Case study research : core skill sets in using 15 genres / by Arch G. Woodside, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodside, Arch G., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Case method.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 538 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Case study research : core skill sets in using fifteen genres

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2017.

Summary:

Case Study Research: Core Skills in Using 15 Genres examines the processes involved in conducting case research in a number of genres including participant observation, fuzzy set social science, system dynamics, decision systems analysis, forced metaphor elicitation technique, ethnographic decision tree modeling, mapping strategic thinking, the historical method, storytelling research and conversational analysis. The book reviews and applies the best literature on case study methods from a number of disciplines providing a strong rationale for adopting case study research methods alone or in mixed-methods. This fully revised and updated second edition employs a broad and deep coverage of multiple case study research genres to comprehensively explore the topic.

Contents:

Building theory from case study research

Bridging the chasm between survey and case study research

Storytelling theory and research

Creating visual narrative art for decoding stories

Subjective and confimatory personal introspection

Overcoming the illusion of conscious will and self-fabrication

Using the Forced Metaphor-Elicitation Technique (FMET) in subjective personal introspections about self

Surfacing executives interpretations of self and the roles of co-workers in enacting front and back stage strategies

Personal exchanges, social behavior, conversation analysis and face-to-face talk

Exchange (talk) behavior in natural settings: an exposition of variable based analysis of case study

Constructing thick descriptions of marketers' and buyers' decision processes in business-to-business exchange relationships

Case study research on means-end laddering chains

Building in degrees of freedom analysis in case study research: empirical positivistic testing of data to alernative theories

Applying the long interview in case study research

Tipping-point modeling in case study research

Participant observation research in organizational behavior

Systems thining and system dynamics modeling

Visualizing matching generalizing: case identification hypotheses and case-level data analysis

Fuzzy set social science and qualitative comparative analysis

Constructing cased-based macro models: cultures' consequences on entrepreneurship, innovation, and quality-of-life

Conclusions: principles for doing case study research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781785604607

1785604600

OCLC:

973770478