If a quantitative research by means of administration of questionnaire survey in only one particular organisation, is that considered as case study method?
Any reference that i can refer in this regards?
If you have conducted your research in a single organisation and your research covers behavioural aspects of that organisation then obviously it falls under category of case report
It is a case study if your research questions are about the organization. Usually a case study is very complex aiming to describe the organization in your case as a whole with every thing in it from members to organizational culture etc. Usually you employ many methods and techniques in order to do that.
If you just employed a questionnaire to find out different things about the organisation' members - like opinions, attitudes - you don't have a case study. It is just a research referring to the members of a particular oganization.
I would refer you to this link on "Case study as a research method" by Zaidah Zainal. this is another link that you can use: http://managementhelp.org/evaluatn/casestdy.htm
Basically, a case study is an in depth study of a particular situation rather than a sweeping statistical survey. It is a method used to narrow down a very broad field of research into one easily researchable topic.
Whilst it will not answer a question completely, it will give some indications and allow further elaboration and hypothesis creation on a subject.
The case study research design is also useful for testing whether scientific theories and models actually work in the real world.
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