s a research tool. For ease of understanding and clarity the analysis will refer to case studies that involve one person or individual so as not to continually repeat the other single entities on which a case study may focus. A conclusion will address the future use of case studies as a research method.
When doing research the case study method is a way of empirically investigation which “investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context when: The boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources of evidence are used” (Yin, 1992: 123). The case study is limited in the sense that statistical analysis is not practical since the data points have no variance. Yet, the case study should include relevant quantitative data when possible. This limitation can at times prove to be an advantage because the case study is not required to be all-qualitative or al
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