The Anatomy of the Case Study

This sharp, stimulating title provides a coherent design and an applied analytical frame for understanding case study. It explores the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research setting them out to be discussed and analysed both as parts of a process and as a wider who [...]
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This sharp, stimulating title provides a coherent design and an applied analytical frame for understanding case study. It explores the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research setting them out to be discussed and analysed both as parts of a process and as a wider whole. Using detailed analysis of examples taken from across the social sciences Thomas and Myers set out, and then work through, an intricate typology of case study to answer questions such as: * How is a case study constructed? * What are the required, inherent components of case study? * Can a coherent structure be applied to this form of enquiry? The book grounds complex theoretical insights in real world research and includes an extended example that has been annotated line by line to take the reader through each step of understanding and conducting research using case study.