Lakshmi Balachandran Nair (Libera Universita Internazionale degli S, Michael Gibbert (Switzerland Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani (Institute for Radboud University Nijmegen

Combining Case Study Designs for Theory Building

A New Sourcebook for Rigorous Social Science Researchers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By introducing a series of archetypical and sequenced case study designs, including suitable real and fictional examples, this book provides concrete guidance to social science instructors and researchers in designing, conducting, and critically engaging with rigorous case studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781009010245
• ISBN-10: 1009010247
• Artikelnr.: 64228572

Autorenporträt

Lakshmi Balachandran Nair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Management at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. Her research interests include qualitative methodology, business ethics, and organization studies. She has published journal articles, case studies, book chapters, and a book on these topics. For her work, she has received several awards and grants including the BAM Best Full Paper Award (2018) and the ECRM Teaching Research Methods Excellence Award (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to case study research
2. Building blocks of case study research
3. Of talking pigs and black swans: single holistic case study design
4. Do it again: the evidentiary basis of case studies is plural
5. The natural experiment, aka the single embedded design
6. Do it again (and again): multiple embedded case study design
7. Sequencing case study designs: inductive-deductive
8. More on sequencing case study designs: deductive-inductive
9. A parting (optimistic) note.