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Case Study Research: Design and Methods: 005 (Applied Social Research Methods)

By: Robert K. Yin
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
ISBN: 0761925538
ISBN-13: 9780761925538
Released: 18 Feb 2003
RRP: £23.99
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Methodology combined with Practicality - By: geoff.walker@newcastle.gov.uk, 14 Jan 2002
Yin provides an essential baseline for the active researcher using the case study method.
If you are involved in researching live projects then this work is invalauble. Yin's background in case studies of political, social & economic projects of the 1980s still proves useful in the 21st century.
It is not often that one comes across methodological works that are so accessible, informative & directive.
This work can also act as a practical fieldwork guide as it methodiccallly takes you through each step of the process.
Well written with many poignant examples, it is a book I go back to, again & again, thinking...
"Mmmm...I wonder what Yin said about that!".
An essential handbook for the case study researcher - By: , 10 Jan 2001
Yin points out that the case study is too often seen as a "soft option". In fact it requires a broad range of skills which must be used within a structured approach.

This book takes the reader through the key stages of: deciding if the case study approach is appropriate for your research, how to design a case study, how to collect & analyse evidence, & how to compose a Case Study Report.

Written in a clear style with plenty of examples & exercises, this book guides you through the processes involved. Yin provides a rigorous approach which should help the reader counter criticisms of the case study as a methodology which is often seen as inferior to more "scientific" approaches.