Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Vol. 5 by Robert K. Yin (Editor)

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Synopsis

The Fourth Edition of Robert K. Yin's bestselling text presents the breadth of the case study method but at a detailed level and serves as a complete portal to the world of case study research.

The Fourth Edition now covers more than 50 case studies, about one-quarter of them not cited in earlier editions, with vignettes of the case studies appearing throughout the text. Similarly, this edition contains numerous citations to the most recent literature. New methodological insights cover the similarities between case studies and other social science methods. The book gives fresh attention to different quantitative analyses as they might be used as parts of case studies and also discusses more fully the use of mixed methods research designs. The Fourth Edition retains two important components in much their same form, from previous editions. The first is the chapter on composing case study research, given the importance yet difficulty of the compositional process. The second is Donald Campbell's insightful foreword.

Key Features

• Provides sound principles of case study research put into practice to identify and suggest solutions to problems commonly encountered when doing case studies
• Contains 44 boxes throughout the book describe real case studies in many different fields. The boxed examples illustrate points made in the text.
• Offers a comprehensive approach to presenting the case study method
• Pays special attention to case study design and analysis.
• Incorporates more pedagogy. For instance, chapter titles are followed with a brief abstract that summarizes the chapter's contents.

IntendedAudience

This text is ideal for students and instructors in the departments of Public Administration, Political Science, Education, Economics, Management and Psychology.

Annotation

Incl. role of theory in doing case studies/program logic models/triangulation as a rationale for evidence/etc.

Biography

Robert K. Yin, Ph.D., serves as Chairman of the Board and CEO of COSMOS Corporation, an applied research and social science firm that has been in operation since 1980. Over the years, COSMOS has successfully completed hundreds of projects for government agencies, private foundations, and other entrepreneurial and non-profit organizations. At COSMOS, Dr. Yin actively leads various research projects, including those in which the case study method is used. He has authored numerous books and peer-reviewed articles, including Case Study Research and Applications of Case Study Research.  In 1998 he founded the "Robert K. Yin Fund" at M.I.T., which supports seminars on brain sciences, as well as other activities related to the advancement of predoctoral students in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.