The Case Study as a Research Method

Symonds, Percival M.; Ellis, Albert

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“…Moreover, the understanding afforded by responses to survey items can be extremely "thin" with regard to nuanced cultural analysis (Geertz, 1973) and would likely have remained inadequate. In essence, this study was principally situated in the context of discovery rather than the context of justification (Symonds & Ellis, 1945), and so merited adoption of an interpretive methodology.…”

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“…1 Moreover, the case study is said to increase scientific understanding of an individual or group because it affords opportunities for "triangulation" (or the integration of multiple strands of evidence) in drawing psychological inferences (Stake, 2005). Even so, the results of case study research have usually been accorded preliminary or complementary standing in the context of discovery rather than the full or final word on a subject in the context of justification (Symonds & Ellis, 1945). Certainly, in the disciplinary pursuit of reliable causal attribution, case study approaches cannot meaningfully control for most of the classic threats to internal validity.…”

Section: The Status Of the Case Study In Psychological Inquirymentioning

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The Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method: Exploring ambitious achievement in an American Indian community.

Gone¹,

Alcántara²

2010

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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This article demonstrates the empirical viability of the Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method (ECCSM) for investigating interrelationships between cultural and psychological processes. By juxtaposing two relevant forms of data--original interview material from a single respondent and existing ethnographic evidence--the inherent idiographic limitations of the case study approach for pursuing the psychological study of culture might be transcended. Adoption of the ECCSM for the exploration of cultural ideals among an elderly Native American respondent revealed both the personal and cultural significance of ambitious achievement within this tribal community, calling into question the conventional wisdom within multicultural psychology that Native Americans are culturally disposed to passive, submissive and noncompetitive psychological orientations. This application of the proposed methodology demonstrates how important empirical insights may be obtained in unusually efficient and nuanced ways at the confluence of culture and psychology.

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Section: The Status Of the Case Study In Psychological Inquirymentioning

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The Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method: Exploring ambitious achievement in an American Indian community.

Gone¹,

Alcántara²

2010

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…Case study research involves a combination of several data collection methods (Symonds and Ellis, 1945;Small, 2011). Owing to the different national level data collection methodologies, data from national level databases was not considered suitable for transnational comparison.…”

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Role of institutions in public management: developing case studies for divergent policy systems

Singh

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Public policy management has an intractable nature, and the institutional complexity of governance further exacerbates its practice. Transnational learning cutting across countries and policy areas can contribute to this policy knowledge in dealing with multifarious issues in public management. Understanding the institutional mix in public management in various contexts enhances the existing comprehension of how the national pattern of public management works differently in different socio-economic, cultural, and political settings. The present research aims to study the institutional framework in the form of state structure (unitary or federal) and the nature of executive government (majoritarian or consensual) in delineating the influence of institutions on public management processes in divergent policy systems. The paper undertakes four in-depth country case studies and the public management reforms as a response to institutional pressure are examined using the 4 M strategy–Maintain (holding on to existing administrative structures and processes), Modernize (keeping service delivery and regulation up to date), Marketize (efficiency and user-responsive public management), and Minimize (reducing state-led regulation). The case studies highlight the differences in the broad direction and energy of implementation that characterize a particular policy style. The results of the study indicate that even though the institutional dimensions are not present in strict polarization, the impact of the institutional mix is evident in the dominant strategies of public management reforms adopted at the national level.

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“…This new method is described here for the first time. The NACM is inspired by the case method that has routinely been applied in the Harvard Business School since the beginning of the twentieth century 2,3. The NACM provides a toolbox for research and teaching, and is tailored for the needs of and prerequisites provided by tribology students and researchers of our modern times, with knowledge at our fingertips and the Internet and cloud storage available for universal access.…”

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New Asian Case Method for tribology: a structured approach for increased problem solving competence in tribology teaching and research

Gebeshuber

Macqueen²

2013

Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces

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The gap between academic science/engineering and industry concerning problem solving competencies is addressed in this paper by proposing the New Asian Case Method, an approach inspired by, but substantially different from, the trademark of professional education of the Harvard Business School. The paper puts forward the idea that knowledge in tribology shall be arranged in cases with practical examples that allow students and researchers to learn tribology on real world problems, and obtain a toolbox they subsequently use in their work as tribologists in academia or industry. Micro-and nanotribology are accentuated as high potential role model fields for successful interdisciplinary, inherently application oriented approaches. The New Asian Case Method increases quality approaches in tribology, by structuring the ways of thinking and addressing problems. Establishing the New Asian Case Method in tribology shall set the basis for an international standard in the field.

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The Case Study as a Research Method

Cited by 4 publications

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The Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method: Exploring ambitious achievement in an American Indian community.

The Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method: Exploring ambitious achievement in an American Indian community.

Role of institutions in public management: developing case studies for divergent policy systems

New Asian Case Method for tribology: a structured approach for increased problem solving competence in tribology teaching and research

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