Case Study Flashcards
a. Reflect on case studies and generalizability. What should the researcher consider and pay attention to?
The answer, of course, is that they cannot. It is important to appreciate that case study researchers do not delude themselves that it is possible to identify typical cases that can be used to represent a certain class of objects, whether it is factories, managers, or critical events. In other words, they do not think that a case study is a sample of one
suggest that particularization rather than generalization constitutes the main strength of case studies. The goal of case study analysis should, therefore, be to concentrate on the uniqueness of the case and to develop a deep understanding of its complexity.
case study as a research strategy for theory-testing. Business researchers usually make a choice between the survey and the case study as the main strategy in their research, particularly if an experiment is not feasible.
for testing deterministic propositions case by case and that the survey is the preferred research strategy for testing probabilistic propositions in a population
the importance of theory-testing relative to theory-building
