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Key Features of the Fourth Edition
Highlights each specific research feature through 44 boxed vignettes that feature previously published case studies
Provides methodological insights to show the similarities between case studies and other social science methods
Suggests a three-stage approach to help readers define the initial questions they will consider in their own case study research
Covers new material on human subjects protection, the role of Institutional Review Boards, and the interplay between obtaining IRB approval and the final development of the case study protocol and conduct of a pilot case
Includes an overall graphic of the entire case study research process at the beginning of the book, then highlights the steps in the process through graphics that appear at the outset of all the chapters that follow
Offers in-text learning aids including “tips” that pose key questions and answers at the beginning of each chapter, practical exercises, endnotes, and a new cross-referencing table
Case Study Research, Fourth Edition is ideal for courses in departments of Education, Business and Management, Nursing and Public Health, Public Administration, Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science.
About the Author
Robert K. Yin is President of COSMOS Corporation, an applied research and social science firm. Over the years, COSMOS has successfully completed hundreds of projects for federal agencies, state and local agencies, and private foundations, and most of this book’s applications come from these projects.
Outside of COSMOS, Dr. Yin has assisted numerous other research groups, helping to train their field teams or to design research studies. A recent engagement has been with the United Nations Development Programme, and another assignment has been to provide guidance to assist doctoral students at the University of Copenhagen. Currently, Dr. Yin holds the position of distinguished scholar-in-residence at American University’s School of International Service (Washington, DC). Earlier, he served as Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s research methodology division.
Dr. Yin has authored nearly 100 journal articles and books. His first book on the case study method, Case Study Research: Design and Methods (2009) is in its fourth edition. He has edited two case study anthologies (Yin, 2004; and 2005) and has most recently authored a new text on qualitative research methods (Yin, 2011). Dr. Yin received his B.A. in history from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and his Ph.D. in brain and cognitive sciences from M.I.T.
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This book is a must about case study methodology, as it explains the whole process from beginning to end in the best possible manner. The writing is very clear and informative, and it goes straight to the point all the way through.
To support understanding and appropriation of the method, the various steps of the process are explained in various ways so that the reader has little risk to be left in the dark.
Whatever career stage or sector the reader will be, this book is extremely useful to keep clear about what case study research can do, and should enable to do.
The problem with this book is that it is written from a particular epistemological viewpoint which, importantly, it does not examine. Consequently, not only are many of the arguments it presents simply not applicable to whole areas of social research, but more importantly, that this might not be evident to the reader.
Take the example of 'rigour'.
On p24 Yin states that "Case study designs need to maximize their quality through four critical conditions related to design quality: (a) construct validity, (b) internal validity, (c) external validity, (d) reliability." Later (p40) he argues that "the four tests are common to all social science methods" (p40). Many other texts and many other researchers would contend that this is an inherently positivist perspective which does not represent the values and criteriology that emerge from other epistemological stances. (To explore alternatives I recommend a paper by Tsoukas and chapter by Byrne - see below).
Positivism is all very well, but I feel even positivist research has a duty to be more critically reflexive, even if only in passing.
Refs:
Byrne, D. (2009) Case-Based Methods: why we need them; what they are; how to do them. In: D. Byrne & C. C. Ragin eds. The SAGE handbook of case-based methods. London, SAGE.
Tsoukas, H. (1989) The Validity of Idiographic Research Explanations. The Academy of Management Review, 14 (4), pp.551-561.
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