Multiple-Case Designs
Encyclopedia
Edited by: Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos & Elden Wiebe
Published: 2010
A case study is a methodological approach that involves the in-depth exploration of a specific bounded system, utilizing multiple forms of data collection to systemically gather information on how the system operates or functions. Robert Stake, an expert in case study ...
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Reader's Guide
- Case Study Research in Anthropology
- Case Study Research in Business and Management
- Case Study Research in Business Ethics
- Case Study Research in Education
- Case Study Research in Feminism
- Case Study Research in Medicine
- Case Study Research in Political Science
- Case Study Research in Psychology
- Case Study Research in Public Policy
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Ecological Perspectives
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Pedagogy and Case Study
- Before-and-After Case Study Design
- Blended Research Design
- Bounding the Case
- Case Selection
- Case-to-Case Synthesis
- Case Within a Case
- Comparative Case Study
- Critical Incident Case Study
- Cross-Sectional Design
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Deductive-Nomological Model of Explanation
- Deviant Case Analysis
- Discursive Frame
- Dissertation Proposal
- Ethics
- Event-Driven Research
- Exemplary Case Design
- Extended Case Method
- Extreme Cases
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Holistic Designs
- Hypothesis
- Integrating Independent Case Studies
- Juncture
- Longitudinal Research
- Mental Framework
- Mixed Methods in Case Study Research
- Most Different Systems Design
- Multimedia Case Studies
- Multiple-Case Designs
- Multi-Site Case Study
- Naturalistic Inquiry
- Natural Science Model
- Number of Cases
- Outcome-Driven Research
- Paradigmatic Cases
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Polar Types
- Problem Formulation
- Quantitative Single-Case Research Design
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Quick Start to Case Study Research
- Random Assignment
- Research Framework
- Research Objectives
- Research Proposals
- Research Questions, Types of Retrospective Case Study
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Sampling
- Socially Distributed Knowledge
- Spiral Case Study
- Statistics, Use of in Case Study
- Storyselling
- Temporal Bracketing
- Thematic Analysis
- Theory, Role of
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Utilization
- Validity
- Agency
- Alienation
- Authenticity and Bad Faith
- Author Intentionality
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Contentious Issues in Case Study Research
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Dissertation Proposal
- Ecological Perspectives
- Ideology
- Masculinity and Femininity
- Objectivism
- Othering
- Patriarchy
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Power
- Power/Knowledge
- Pragmatism
- Researcher as Research Tool
- Terroir
- Utilitarianism
- Verstehen
- Abduction
- Bayesian Inference and Boolean Logic
- Bricoleur
- Case-to-Case Synthesis
- Causal Case Study: Explanatory Theories
- Chronological Order
- Coding: Axial Coding
- Coding: Open Coding
- Coding: Selective Coding
- Cognitive Biases
- Cognitive Mapping
- Communicative Framing Analysis
- Complexity
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: ATLAS.ti
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: CAITA (Computer-Assisted Interpretive Textual Analysis)
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: Kwalitan
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: MAXQDA 2007
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: NVIVO
- Concept Mapping
- Congruence Analysis
- Constant Causal Effects Assumption
- Content Analysis
- Conversation Analysis
- Cross-Case Synthesis and Analysis
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Document Analysis
- Factor Analysis
- Fiction Analysis
- High-Quality Analysis
- Inductivism
- Interactive Methodology, Feminist
- Interpreting Results
- Iterative
- Iterative Nodes
- Knowledge Production
- Method of Agreement
- Method of Difference
- Multicollinearity
- Multidimensional Scaling
- Over-Rapport
- Pattern Matching
- Re-Analysis of Previous Data
- Regulating Group Mind
- Relational Analysis
- Replication
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Rival Explanations
- Secondary Data as Primary
- Serendipity Pattern
- Situational Analysis
- Standpoint Analysis
- Statistical Analysis
- Storyselling
- Temporal Bracketing
- Textual Analysis
- Thematic Analysis
- Use of Digital Data
- Utilization
- Webs of Significance
- Within-Case Analysis
- Action-Based Data Collection
- Analysis of Visual Data
- Anonymity and Confidentiality
- Anonymizing Data for Secondary Use
- Archival Records as Evidence
- Audiovisual Recording
- Autobiography
- Case Study Database
- Case Study Protocol
- Case Study Surveys
- Consent, Obtaining Participant
- Contextualization
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Data Resources
- Depth of Data
- Diaries and Journals
- Direct Observation as Evidence
- Discourse Analysis
- Documentation as Evidence
- Ethnostatistics
- Fiction Analysis
- Field Notes
- Field Work
- Going Native
- Informant Bias
- Institutional Ethnography
- Interviews
- Iterative Nodes
- Language and Cultural Barriers
- Multiple Sources of Evidence
- Narrative Analysis
- Narratives
- Naturalistic Context
- Nonparticipant Observation
- Objectivity
- Over-Rapport
- Participant Observation
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Personality Tests
- Problem Formulation
- Questionnaires
- Reflexivity
- Regulating Group Mind
- Reliability
- Repeated Observations
- Researcher-Participant Relationship
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Sensitizing Concepts
- Subjectivism
- Subject Rights
- Theoretical Saturation
- Triangulation
- Use of Digital Data
- Utilization
- Visual Research Methods
- Activity Theory
- Actor-Network Theory
- ANTi-History
- Autoethnography
- Base and Superstructure
- Case Study as a Methodological Approach
- Character
- Class Analysis
- Closure
- Codifying Social Practices
- Communicative Action
- Community of Practice
- Comparing the Case Study With Other Methodologies
- Consciousness Raising
- Contradiction
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Critical Sensemaking
- Dasein
- Decentering Texts
- Deconstruction
- Dialogic Inquiry
- Discourse Ethics
- Double Hermeneutic
- Dramaturgy
- Ethnographic Memoir
- Ethnography
- Ethnomethodology
- Eurocentrism
- Families
- Formative Context
- Frame Analysis
- Front Stage and Back Stage
- Gendering
- Genealogy
- Governmentality
- Grounded Theory
- Hermeneutics
- Hybridity
- Imperialism
- Institutional Theory, Old and New
- Intertextuality
- Isomorphism
- Langue and Parôle
- Layered Nature of Texts
- Life History
- Logocentrism
- Management of Impressions
- Means of Production
- Metaphor
- Modes of Production
- Multimethod Research Program
- Multiple Selfing
- Native Points of View
- Negotiated Order
- Network Analysis
- One-Dimensional Culture
- Ordinary Troubles
- Organizational Culture
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Performativity
- Phenomenology
- 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
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Chicago School
- Colonialism
- Constructivism
- Critical Realism
- Critical Theory
- Dialectical Materialism
- Epistemology
- Existentialism
- Families
- Formative Context
- Frame Analysis
- Historical Materialism
- Interpretivism
- Liberal Feminism
- Managerialism
- Modernity
- North American Case Research Association
- Ontology
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Philosophy of Science
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Postcolonialism
- Postmodernism
- Postpositivism
- Poststructuralism
- Poststructuralist Feminism
- Radical Empiricism
- Radical Feminism
- Reality
- Scientific Method
- Scientific Realism
- Socialist Feminism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Analytic Generalization
- Audience
- Authenticity
- Concatenated Theory
- Conceptual Argument
- Conceptual Model: Causal Model
- Conceptual Model: Operationalization
- Conceptual Model in a Qualitative Research Project
- Conceptual Model in a Quantitative Research Project
- Contribution, Theoretical
- Credibility
- Docile Bodies
- Equifinality
- Experience
- Explanation Building
- Extension of Theory
- Falsification
- Functionalism
- Generalizability
- Genericization
- Indeterminacy
- Indexicality
- Instrumental Case Study
- Macrolevel Social Mechanisms
- Middle-Range Theory
- Naturalistic Generalization
- Overdetermination
- Plausibility
- Probabilistic Explanation
- Process Tracing
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Reporting Case Study Research
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Statistical Generalization
- Substantive Theory
- Theory-Building With Cases
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Underdetermination
- ANTi-History
- Case Study as a Teaching Tool
- Case Study in Creativity Research
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Collective Case Study
- Configurative-Ideographic Case Study
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Diagnostic Case Study Research
- Explanatory Case Study
- Exploratory Case Study
- Inductivism
- Institutional Ethnography
- Instrumental Case Study
- Intercultural Performance
- Intrinsic Case Study
- Limited-Depth Case Study
- Multimedia Case Studies
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Pracademics
- Processual Case Research
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Program-Logic Model
- Prospective Case Study
- Real-Time Cases
- Retrospective Case Study
- Re-Use of Qualitative Data
- Single-Case Designs
- Spiral Case Study
- Storyselling
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