...chosen for the empirical part of the study is a qualitative multiple-case method. According to Yin, "A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within a real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and...

...Study An example of the case study method that supports a hard approach is the model proposed by Yin: A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident....

...energy on twisting it into a resemblance of positivist legitimacy. Just take a glance at the definition: A case study is an empirical inquiry that: • investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when • the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident;...

...than by a desire to help me further the research objective I had in mind. According to Yin (1989), a case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident and when...

...sind solche einengenden Festlegungen jedoch häufig vorschnell getrofdienansätze in folgender Weise: „A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates...contemporary phenomenon within its real life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and which multiple sources...

...from Yin (1994), an experimental psychologist. His two part technical definition reads as follows: 1 A case study is an empirical inquiry that • investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when • the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly...

...understand educational events, one must confront biography. Comparing Biographical and Case Study Research A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and...

...1928/29). Yin (1989) states that a case study from a research strategy point of view may be defined as an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real life context, when the boundaries between phenomenon and the context are not clearly evident, and in which multiple...

...case study as "an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident" (p. 13). Extensive description of the context in which the case is found is thus characteristic of case studies...

...the purpose of an empirical inquiry is to investigate "a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident" (p. l3l. The nature of the inquiry being made in this study is in keeping with this description, and thus,...