'This book is an excellent source for graduate students and researchers in various disciplines immersed in an old positivistic paradigm or a new evidence-based scientific movement. It offers precise advice regarding case study design, steps to be followed in conducting it, and a secure epistemological-methodological space in which appropriate strategies lead to solutions/answers' - Maja MiskovicThe Qualitative Report
Good, easy to follow overview
The book discusses relevant issues that students need to know about Case Study research in a concise and understandable language
Swanborn’s Case Study Research: What, Why and How? provides an exploration of case study research methods. This edition provides a number of practical examples underpinning the different stages of the research process.
Peter Swanborn's text on Case Study is a very informative and useful for students wanting to use this type of method.
Great book for more advanced students, such as those at the graduate level. For undergrads I think Yin would be a better choice.
This book gives a clear description of adopting a case study approach for research. This would be ideal for a student in their final year wishing to propose research by implementing a case study approach. Easy to read and digest. A good book.
This really helps to supplement some of the more dominating texts on case study research. Very accessible helped with positioning methodologies more clearly.
A comprehensive overview of the literature and practicalities of Case Study Research. Easily accessible format with clear guidelines and advice for students embarking on case studies.
Great book - does what it says!
This is a very good general introduction to the case study methodology. It does a good job of covering all the relevant pros and cons of case studies, and is reasonable in its discussion of the method's limitations. The book lacks specificity to my field (business studies), and that is the only reason why I would not make it mandatory reading. The author manages to say an awful lot in few words, which makes a refreshing change. For researchers wishing to understand the method, it is a worthy text.
The book does not locate case study research within a particular onotological position - it is therefore more suitable for undergraduates and those studying within a positivistic/empirical tradition. Our course includes a grounded theory approach, in which case studies are more than just a less valid type of statistical analysis. This book has therefore not been adopted.
Very good book, very help, makes a clear explanation of the ins and outs of casestudy research.
A useful text in places and well structured.
Useful, it will be between this book and the Yin book for next year. This one is better but also a bit dated.
A very useful text for those who do case studies.
A useful supplemental book for those students considering research methodologies. The text is easily understood and helpful for students at post graduate level.
This is helpful, readable guide that introduces and develops key elements of case study process and design. The examples allow readers to see how theory can be translated into a range of real life contexts. The seven chapters attempt to systematically unravel some of the complexities of this intersting methodology.
Case study research what, why and how examines the ways in which qualitative and quantitative research methods can be used within case study research. The book contains seven chapters which locate case study research methodology within a broad methodological framework. The text provides a useful bibliography which can be used as a guide to the key publications written about case study research.
Recommend reading for those adopting the Case Study approach to their research.
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