The case study approach allows in-depth, multi-faceted explorations of complex issues in their real-life settings. The value of the case study approach is well recognised in the fields of business, law and policy, but somewhat less so in health services research. Based on our experiences of conducting several health-related case studies, we reflect on the different types of case study design, the specific research questions this approach can help answer, the data sources that tend to be used, and the particular advantages and disadvantages of employing this methodological approach. The paper concludes with key pointers to aid those designing and appraising proposals for conducting case study research, and a checklist to help readers assess the quality of case study reports.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186%2F1471-2288-11-100.pdf

The case study approach

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity central to organizing, sensemaking has been the subject of considerable research which has intensified over the last decade. We begin this review with a historical overview of the field, and develop a definition of sensemaking rooted in recurrent themes from the literature. We then review and integrate existing theory and research, focusing on two key bodies of work. The first explores how sensemaking is accomplished, unpacking the sensemaking process by examining how events become triggers for sensemaking, how intersubjective meaning is created, and the role of action in sensemaking. The second body considers how sensemaking enables the accomplishment of other key organizational processes, such organizational change, learning, and creativity and innovation. The final part of the chapter draws on areas of difference and debate h...

Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

This article presents culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting. Providing a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms, I investigate the often suggested but heretofore empiricall...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0003122412463213

Hiring as cultural matching: The case of elite professional service firms

Balancing priorities: Decision-making in sustainable supply chain management

Tesis de investigacion presentada como requisito para optar al titulo de: Magister en Administracion MSc. -- Linea de Investigacion: Gestion del Conocimiento y Capacidades Dinamicas.

La gestión del conocimiento y su influencia en las capacidades dinámicas: Contrastación empírica en Empresas Colombianas Intensivas en uso de conocimiento

Recenzja książki. Robert K. yin, Case Study Research. Design and Methods (fourth Edition), thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009

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Problemy badań terenowych – wybrane kwestie metodologiczne, praktyczne oraz etyczne przy badaniu zjawisk „trudnych”

Badacz zjawisk trudno dostępnych w terenie – kwestie etyczne, praktyczne i metodologiczne

The local media market in Poland developed in very particular social conditions, conditions which Nowak 1979, 1981 described as a “social void”. As a result, it might be presumed that it was more likely that the new forms of society including local media were formed on the basis of the “bonding” type of social capital rather than the “bridging” type. Th is might be one of the reasons why tight and complex relationships between the local media and other social actors still exist. On the basis of my own qualitative research case studies conducted in four small towns in Poland, this article shows how complex the local relations are and describes the involvement of local journalists and local media owners in these networks of relations which might often be a cause of conflicts of interest individual or institutional or media bias.

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Forms of local media relations in local communities — case studies

Celem opracowania jest opis strategii badawczych podejmowanych przez badaczki i badaczy z obszaru nauk społecznych i humanistycznych w czasie pierwszej fali pandemii COVID-19. Badania empiryczne będące podstawą artykułu realizowane były w kwietniu i maju 2020 roku przy użyciu techniki ankiety jakościowej online. W wyniku jakościowej analizy treści wypowiedzi uczestników i uczestniczek naszych badań scharakteryzowałyśmy cztery strategie badawcze: rezygnację, zawieszenie, kontynuację i (re)konstrukcję badań. Wyniki analiz opisujemy w odniesieniu do cech charakterystycznych nurtu disaster research. Pokazujemy, że badania w pandemii są bliższe perspektywie slow disaster research niż disaster research.

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Sylwia Męcfal

Papers

Recenzja książki. Robert K. yin, Case Study Research. Design and Methods (fourth Edition), thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009

Problemy badań terenowych – wybrane kwestie metodologiczne, praktyczne oraz etyczne przy badaniu zjawisk „trudnych”

Badacz zjawisk trudno dostępnych w terenie – kwestie etyczne, praktyczne i metodologiczne

Forms of local media relations in local communities — case studies

Czy badać? Co badać? Jak badać? Strategie badawcze w naukach społecznych i humanistycznych w pierwszej fali pandemii COVID-19