Analyzing Case Study Evidence

1275 AnalyzingCaseStudyEvidenceHowto Star t You r Analysis, YourAnalyticChoi ces, and How TheyWorkAN ANALYTIC STRATEGY: MORETHANFAMILIARITYWITHANALYTICTOOLSN eedfor an AnalyticStrate analysisof case Study evidenceis one of the least dev elopedand most diff ic ult aspectsof doi ng case many times, inve stigatorsstart case studieswithouthavingthe foggiestnotion about how the evidenceis to be analyzed(de spite Chapter3 s rec ommendationtha t the analyticapproaches be considered when dev elopingthe ca se Study protocol).Suchinvestigations eas ily becomestalledat the analyticstage; this author hasknowncolleagueswho have simplyignoredtheir case Study data for monthafter month, not knowingwhat to do with the the problem,the expe riencedca se Study inves tig ator is likely toha ve grea t adv antagesove r the no vice at the ana lytic stage. Unlikestatisticalanalysis,ther e are few fi xed formulasor cookbookrecipesto guide the ,muc h dependson an inves tigator sow n style of rigorousempiricalthinking,along with the suffi ci ent presentationof Evidence and ca re ful con -sideration of alternativeinter vest ig ators and espe cially novicesdo continueto searchfor formulas,recipes,or tools, hopingthat familia rit y with the se deviceswill producetheneededanalyticresu lt.

The remainder of this chapter covers the specific analytic techniques, to be used as part of and along with any of the general strategies. The techniques are especially intended to deal with the previously noted problems of developing internal validity and external validity in doing case studies (see Chapter 2).

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