 | Robert A. Rhoads, James R. Valadez - Education - 1996 - 254 pages
...offerings oriented toward students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Case study methodology is "an empirical inquiry that: investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
 | Morten Kyng, Lars Mathiassen - Computers - 1997 - 452 pages
...of the case study method that supports a hard approach is the model proposed by Yin: A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary...between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident. In other words, you would use the case study method because you deliberately wanted to cover contextual... | |
 | Allen Lee, Jonathon Liebenau, Janice DeGross - Computers - 1997 - 588 pages
...desire to help me further the research objective I had in mind. According to Yin (1989), a case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident and when multiple sources... | |
 | Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges - Business & Economics - 1997 - 243 pages
...into a resemblance of positivist legitimacy. Just take a glance at the definition: A case study is an empirical inquiry that: • investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when • the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which • multiple... | |
 | Gary Anderson, Gary J. Anderson, Nancy Arsenault - Education - 1998 - 280 pages
...an experimental psychologist. His two part technical definition reads as follows: 1 A case study is an empirical inquiry that • investigates a contemporary...between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident. 2 The case study inquiry • copes with the technically distinctive situation in which there will be... | |
 | Denis Collins - Business & Economics - 1998 - 308 pages
...data collection to empirically examine this new theory. Yin (1987: 23) defines case study analysis as "an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
 | Craig Alan Kridel - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 320 pages
...events, one must confront biography. Comparing Biographical and Case Study Research A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
 | Jonathan Winterton, Ruth Winterton - Business & Economics - 1999 - 328 pages
...be exploratory, descriptive or explanatory, all conform to Yin's (1981) definition of the case smdy as an empirical inquiry that: investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
 | Yu Zhu - China - 1999 - 266 pages
...this study. Yin gives the definition of case study and describes its use as follows. A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
 | Kathleen M. Shaw, James R. Valadez, Robert A. Rhoads - Education - 1999 - 232 pages
...minority students attending community colleges (Rhoads & Valadez, 1996). Case study methodology is "an empirical inquiry that: investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources... | |
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A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident. 
