The points to make must include:
- Qualitative research must produce explanations that have wide resonance and are generalisable even though case studies provide a compact unit of research {Payne, 2005 }
- Case studies should be interesting
- Case studies should maximise what can be learnt from that particular case
- Acknowledgement that limited generalisation is possible or appropriate to qualitative research
- The intrinsic case study where ‘ this case is of interest… in all its particularity and ordinariness’ , ‘let the case reveal its story’
- The instrumental case study in which a case is examined mainly to provide insight into an issue or for refinement of a theory.
- The collective case study – number of cases studied in order to investigate some general phenomenon.
Mason, J. (2002). Qualitative researching. London, Sage.
Payne, G. and M. Williams (2005). "Generalization in Qualitative Research." Sociology 39(2): 295-314.
Stake, R. E. (1995) The Art of case study research, Sage. or in
Stake, R. (1994) Case studies, in Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y.S. Handbook of Qualitative Research, London, Sage
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