Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
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...Carefully formulated research question(s), informed by the existing literature and a prior appreciation of the theoretical issues and setting(s), are all important in appropriately and succinctly defining the case [8,12]....
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...They may establish, strengthen or weaken historical explanations of a case and, in certain circumstances, allow theoretical (as opposed to statistical) generalisation beyond the particular cases studied [12]....
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...…has been extensive over the past 40 years across the social sciences—see, for example, Simons (2009), Yin (2009), Mitchell (2006), Flyvbjerg (2006), George and Bennett (2005), Stake (2005), Hammersley and Gomm (2000), Bassey (1999), Ragin and Becker (1992), Merriam (1988), Eckstein (1975), and…...
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...While those from sociology, education, and psychology have tended to see the case study in an interpretivist frame, those from business, politics, and other areas may espouse the interpretivist holism of case study but address this through what George and Bennett (2005, p. 5) have called “neopositivist” means via the identification of variables to be studied—see, for example, the discussions of Luker (2008) and Yin (2009)....
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...While those from sociology, education, and psychology have tended to see the case study in an interpretivist frame, those from business, politics, and other areas may espouse the interpretivist holism of case study but address this through what George and Bennett (2005, p. 5) have called “neopositivist” means via the identification of variables to be studied—see, for example, the discussions of Luker (2008) and Yin (2009). By contrast, those in medicine and the law have tended to see the case study principally as a vehicle for exemplifying or illustrating novel or archetypal phenomena. Notwithstanding these differences, strong commonalities exist across disciplinary margins. Reviewing a number of definitions of case study, Simons (2009) concludes that what unites them is a commitment to studying the complexity that is involved in real situations and to defining case study other than by the methods of data collection that it employs....
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...While those from sociology, education, and psychology have tended to see the case study in an interpretivist frame, those from business, politics, and other areas may espouse the interpretivist holism of case study but address this through what George and Bennett (2005, p. 5) have called “neopositivist” means via the identification of variables to be studied—see, for example, the discussions of Luker (2008) and Yin (2009). By contrast, those in medicine and the law have tended to see the case study principally as a vehicle for exemplifying or illustrating novel or archetypal phenomena....
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...George (1979); George and McKeown (1985); George and Bennett (2005); Bennett (2008, 2010)....
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