
- Validity
- Practice-Oriented Research
- Praxis
- Primitivism
- Qualitative Analysis in Case Study
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Quantitative Single-Case Research Design
- Quick Start to Case Study Research
- Self-Confrontation Method
- Self-Presentation
- Sensemaking
- Sexuality
- Signifier and Signified
- Sign System
- Simulacrum
- Social-Interaction Theory
- Storytelling
- Structuration
- Symbolic Value
- Symbolic Violence
- Thick Description
- Writing and Difference
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