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Case Study Research: Methods and Methodology

Case Study Research: Methods and Methodology

Article Summary

This article is the collaborative scholar-practitioner case study which is about consortium benchmarking. This case study approach joins releveant and rigor research of management. The consortium benchmarking is used in accordance with the authors by academeic researchers and practitioners in the formation of consortium and the highlighting the best practices. The consortium benchmarking consider practitioner as co-researcher, helping research related for both practitioners and academics. The use of variety of comparison approaches and the use of score of sources for the collection of evidence by consortium benchmarking inform the entire process through rigorous research. The authors in this paper has attempted to introduce consortium benchmarking and explain its real world application using a case study, which identifies the nature of innovative suppliers. The authors in this paper demonstrate that how the production of related knowledge is supported by consortium benchmarking, for both practitioners and academics in a rigorous way. The author for the evaluation of the contributions develops an assessment critieria in this study as well as demonstrate practical and theoretical relevance. At last, the authors compared in the study, multi-case research with consortium benchmarking and produced five features either not accounted for or neglected in “traditional” multi-case research.

Ontology and Epistemology

Scientific knowledge only reality shows that have previously constructed as knowable, which is defined as an object. Is self-limited and restricts the possibility of knowing what, yet, cannot be known to exceed those forms of knowledge that enjoy legitimacy. Its institutional control operates throughout the development of research, and reaches both the investigator, determining their options as to what to analyze, specifying what can be known "valid". The so-called "knowledge" is not, then, but the result of a convention in force in the world of science, which is associated generally with its own ontology and epistemology of positivism. However, the latter is but one among the possible forms of knowledge production Should not we reflect, as Hans-Georg Gadamer argues, about the control limits on scientific and technological nature and society, and make those limits truths that must be defended against the modern concept of science?

Because qualitative research is always based on the experience of real life, such an article should not be considered "trash" for the reason that the researchers discuss the cultural aspects, or personal communication with study participants. Rather, researchers need to congratulate you on this. It is important to understand that in qualitative research cannot avoid or control the systematic error due to observation. This is true in situations where conducted participant observation research, but also with other forms of data collection and analysis.

If, for example, a study devoted to the experiences of adults with asthma living in damp and overcrowded rooms, and the impact of housing on health, the data obtained from focus groups and semi-structured interviews will reflect what he believes the researcher, it is important whom he was hired: Department of Thoracic Hospital, Department of Social Work of local government or a group ...