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Longitudinal Case Study

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.

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Longitudinal Case Study Research

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative

Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. · ISBN 978-1506336169
Pettigrew, A. M. (1990). Longitudinal field research on change: Theory and practice. Organization Science, 1(3), 267–292. · DOI 10.1287/orsc.1.3.267

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