Multiple case study design

Veena Vohra

Chapter 7 in Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences, 2024, pp 112-130 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter aims to locate the multiple case study design as a powerful research design enabling the rich and detailed study of phenomena in the social world. It attempts to comprehensively present the features, advantages, issues and challenges, with an aim to build understanding about what constitutes the multiple case design. The chapter commences with the suitability and significance of the multiple case design to study complex social phenomena, prevalent in our world today. The chapter examines the type of research questions that can be best addressed through the multiple case study design while discussing various decisions researchers have to engage with as they plan the stages of the multiple case study research. A discussion on issues of trustworthiness and credibility precedes a detailed section on the analytic steps in multiple case study research. The chapter also includes a discussion on approaches to theorize from multiple cases. The chapter aims to address several challenges that novice and seasoned researchers might face while employing the multiple case study design.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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