Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Διαχρονική Μελέτη Περίπτωσης	Έρευνα μελέτης περίπτωσης
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1984–1990 (foundational methodological codification)	1984 (seminal codification)
Δημιουργός	Robert K. Yin (case study methodology); Andrew M. Pettigrew (longitudinal field research)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)
Τύπος	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	longitudinal case research, panel case study, repeated case study, temporal case study	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology
Συναφείς	6	5
Σύνοψη	A longitudinal case study is a qualitative research design that combines the in-depth, contextually rich focus of case study methodology with repeated data collection across multiple time points. Rather than capturing a single snapshot, it follows one or a small number of cases — an individual, group, organisation, or programme — over months or years to trace how processes, relationships, and meanings evolve. This design is well suited to questions about how and why things change, not merely what the state of affairs is at one moment.	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.