The Paradox of Case Study

Simons, Helen

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“…Case study have been criticised for lack of rigour in terms of sampling because in qualitative case study approach sampling is not random. Other weaknesses such as flexibility in terms of data collection method, data analysis, researcher lack of social experience, lack of rigour, reliability, validity, credibility of the research findings and generalisations of a SCS has remained a controversial issues [8]. These views are misleading and this paper attempts to reduce these misconceptions and gaps in the literature.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Furthermore, generalisability relates to findings that are capable of being tested by others using the same measures and with equivalent sample [44]. The generalisability of a single case study remains one of the most debated topics in case study methodology [8,45]. However, [46] mentioned that instead of using these terms (validity, reliability and generalisability) qualitative researchers may now incorporate the use of credibility, transferability, and conformability".…”

Section: Validity Reliability and Generalisability Of Qualitative Simentioning

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Case Studies Approach in Tourism Destination Branding Research

Adeyinka-Ojo

Nair

Khoo‐Lattimore

2014

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract.A review of literature indicates that there are different types of qualitative research methods such as action research, content analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, historical analysis, phenomenology and case study. However, which approach is to be used depends on several factors such as the nature and objectives of the research. The aim of this paper is to focus on the research methodology aspects of applying case study as a research approach and its relevance in tourism destination branding research specifically on a single case study (SCS) context. There are arguments that the SCS is a weak research strategy. Some of the potentials or shortcomings highlighted in the literature include the primitive nature of SCS, flexibility of sample technique, data collection method and data analysis. Others include lack of rigour, reliability, validity, credibility of findings and generalisation. This paper has adopted content analysis of the literature on tourism destination branding. Findings indicate that the quality of SCS can be verified using specific case study tactics for four design tests such as validity (construct, internal and external); and reliability using the case study protocol. Theoretical implication suggests that SCS is an empirical enquiry use to understand complex phenomena and favoured by practitioners.

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Case Studies Approach in Tourism Destination Branding Research

Adeyinka-Ojo

Nair

Khoo‐Lattimore

2014

SHS Web of Conferences

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“…This may be analytically fair, but, in the process, opens up the possibility that case study is different by degree, rather than category. After Law and Urry, [15] as the 'social' is 'enacted', it can distract and detract from the mission of qualitative case study; as Helen Simons has noted, [16] urging researchers to attend to the reasons why case study came to prominence in the 1970's, when experimental educational research proved inadequate for evaluating complex educational innovation. In addition, case study gave participants more of a voice, it engaged "readers of the reports with the veracity of experience of the programme", and, with the data being more open, complex and multi-voiced, case study offered, ".…”

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“…Yet it is the latter, I have argued, which offer us new insight and potentially that quantum leap in understanding which may change our worlds (No Page). [16] In approaching this study, I have tried to adopt that 'alternative way of seeing', at least to allow for complexity to emerge and exist through the case narrative. Part of 'staying open' requires a 'closing off' from the lure of pursuing certainty.…”

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Information technology implementation in service enhancement: a qualitative case study

Johnson

2016

JNEP

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The article presents a qualitative case study of the complexities involved in information technology (IT) implementation through illuminating the methods used by two different nurses in the same service enhancement initiative. The importance, relevance and history of learning IT skills is introduced and qualitative case study is argued to be a suitable methodology for investigating and unlocking such social phenomena. Three interviews were conducted and the data combined into a single narrative. One of the participants is very familiar with IT yet reverts to paper for managing numerical data arising from a waiting times audit. This project is taken over by a second nurse who immediately replaces the paper method with a spreadsheet, with help from a service enhancement champion, the third individual interviewed. The circumstances and implications of the nurses' decisions, to avoid or deploy IT, are briefly discussed. The paper concludes that it is unrealistic to expect all nurses to be extremely fluent with IT. However, the decision to leverage IT for innovation and improvement in clinical settings is made easier if education has provided nurses with a firm conceptual and practical foundation.

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2004

Practice Development in Nursing

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The Paradox of Case Study

Cited by 143 publications

References 8 publications

Case Studies Approach in Tourism Destination Branding Research

Case Studies Approach in Tourism Destination Branding Research

Information technology implementation in service enhancement: a qualitative case study

Evaluating Practice Developments

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