Rosario - Robert Yin (from 2002 to current) is often identified (through citation) as a leading exponent of case study design. He has a newish text out - Case Study Research and Applications - which came out in February 2018 - and I recommend it - as with its previous iterations.

Rosario - Robert Yin (from 2002 to current) is often identified (through citation) as a leading exponent of case study design. He has a newish text out - Case Study Research and Applications - which came out in February 2018 - and I recommend it - as with its previous iterations.

Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989): Building theories from case study research. Academy of Management Review, 14 (4), 532-550.

Yin, R. (2002). Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Sage Publications, Inc, ISBN-10: 0761925538

Taylor, J., Dossick, C., and Garvin, M. (2009). “Constructing Research with Case Studies,” Building a Sustainable Future, Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress, 1469 – 1478, Seattle, Washington.

Barratt, M.; Choi T. Y.; Mei, L. (2011): Qualitative case studies in operations management: Trends, research outcomes, and future research implications. Journal of Operations Management 29 (4), 329-342.

Eisenhardt, K. M.; Graebner, M. E. (2007): Theory building from cases: Opportunities and challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 50 (1), 25-32.

I recommend the most recent edition of Yin because it includes a large amount that was previously published in separate volumes.

Robert K. Yin.

Pamela Baxter and Susan Jack The Qualitative Report 2015 Volume 20, Number 2, Teaching and Learning Article 1, 134-152 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR20/2/yazan1.pdf He talks about all three Yin, Marriam & Stake.

Eisenhartd is also good.

The following publications may further help:

• Baxter, P. and Jack, S. (2008) Qualitative case study methodology: Study design and implementation for novice researchers, The qualitative report, 13, 4, pp. 544-559.
• Dul, J. and Hak, T. (2008) Case Study Methodology in Business Research. Jordan Hill, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
• Gerring, J. (2004) What is a case study and what is it good for?, American political science review, 98, 2, pp. 341-354.
• Hancock, D. R. and Algozzine, B. (2006) Doing case study research: A practical guide for beginning researchers. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Perry, C. (1998) Processes of a case study methodology for postgraduate research in marketing, European Journal of Marketing, 32, 9/10, pp. 785-802.
• Riege, A., M. (2003) Validity and reliability tests in case study research: A literature review with "hands-on" applications for each research phase, Qualitative Market Research, 6, 2, pp. 75-86.
• Tellis, W. M. (1997) Application of a case study methodology, The qualitative report, 3, 3, pp. 1-19.
• Yin, R. K. (1981) The case study crisis: Some answers, Administrative science quarterly, 26, 1, pp. 58-65.
• Zainal, Z. (2007) Case study as a research method, Jurnal Kemanusiaan, 5, 1, pp. 1-6.

Thanks very much everyone. I'm glad to see that I'm already using all of your recommended books. I will have a look at the recommended papers too.

Since I asked this question, I came across with the following paper that discusses the approaches to case study proposed by Yin, Stake and Merriam:

Yazan, B. (2015). Three Approaches to Case Study Methods in Education: Yin, Merriam, and Stake. The Qualitative Report, 20(2), 134-152.

Hi Rosario

Thanks for adding that paper. I hadn't seen it before and will read it.

Doug

I am glad you’re taking ‘case study’ seriously. Unfortunately, most of scholarly works invoking case study don’t dig down the fundamentals. So, you should be using case study because your phenomenon cannot be investigated robustly with the traditional hypothetico-deductive (HD) approach. Ask, what is in this complex space and how are the components interacting, internally and with the boundary? That is a question of physics. It is at this point that I find most of the ‘seminal’ works weak. When you draw in physics, the case for moving away from HD becomes stronger. Further, the epistemology of case study becomes clearer - explication and not deduction. Cf. Article Parsing Competitive Dialogue in Public-Private Partnerships:...

Further, you might want to ponder this introduction: https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-Physics-of-Case-Study

Dear Rosario,

You've got from my colleagues useful suggestions about easy-to-read and easy-to-use textbooks and good highly-cited articles. However, I would advise you to go deeper and look at C.Levi-Strauss "Triste Tropiques" (there are numerous English translations as well as translations into other languages). This is a truly seminal book on case study research.

Thanks very much Igor Gurkov I will have a look!

I highly recomment the following 2 papers : discussing case study research and systematic combining approach

Dubois, A. and Gadde, L.E., 2002. Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research. Journal of Business Research, 55(7), pp.553-560. Dubois, A. and Gadde, L.E., 2014. “Systematic combining”—A decade later. Journal of Business Research, 67(6), pp.1277-1284.

Looks very interesting Ghaith Al-Werikat thank you, I will definitely have a look at them.

Gerring J. 2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp 341-354

Alexander L. George, Andrew Bennett 2005 Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (Belfer Center Studies in International Security).

And also you can use The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.