Ebook: Applications of case study research

You (a seasoned investigator or a budding researchers) are likely to value this book for either of (and possibly only) two reasons: (1) You already are committed to doing case studies and are seeking additional information to improve your craft, or (2) you still hate been unconvinced about doing case studies and hope that having access to specific, concrete examples will provide more information to make up your mind. To address either situation, the book presents numerous completed case studies on a broad variety of topics. To cover this breadth and to make the case studies more readable, many have been condensed or abbreviated from their original form. However, all retain their essential technical features, to demonstrate how case study research has been successfully conducted.

The book complements a companion textbook on Case Study Research: Design and Methods, first published in 1989 (the third edition also was published in 2003). The companion text provides operational guidance about case studies and cites a large number of well-known if not famous case studies that are available in journals and books. However, that text does not contain any actual case studies. In contrast, this book discusses more than a dozen case studies in one fashion or another. Furthermore, the 10 chapters of this book contain almost an entirely new set of contemporary case studies compared to those in the book's 1993 edition, with the material in only one chapter (Chapter 1) overlapping the two previous editions.